Moira Donegan

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434 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 24 Jul

Moira Donegan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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if being gay is being in a subordinate position, that is not something Roy Cohn was doing.

You define gay in sort of homophobic, patriarchal, bigoted terms, and you accept that, then what you're doing is not being gay.

What you're doing is having a sex life.

However, I think it's important for our dear listeners to know Roy Cohn died in 1986 of AIDS.

Yeah.

So you could define yourself...

Outside of the gay community, you can say those people are not my people.

Those people are not my equals.

Those people are not my peers.

Those people are not my comrades.

Right.

But the political structures that are marginalizing those people can come for you, too.

You don't actually just get to sort of define your way out of that.

Yeah, you know, Roy Cohn seemed often to be having fun with the closet, right?

If he made the closet an extension of his own power, you could sometimes see him delighting in it.

I don't think you have to give Roy Cohn any credit as a person.

Or absolve anything.

You don't have to hand it to him.

But he was funny, and he was clearly sort of enjoying...

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