‘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.
Contents:
- J. EDGAR HOOVER: GAY OR JT A MAN WHO HAS SEX WH MEN?
- J. EDGAR: THE (GAY?) MAN BEHD THE MASK
- J. EDGAR HOOVER OF THE FBI WAS BOTH BLACK AND GAY? HISTORIANS SPEAK OUT
- I SAW J. EDGAR AND I HAVE THE GAY DETAILS!
J. EDGAR HOOVER: GAY OR JT A MAN WHO HAS SEX WH MEN?
A new film on J. Edgar Hoover is a remr that his persecutn of gay people stroyed thoands of liv and reers. * j edgar was gay *
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?
J. EDGAR: THE (GAY?) MAN BEHD THE MASK
"He might have been [gay].
J. EDGAR HOOVER OF THE FBI WAS BOTH BLACK AND GAY? HISTORIANS SPEAK OUT
"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. 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.
I SAW J. EDGAR AND I HAVE THE GAY DETAILS!
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