A new film on J. Edgar Hoover is a remr that his persecutn of gay people stroyed thoands of liv and reers.
Contents:
- J. EDGAR HOOVER: GAY OR JT A MAN WHO HAS SEX WH MEN?
- J. EDGAR HOOVER OF THE FBI WAS BOTH BLACK AND GAY? HISTORIANS SPEAK OUT
- J. EDGAR: THE (GAY?) MAN BEHD THE MASK
- JTICE DEPARTMENT ORRED TO RELEASE 1950S GAY 'PURGE' DOCUMENTS
J. EDGAR HOOVER: GAY OR JT A MAN WHO HAS SEX WH MEN?
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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]. "In public, Hoover waged a ventta agast homosexuals and kept "nfintial and secret" fil on the sex liv of ngrsmen and prints.
J. EDGAR HOOVER OF THE FBI WAS BOTH BLACK AND GAY? HISTORIANS SPEAK OUT
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.
J. EDGAR: THE (GAY?) MAN BEHD THE MASK
"Some men do not publicly intify as gay, regardls of their sexual behavr.
JTICE DEPARTMENT ORRED TO RELEASE 1950S GAY 'PURGE' DOCUMENTS
"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.