Roy Cohn

What you’ve descibed here is something I like to call the Roy Cohn Syndrome: gay people who stay in the closet the better to acquire the power of those opposed to all things gay.

Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Uncle Tom’s Closet 2006

Both men also played Roy Cohn in "Angels in America"—Mr. Abraham on Broadway and Mr. Pacino in a television miniseries.

The Other Shylock Ellen Gamerman 2011

Those whose lives have been touched by the AIDS crisis will well remember how the United States Government tried to avoid even mentioning the word "AIDS" during the Reagan administration even as close personal friends of the President and his wife --like Roy Cohn -- succumbed to the disease.

George Heymont: Speaking Truth to Power George Heymont 2011

Those whose lives have been touched by the AIDS crisis will well remember how the United States Government tried to avoid even mentioning the word "AIDS" during the Reagan administration even as close personal friends of the President and his wife --like Roy Cohn -- succumbed to the disease.

George Heymont: Speaking Truth to Power George Heymont 2011

When Villanova tackle John Sandusky was drafted by Paul Brown to help Cleveland rumble to a string of NFL titles during the Cold War, the most talked about sexual predator wasn't the closet gay commie hunter Roy Cohn but Lavrenti Beria, the feared KGB boss who was assassinated following the death of Stalin.

Eric Ehrmann: Jerry Sandusky's Immaculate Deception... Sex, Lies and Locker Room Horseplay Eric Ehrmann 2011

Hoover's deepening, marriage-like relationship with his hand-reared assistant director Clyde Tolson is intercut with glimpses of canned history – the Palmer raids, the slandering of Dr King, the compromising private files … But no Joe McCarthy nor his ruthless chief counsel Roy Cohn, not enough Nixon and no substantial mention of Cointelpro, the pharaonic, black-propaganda campaign against 1960s civil rights workers and the student left.

J Edgar is a woefully boring movie 2012

The intervening years have also diminished the immediacy of Roy Cohn, who is represented prominently in the play, as a popular figure.

Better Angels of Our Nature Pia Catton 2011

His books include Capitalist Fools: Tales of American Business, from Carnegie to Forbes to the Milken Gang (1992) and Citizen Cohn (1988), a biography of Roy Cohn.

Robert Auerbach: The GAO Must Perform a Diligent Independent Audit of the More Than $2 Trillion Issued By the Fed Robert Auerbach 2010

Unlike, Roy Cohn [the closeted McCarthyite who never in his lifetime spoke openly about his homosexuality], the 43-year old Mehlman found the courage to be honest about his identity with "family, friends, former colleagues and current colleagues [who have] been wonderful and supportive."

Steven Petrow: In Defense of Ken Mehlman: Former GOP Chair Is No Roy Cohn 2010

Unlike, Roy Cohn [the closeted McCarthyite who never in his lifetime spoke openly about his homosexuality], the 43-year old Mehlman found the courage to be honest about his identity with "family, friends, former colleagues and current colleagues [who have] been wonderful and supportive."

Steven Petrow: In Defense of Ken Mehlman: Former GOP Chair Is No Roy Cohn 2010