Moira Donegan
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434 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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And this also extends, by the way, from the Red Scare to what we now colloquially refer to as
the lavender scare, where people working, particularly in the State Department, who are suspected of being gay, were dragged in front of these committees and interrogated about their personal lives.
You're like the third person who's told me to watch Fellow Travelers.
I have to get on.
My brother out there, my twin, he's somewhere in the ether.
But you know, Roy Cohn goes on to be a lawyer, but really a power broker, doing favors.
He's a fixer.
And he is also...
all but openly gay and this goes all the way back to when he was working for joseph mccarthy right he went at one point on a tour of american embassies in europe to get uh subversive books out of their libraries and he took his boyfriend with them and they had like a little like trip to italy and then they would you know purge all the seditious books like a really like twisted sex weekend right like the worst couple you know and he you know wasn't exactly
in the closet.
People talk about going over to Roy Cohn's townhouse in Manhattan in the 1970s, and it being full of very beautiful young men in various states of undress.
Oh, that's funny.
Yeah.
You know, so I think what's really interesting about the closet is that we can historicize it and it functioned this way for a lot of people, still does function this way for a lot of people as a state of like defensiveness and fear.
I think for Roy Cohn, that's not really true.
Eventually, he had enough money, enough power, enough ability to strike fear into people that the closet, such as it was, became just an extension of his own power.
He was living, for all intents and purposes, an openly gay life, but he had this pretext of plausible deniability, which functionally amounted to, I dare you to say something.
You know?
That was something Roger Stone said after Roy Cohn died.
I think it really does get to the contradiction that you're pointing to, right?
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