I will not even pretend to grasp the subtleties of the entire play, and admit to not understanding much of its political and social context. But none of these factors prevented me from enjoying this human drama that spoke directly to me even when I wasn't sure what it was saying. The play Angels in America, to me, dealt with homophobia, intolerance, view points of identity, tradition and heritage, prejudice and stigma, and AIDS. These caused the main characters many problems and pressure to be something they weren't.
Roy Cohn had an interesting line. He said that even though he had sex with men that did not make him a homosexual. He did not identify himself with a homosexual because he felt he was too powerful to be considered that. To him, homosexuals were weak and unimportant, which is something he didn't want to identify with. So, that makes him refuse the diagnosis of AIDS, since it is related to homosexuals, and chose to say he had liver cancer instead.
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