New Book Suggts Richard Nixon Had a Gay Affair | LAist

Contents:

• OPN WAS NIXON GAY? NO, BUT THAT DON’T STOP THE MOR L.
• RUMORS SURFACE THAT NIXON WAS GAY
• FET RICHARD NIXON'S GAY LOVER: THIS IS J EDGAR HOOVER'S SECRET LOVE CHILD
• RICHARD NIXON ARGU GAYS ARE 'BORN THAT WAY' IN NEWLY-RELEASED WHE HOE TAP
• NEW BOOK SUGGTS RICHARD NIXON HAD A GAY AFFAIR
• RICHARD NIXON'S ANTI-GAY RANT: FORMER PRINT SLAMS TV SERI, ROMAN RULERS IN 1970S AUD
• WERE LLN AND NIXON GAY? THE ‘HISTORY’ BOOK THAT IS DIVIDG AMERI

OPN WAS NIXON GAY? NO, BUT THAT DON’T STOP THE MOR L.

But gay? Acrdg to a book to be released Tuday, "Nixon's Darkt Secrets, " the former print and his bt iend, Charl "Bebe" Rebozo, had a relatnship of a "possibly homosexual nature. “Was Nixon’s tough-guy attu toward gays jt a ver for his own homosexualy, bisexualy or asexualy?

RUMORS SURFACE THAT NIXON WAS GAY

”The book attempts to buttrs the homosexual allegatn by repeatg mors that the twice-divorced Rebozo, known as a ladi’ man, was gay. Others, evintly, are too good to, the flimsy report of Nixon's "gay affair". When I asked Fulsom about the media reactn, he said that acunts scribg his "explosive revelatns" that Nixon "rried on a sizzlg gay love affair" exaggerated his fdgs, and he admted that, whout any photos showg Nixon and Rebozo flagrante licto, there is "no evince actually happened.

(Summers, the thor who was Fulsom’s source that Nixon pal Rebozo was gay, also dug up this far-fetched tale.

FET RICHARD NIXON'S GAY LOVER: THIS IS J EDGAR HOOVER'S SECRET LOVE CHILD

)Although the Hoover--drag mor has been wily discreded, has nohels entered popular folklore — poetic retributn agast the homophobic G-man whose sex-filled dossiers terrorized Washgton for half a century.

It is no accint that the recent enzy of historil gay "outgs" — whether of Lln or Hoover or Nixon — is takg place when homosexualy has e out of the closet and same-sex marriage has bee a proment part of the legislative agenda many plac.

Now the gay mors are beg draped over Richard Nixon, the dark, homophobic two-term print doomed by the 1972 Watergate the upg b Nixon's Darkt Secrets, former UPI Whe Hoe reporter Don Fulsom, armed wh new eyewns terviews and documents, suggts a shockg "homosexual nature" the relatnship between Nixon and his bt iend Bebe Rebozo, the print's alleged mob bagman who was at Nixon's si when he there is no evince of any sexual enunters—as wh the Hoover mors played out the new Clt Eastwood movie J. For example, Fulsom reveals three stanc of the two men holdg hands, sometim public, one time unr a dner table, somethg Nixon did rarely, if ever, wh wife quot a former Time reporter who scribed a long hand-holdg terlu that led her to scribe the relatnship as "reprsed homosexualy.

RICHARD NIXON ARGU GAYS ARE 'BORN THAT WAY' IN NEWLY-RELEASED WHE HOE TAP

First was ‘FBI director J Edgar Hoover was a secret cross-drser and a closet gay. First was ‘Anti-Communist Senator Joe McCarthy was a reprsed homosexual. ’ Now we have ‘Richard Nixon had a secret homosexual lover.

Why trars on the ro bt markets are actg like a load of adolcent girls 31/07/12 'Whatever tak': Yet aga, the markets fall for the empty words of Euro lears 30/07/12 VIEW FULL ARCHIVE But let’s get back to Print Nixon and the man wh whom he ‘may have had’ a homosexual relatnship. ’ the answer is not that they were closet gay.

Nobody knows if they – or anyone else – are or were ‘secretly’ homosexual. So nobody knows if the three were gay, any more than we n know if the first three married Wtmster policians you n name are ‘secretly gay.

NEW BOOK SUGGTS RICHARD NIXON HAD A GAY AFFAIR

’ All we n say is that their lifetim there was no evince that Nixon, Hoover or McCarthy were homosexual. Anyway, if they were that was their own private bs, not ours: or are the left-wgers makg the charg agast Nixon tryg to say that homosexual activy is as sndalo as rpet-bombg Cambodia? Secret gay lovers?

A basels accatn that he was a ‘secret’ homosexual isn’t one of ’s book jt as a new film about J Edgar Hoover opens the cemas. I hardly have to tell you that the pot of the film is to prent the crime-btg, Commie-spy huntg, FBI chief Hoover, as a reprsed – or perhaps active – homosexual. What the film is dog is leechg onto the famo claims that Hoover was a secret gay who ed to go to parti drsed as a woman.

RICHARD NIXON'S ANTI-GAY RANT: FORMER PRINT SLAMS TV SERI, ROMAN RULERS IN 1970S AUD

The Greek wrer Taki vers this his lumn the January edn of Chronicl, the Amerin paleo-nservative magaze: ‘Twenty years or so after he died, the mour was started about [Hoover’s] cross-drsg gay i by a woman’ – Taki means San Rosentiel, and no you’ve never heard of her – ‘who was known even among her radil circle for her fabritns and Baron Munchsen-like tal. Hoover was openly homophobic, didn’t tst Jews, and was acced of beg a racist durg the civil-rights troubl of the late ‘50s and early ‘60s.

’And boy did Rosenthiel know how to egg-up a smear: she claimed she had seen a man she was sure was Hoover several tim at homosexual i at the Plaza Hotel New York, drsed as woman, wearg a black wig and havg sex wh teenaged boys who were readg the claims are ludicro. But picturg J Edgar as gay, that’s box office.

All I know is that at the time of her early ath she still had the picture of J Edgar hidn away, bee I found , nsirg what is passg as ‘evince’ for the relatnships of right-wgers such as Hoover, here is what we have about Hoover and my mother – and is a lot more solid evince than anyone has that Hoover and Tolson were homosexual, Hoover liked betiful dark haired young women such as Dorothy Lamour. Print Richard Nixon's stance on the gay and lbian muny, among other disclosur.

WERE LLN AND NIXON GAY? THE ‘HISTORY’ BOOK THAT IS DIVIDG AMERI

Let me say somethg before we get off the gay thg. Osr Wil, Aristotle, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, were all homosexuals. Nero, of urse, was, a public way, wh a boy then adds, "By God, I am not gog to have a suatn where we pass along a law ditg, 'Well, now, kids, jt go out and be gay.