<Li> Louis Ironson--Prior's boyfriend . Unable to deal with Prior's disease, he ultimately abandons him . He meets Joe Pitt and later begins a relationship with him . </Li> <Li> Harper Pitt--An agoraphobic Mormon housewife with incessant Valium - induced hallucinations . After a revelation from Prior (whom she meets when his heavenly vision and her hallucination cross paths), she discovers that her husband is gay and struggles with it, considering it a betrayal of her marriage . </Li> <Li> Joe Pitt--Harper's husband and a deeply closeted gay Mormon, clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, and friend of Roy Cohn . Joe eventually abandons his wife for a relationship with Louis . Throughout the play, he struggles with his sexual identity . </Li> <Li> Roy Cohn--A closeted gay lawyer, based on real life Roy Cohn . Just as in history, it is eventually revealed that he has contracted HIV and the disease has progressed to AIDS, which he insists is liver cancer to preserve his reputation . </Li>

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