Love and ath: The legacy of Congrsnal Cemetery’s ‘Gay Corner’ - The Washgton Post

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A new film on J. Edgar Hoover is a remr that his persecutn of gay people stroyed thoands of liv and reers.

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J. EDGAR HOOVER: GAY OR JT A MAN WHO HAS SEX WH MEN?

Filmgoers never see the s-long romance between the former FBI director, and his number two, Cly Tolson, nsummated, but there's plenty of lovg glanc, hand-holdg and one scene wh an aggrsive, long, ep was the most powerful man Ameri, who died 1972 -- three years after the Stonewall rts marked the morn gay civil rights movement -- homosexual? "He might have been [gay].

FBI DIRECTOR J. EDGAR HOOVER, ALLEGED GAY LOVER CLY TOLSON, ENJOYED VIS WH NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST

"In public, Hoover waged a ventta agast homosexuals and kept "nfintial and secret" fil on the sex liv of ngrsmen and prints.

Dissociatn -- nyg homosexualy, but displayg sexual behavr -- is "not unmon, " acrdg to Dr. Jack Drcher, a New York Cy psychiatrist who is an expert genr and wh strong attractns to other men n have different gre of acceptance om beg fully closeted to beg openly gay. And even if they are homosexually self-aware, they n embrace or reject publicly.

LOVE AND ATH: THE LEGACY OF CONGRSNAL CEMETERY’S ‘GAY CORNER’

"Some men do not publicly intify as gay, regardls of their sexual behavr. "Even the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn (CDC) tracks a group that is not labeled "gay" but "men who have sex wh men. Joseph McCarthy his anti-munist mpaign of the 1950s and who succsfully nvicted Juli and Ethel Rosenberg of pnage, nied he was gay, spe an attractn to, who died of AIDS 1986, was a ntemporary of Hoover and acrdg to one bgraphy, the two attend sex parti together New York the was characterized a scene om Tony Kchner's play, "Angels Ameri, " speakg to his doctor: "..

Homosexual. Gay.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* CLYDE TOLSON GAY

Love and ath: The legacy of Congrsnal Cemetery’s ‘Gay Corner’ - The Washgton Post.

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