May. 11th, 2004

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People are strange creatures and full of contradictions, some more beautiful than others.

From his Wikipedia entry:

Roy Marcus Cohn (February 20, 1927 - August 2, 1986) was an American lawyer who came to prominence during the investigations by Senator Joseph McCarthy into communism in the government and especially during the Army-McCarthy hearings. He was widely unpopular during his lifetime but he wielded tremendous political power locally.

During his lifetime he denied the rumors that he was gay. He dated Barbara Walters who publicly announced that she thought he was heterosexual. When he died it was initially announced that he had died of liver cancer; in fact he had died of AIDS...

As McCarthy's henchman and chief counsel he was responsible for grilling suspected communists on their own sexual tendencies and on whether other people had "homosexual tendencies". Cohn and McCarthy subpoenaed gay men in the arts and threatened to out them if they did not produce a list of "suspected Communists".


And then I found this (bigger pic here):

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Of all the mysteries, forgiveness might be the strangest.

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