‘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?
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.
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UNIQUELY NASTY: J. EDGAR HOOVER'S WAR ON GAYS
"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. "In a 2004 bgraphy by Richard Hack, "Puppetmaster, " which was culled om the not of Tman Capote, who had begun terviews on Hoover and Tolson's relatnship, the thor says Hoover was not gay, but suggts the man was virly turned on by the smut he llected on 200-page secret document was on the extracurricular activi of Capote himself, who was openly Anthony Summers, who exposed the secret sex life of Hoover his 1993 book, "Official and Confintial: The Secret Life of J.