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Spearheaded in part by Roy Cohn who was a gay man himself. He ultimately died of AIDS, but denied his sexuality and HIV status to his death. Roy was also the mentor of Donald Trump. I wish this was just a shameful chapter of American history rather than one that is still being written.
Seeing him suffer in Angels in America is cathartic.
We can only hope that someday Peter Thiel gets to watch his reputation collapse around him while he suffers painfully in a hospital bed and is tormented by the ghosts of those he hurt.
He was an ugly man, but honestly his story just makes me sad. I’m sad he lived in a world where his sexuality was unacceptable. I’m sad he lived such a duplicitous and ruthless life. I’m sad he perpetuated his backwards thinking onto the sitting president, and I’m sad that he died of AIDS like so many others. His patch on the AIDS quilt is a fitting epitaph.