New HBO docs shed light on Roy Cohn, plight of gays in Chechnya
(World News Russia)

President and in the Oval Office in 1983. (photo courtesy HBO via White House Reagan Photographic Office Collection) Pride month is over, but there`s still goodies to be enjoyed such as two somber new documentaries from HBO. One reminds us that despite recent victories in the U.S., there is still much to be protect the lives of LGBT people around the globe. The other revisits the career of Roy Cohn, the controversial closeted gay lawyer who played a pivotal behind-the-scenes role in shaping right-wing politics in this country from the 1950s to the present. reexamines the well-known highlights of Cohn`s career. In 1951, the 24-year-old Cohn served as a prosecutor for the espionage trial of...