Editing Angels in America (section)

=== Main characters ===
* '''Prior Walter''' – A gay man with [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]]. Throughout the play, he experiences various heavenly visions. When the play begins, he is dating Louis Ironson. His best friend is Belize.
* '''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.
* '''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, Joe, is gay and struggles with it, considering it a betrayal of her marriage.
* '''Joe Pitt''' – Harper's husband and a deeply closeted gay Mormon, clerk at the [[United States courts of appeals|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]].
* '''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.
* '''Hannah Pitt''' – Joe's mother. She moves to New York after her son drunkenly [[coming out|comes out]] to her on the phone. She arrives to find that Joe has abandoned his wife.
* '''Belize''' – A nurse and former [[drag queen]], he is Prior's ex-boyfriend and best friend. He later becomes Roy Cohn's nurse.
* '''The Angel/Voice''' – A messenger from Heaven who visits Prior and tells him he is a prophet.