Angels in America | Louis Ironson

Louis is a word processor for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York and the lover of first Prior then Joe. He is a semi-closeted homosexual, openly gay around his friends but reserved and "butch," as Prior describes his exaggerated macho behavior around his family and co-workers. Louis's political ideology, religion, and philosophy of life seem as complicated as his sexual identity. In the course of the play he claims that God and angels don't exist but later finds himself saying the Jewish prayer for the dead in Hebrew over the body of Cohn. He detests bigots and hypocrisy and...

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