In this moment it is a black, ex ex drag queen who holds the power over Roy as his nurse and has just stripped Roy of the rights Roy thought were his. “The irascible Cohn and the unflappable Belize achieve a moment of honesty when Belize concedes that Cohn is dying.” (Tuss: “Resurrecting Masculine Spirituality in Tony Kushner's Angels in America”) Belize also gets Roy to concede to the fact that he need AZT, which is Roy admitting he has aids, something he would have never done before this moment. Belize is also the only person to identify Roy as gay to his face. “Consider it solidarity. One faggot to another.” (Kushner 161) Belize’s ability to assign this identity is based in the fact that one, he now has power over Roy as the only person with the medical knowledge that Roy
In this moment it is a black, ex ex drag queen who holds the power over Roy as his nurse and has just stripped Roy of the rights Roy thought were his. “The irascible Cohn and the unflappable Belize achieve a moment of honesty when Belize concedes that Cohn is dying.” (Tuss: “Resurrecting Masculine Spirituality in Tony Kushner's Angels in America”) Belize also gets Roy to concede to the fact that he need AZT, which is Roy admitting he has aids, something he would have never done before this moment. Belize is also the only person to identify Roy as gay to his face. “Consider it solidarity. One faggot to another.” (Kushner 161) Belize’s ability to assign this identity is based in the fact that one, he now has power over Roy as the only person with the medical knowledge that Roy