That Roy M. Cohn knew himself to be gay — and therefore to be engaged in covert criminal activity — from an early age seems certain. But in his public life, even in the 1980s, when it would not have mattered very much, he never presented himself as anything other than a straight man who appeared at social events with beautiful starlets or socialites on his arm. His friend the New York Times journalist Sidney Zion wrote that “Roy lived in a closet that was the oddest in history—a closet with neon lights—but he maintained it fiercely.”
~ Fintan O’Toole via The New York Review of Books

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