A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

I've been reading Tony Kushner's play Angels in America. It's a self described "gay fantasia on national themes." I don't know how many of you have read the play, but there is a fascinating part in it where Roy Cohn, a very successful political figure in Washington as a part of the judicial system, is told by his doctor that he has AIDS. Roy knows what effect this would have on his political career. His doctor knows he is not a drug addict, and knows from previous treatment of Roy that he has had other sexually transmitted diseases common to gay men. Roy admits he sleeps with men, but he says "I am not a homosexual. Because a homosexual is not someone who sleeps with men. A homosexual is someone who in 15 years can't get a pittance ordinance passed through city hall."

Roy defines sexuality in the same way he sees the world - through power. And to Roy, in Washington in the early 90s, homosexuals have no power, and he is powerful, so he is not a homosexual. The play, like most great plays, doesn't pass judgment on Roy's world view, only lets him act on it to it's emotional and logical conclusion. But what do you guys think? Isn't there actually some logic to the power dynamics of your sexual preference? Would America ever elect a gay president? Is there an inherent association in Washington of weakness to same sex preference? There certainly was at one point.

Thoughts?