Roy Cohn is not a homosexual - Angels in America (Part 1)

this is a monologue from angels in America AIDS huh your problem Henry is that you hung up on words on labels that you believe they mean what they seem to mean AIDS homosexual gay lesbian you think these are words that tell you who someone sleeps with they don't tell you that no like all labels they tell you one thing and one thing only where does an individual so identified F in the food chain in the pecking order not ideology or sexual taste but something much much simpler Clouts not who I have sex with but who will pick up the phone when I call who owes me favors now to someone who does not understand this homosexual is what I am because I have sex with men really this is wrong homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men homosexuals are men who in 15 years of trying can't pass a piss and anti-discrimination Bill through city council homosexuals are men who know nobody and who nobody knows who have zero Clouts does this sound like me Henry no I have clout and a lot of it at that I don't want you to be impressed I want want you to understand this is not sopis and this is not hypocrisy this is reality I have sex with men but unlike nearly every other man of whom this is true I bring the guy I'm screwing into the White House and President Reagan Smiles us and shakes his hand because what I am is defined entirely by who I am Roy con is not a homosexual Roy con is a heterosexual man Henry who has sex with guys so no Henry no AIDS is what homosexuals have I have let's call it liver cancer