‘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?
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"He might have been [gay].
UNIQUELY NASTY: J. EDGAR HOOVER'S WAR ON GAYS
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