OMG IDK if everyone here gets the Roy Cohn joke in this. Yâall might be too young, or unlearned, and that is ok, but itâs time to learn some gay history. Roy Cohn was known for being a bad man. He was Donald Trumpâs Lawyer, but he had MANY even more prominent roles to be remembered.
Roy Cohn was a lawyer in the McCarthy Hearings accusing people of being communists during the red scare 2 electric boogaloo. He was one of the most despicable lawyers I have ever heard of, and he helped the government bully an amazing amount of people. They were convicted of being treasonous if found guilty of being communists or communist sympathizers/etc.
They targeted liberals, gays, etc. And Roy Cohn secretly fucked men, while making it his lifeâs work condemning people who would have saved him if the roles were reversed. His life wasnât all glamour, but he REALLY played the wrong side.
Roy Cohn helped get RAEGAN elected in the first place, to champion his fight against the gays.
Eventually his train would kick him off though, as he got DISBARRED for being a scumbag who did shit like physically forcing people to sign documents.(among other BS) He lost everything, and it was quite the scandal.
Then they figured out he had AIDS when he had to seek treatment, and he died of related complications soon after1. He had been hiding it as long as he could. Him dying of aids was a BIG deal, because if someone regarded by republicans as so influential and mighty for their cause could have been a filthy homosexual the whole time, why then ANYONE could be gay. It was almost as if some people were BORN that way. WHOA. They had never really given that idea any thought, and many of them still deny it. It didnât save the gay community form the aids crisis, not at all. But it DID play a part RUINING Roy Cohnâs name just before he died of a disease that was disproportionately stigmatized at the time.
So when you see Roy Cohn with a communist flag, itâs a big part FUCK YOU ROY COHN YOU LITERAL OOZING PUSTULE OF A HUMAN BEING, and a little part, YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE FOR US ROY COHN YOU STUPID PILE OF SHIT, and a little part, YOU WERE ONE OF US EVEN IF YOU DENIED IT AND YOU COULD HAVE HAD A HOME WITH US IF YOU HADNâT BEEN AN ABSOLUTE SACK OF GARBAGE ROY COHN.
Because in the end, Roy Cohn was a gay man who let himself become the scourge of his own people. He spent his life unhappy, both being bullied, and bullying others even harder. And if he had stayed true to his heart and been openly gay, OR EVEN JUST NOT OUTWARDLY ANTI GAY, he not only may have found a better life, but he would have saved the lives of countless people who were condemned due to his championing of hate.
This has been a lesson in history some of us let be forgotten.
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