Ah, thanks for reminding me of that! It's one of my favourite plays (although I've just read the script, and later saw the miniseries). Right, there the paradox was portrayed mostly as a ferocious attack on his own weakness - as he put it, to be gay meant to be so ineffectual as to be unable even to pass "a pissant anti-discrimination bill." I wonder how that Roy Cohn would do today, given how much more strength the movement has gathered.