Roy Cohn and the AIDS Epidemic

Roy Cohn contracted HIV in 1986, most probably from one of the young men he had brought to him every single day. When it became obvious that Roy was not just sick, but sick with the gay plague, an illness that would irrevocably brand him as a gay man in polite society, Roy turned to his usual tricks. He claimed he had liver cancer, but the world did not believe him. And the rich and powerful men he'd courted and collected all of his life abandoned him, one by one.