The Dark History of Anti-Gay Innuendo - POLITICO Magaze

Contents:

• WAS DR. DEVON HOOVER GAY? ALL ABOUT HIS DEATH, SEXUALY, AND MORE
• J. EDGAR HOOVER: GAY OR JT A MAN WHO HAS SEX WH MEN?
• THE DARK HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY INNUENDO

WAS DR. DEVON HOOVER GAY? ALL ABOUT HIS DEATH, SEXUALY, AND MORE

1950s: FBI Surveillance of HomosexualsDurg the 1950s the FBI engaged wispread surveillance of the gay world.

Not only did llect om lol vice squads the nam of men arrted on homosexual morals charg; also placed a watch on gay bars and filtrated the Mattache Society and the Dghters of Bilis. " They also saw him visg David's Bar, another gay bs.

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

Late March and early APril Hoover orred agents to terview a woman about Pffie's "homosexual activi. " Offie had once told an FBI rmer, "an admted homosexual, " that "I'd like to sleep wh you. " The homosexual rmer said "Offie is as queer asa a $3 bill" and is "known among the Washgton higher homosexuals as 'one of .

'" A send admted homosexual rmer said Offie "has a reputatn of beg homosexual. " A third homosexual rmer said "Offie is certaly a homosexual. Charl, Hoover's War on Gays: Exposg the FBI's "Sex Deviat" Program (Lexgton: KY: Universy of Kentucky Prs, September 18, 2015), pag 98-102, 119-122, 132, 145-147.

Charl, Hoover's War on Gays, p.

THE DARK HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY INNUENDO

Charl, Hoover's War on Gays, p. See also Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay Amerin History, pp. Charl, Hoover's War on Gays, pp.

CIA director Rose Hillenkoetter, ttifyg to the Hoey Commtee, is said to have livered fabrited ttimony on the vid role of the homosexual spy history. See also: "Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts Government, " 81 Congrs, 2d Ssn, Government Prtg Office, 1950; accsed September 20, 2015 om:. 1951, May: Joseph Bryan II and Rumors of Hoover's HomosexualyThis month Joseph Bryan II, then an agent wh the CIA's psychologil warfare divisn, for some reason received CIA and FBI thorizatn to review the FBI's Obscene File.