"America has rediscovered itself. Its Sacred Position among nations"- Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner's play Angels in America was set in the 1980s, amid Ronald Reagan's administration. While some argue that, this play is political since we hear a significant amount about Reagan, others contend that his administration has largely been criticized for its negligence toward the AIDS crisis. This is not to say, that Angels in America is not political. On the contrary, numerous LGBT activists have blamed Reagan for overlooking the epidemic since it was thought to be for the most part a disease that primarily affected gay men and African Americans. Many Americans, specifically gay men, passed away before his presidency formally recognized the virus. It has become common today to dismiss after years of research, that globally we acknowledge AIDS is not a Gay disease.
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Moreover, we can make this assertion based on the following quote: In scene 9 page 45 "Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. Homosexuals are men who in fifteen years of trying cannot get a pissant antidiscrimination bill through City Council. Homosexuals are men who know nobody and who nobody knows. Who have zero clout" (Kushner 45). Clearly, you can see his disdain for homosexuals with this quote. This was also indicative of the times that Kushner cleverly manages to inject this type of language into the play using Kohn's Character. Many homosexuals at the time who was in a position of power felt they could not divulge their true sexual preference. Roy refuses to acknowledge that he is homosexual since he imagines that gay men have no power. Furthermore, Roy adores control. He has a great deal of it, and it is his most significant asset. Roy contends that his refusal to be marked a homosexual male is not simply him being elusive or being misleading, it is just simply managing the sign of the