‘J. Edgar,’ the new movie about J. Edgar Hoover, argu that the FBI chief was gay, but was he also black?THE ROOT D.C. | There is yet another skeleton poundg on the closet to be let out.
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- 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 HOOVER: GAY OR JT A MAN WHO HAS SEX WH MEN?
Hoover was a gay cross-drser. Dpe rampant speculatn — that Hoover was gay, a cross-drser or had no sex life — the tth about his sex life is nearly impossible to p down. He lived an era when beg outed as gay would st anyone his reer and reputatn, and he was not one to risk such story that Hoover, a lifelong bachelor, participated cross-drsg, all-male sex parti New York hotel rooms, as reported by Brish wrer Anthony Summers a 1993 bgraphy, has been wily bunked by historians.
The story’s source, the wife of a bsman and Hoover nfidante, had a gdge om a ntted divorce, and other vtigatns of the story me up Hoover did have a gay relatnship, most likely was wh his longtime FBI associate director, Cly Tolson, another lifelong bachelor — but even this is disputed.
J. EDGAR HOOVER OF THE FBI WAS BOTH BLACK AND GAY? HISTORIANS SPEAK OUT
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.
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. "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.