• tmyakal@infosec.pub
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    2 months ago

    I’m reminded of one of Roy Cohn’s monologues in Angels in America.

    Your problem is that you are hung up on words, on labels: “gay”, “homosexual”, “lesbian.” You think they tell you who a person sleeps with, but they don’t tell you that. Like all labels, they refer to one thing and one thing only: Where does a person so identified fit in the food chain? In the pecking order. Not ideology or sexual taste, but something much simpler: clout. Who owes me favors. Not who I fuck or who fucks me, but who will pick up the phone when I call. To someone who doesn’t understand this, homosexual is what I am because I sleep with men, but this is wrong. Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. Homosexuals are men who, in 15 years of trying, can’t get a pissant anti-discrimination bill through City Council. They are men who know nobody, and who nobody knows.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      2 months ago

      The real Roy Cohen didn’t consider himself gay, he just liked to sexually dominate young blond men. That was a sign of his masculinity.

      It should be noted that when he mentored Donald Trump and Roger Stone, they were both young blonde men.

      • lechekaflan@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Bastard simply asked boys to drop their pants, then let him ram through, before zipping back and walking away.