With Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on the tickets, the 2020 election has become a battle royale between the political legacies of two of the most important figures in LGBT+ history.
What many don’t realize is that, decades after their deaths, Roy Cohn and Harvey Milk are clashing one last, improbable time on this year’s ballots.
Candidates with direct ties to them are now competing for the White House. When Donald Trump was a young man, he turned for political advice to Roy Cohn – a gay man reviled by the LGBT+ community for his anti-gay record and his ties to far-right politicians.
Democratic vice president candidate Kamala Harris has her own, very different, ties at the heart of 20th century LGBT+ history.