Monday, June 16, 2025

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?

 

Roy Cohn and a friend, 1954.



Roy Cohn and a friend, 1978.

You never can tell with The Powers That Be, so please don't let them keep you from celebrating Pride Month.





 



16 comments:

  1. "You can't tell! You just can't tell". An English comedy show I think.

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    1. Andrew, there's a George Barnard Shaw play by that name, but I'm afraid I haven't seen or read it.

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  2. Two of the loathsome Americans until Cohn taught the Orange Menace all he knew.

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    1. Mitchell, as Faulkner once said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past."

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  3. Live and let live. Whatever happened to that simple maxim?

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    1. David, the era we live in now is beginning to seem a lot like the McCarthy Era, and as I said in the post it's Pride Month. Those two things brought Cohn to mind.

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  4. I have no idea who Roy was but had a look on Google.

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  5. I think in his case you could definitely tell! Strange self hating mentality. We don't need to give it mental room, beyond a passing pity.
    Anyway, I'm making chicken, tomato, chickpea soup just now -- you?

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  6. I think it's time his family released the pictures of J. Edgar Hoover.

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    1. You may need a security clearance to see them, Mike.

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  7. In the media, there seems to be a decline of the celebration. I mean you can't trust traditional media but even on socmed too.

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    1. Lux, I was at a suburban Pride event this past Saturday. The place was packed despite it having rained earlier in the day (and there being a parade on some forms of media to watch), so at least that front is still holding steady.

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