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2016 Postmortem

GoDawgs

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1. He was a closeted gay man, but a quite public homophobe in the 70s & 80s

Reply to Farmgirl1961 (Original post)

Sun Aug 28, 2016, 02:05 AM

Aug 2016

And especially vicious towards people (mostly gay guys in those days) who had AIDS. Particularly pathetic.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised to hear he was Trumpin' up some trouble on behalf of the Turmeric devil.

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Roy Cohn (closeted homophobe) defended Donald Trump in 1973 civil rights lawsuit [View all] Farmgirl1961 Aug 2016 OP

He was a closeted gay man, but a quite public homophobe in the 70s & 80s GoDawgs Aug 2016 #1

BTW, the known lefty ROBERT BORK was the Attorney General in 1973. You can look it up! winstars Aug 2016 #2

Fun (term used advisedly) fact: Barbara Walters served as Cohn's beard on many occasions. MADem Aug 2016 #3