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J. Edgar Hoover: Same-sex attracted or Just a Man Who Has Sex With Men?
Nov. 16, 2011— -- J. Edgar Hoover led a deeply repressed sexual experience, living with his mother until he was 40, awkwardly rejecting the attention of women and pouring his sentimental, and at times, physical attention on his handsome deputy at the FBI, according to the new movie, "J. Edgar," directed by Clint Eastwood.
Filmgoers never see the decades-long romance between the former FBI director, and his number two, Clyde Tolson, consummated, but there's plenty of loving glances, hand-holding and one scene with an aggressive, drawn-out, deep kiss.
So was the most forceful man in America, who died in 1972 -- three years after the Stonewall riots marked the modern lgbtq+ civil rights movement -- homosexual?
Eastwood admits the relationship between Hoover, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and Clyde Tolson, played by Armie Hammer, is ambiguous.
"He was a man of mystery," he told ABC's "Good Morning America" last week. "He might acquire been [gay]. I am agnostic about it. I don't really know and nobody really knew."
In public, Hoover waged a vendetta against homosexuals and kep
Behind Closed Doors: 10 Secrets of FBI Supremo J. Edgar Hoover
4. The Lindbergh baby kidnapping (1932)
Hoover is widely credited with turning the FBI into a contemporary crime-fighting agency with a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories. The improvements burnished the Bureau's reputation after the 1932 kidnapping/murder of 20-month-old Charles Lindbergh Jr, son of the famous aviator. The boy was found in a shallow grave not far from Lindbergh's New Jersey estate and local police were accused of bungling. President Herbert Hoover ordered the FBI to operate as a clearinghouse for intelligence and its new crime laboratory played a pivotal role in the arrest of kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann. Hauptmann’s conviction turned on the comparison of his handwriting to the ransom note - an analysis made possible by the Bureau’s renowned Laboratory.
5. Nature War II (1939-1945)
As WWII approached, the FBI shifted to counterintelligence and arresting spies. The Bureau was already profiling the Communist Party, the German-American Bund, and many others. Hoover assured Americans that civil liberties abuses like the Palmer Raids and German internment were
Hoover is a conflicted, flawed human in new biography
‘G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century’
By Beverly Gage
c.2022, Viking
$45/837 pages
“We’re sorry we can’t be in the front row to hiss — no kiss you,” two fans wrote in a telegram to Ethel Merman in the 1930s when they couldn’t produce the opening of one of her shows.
The Merman friends were J. Edgar Hoover and his “right-hand man” Clyde Tolson.
“G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century” by Yale historian Beverly Gage is the first biography of Hoover to appear in 30 years. Gage has done the unimaginable. She makes you want to scan about J. Edgar Hoover. “G-Man” won’t make you wish you were one of Hoover’s BFFs. It’ll compel you to glimpse Hoover, not as a villainous caricature, but as a conflicted, flawed human being.
“G-Man” is not only a fascinating bio of Hoover, who directed the FBI from 1924 until the day he died on May 2, 1972 at age 77. It’s a page-turning history of the United States in the 20th century.
Hoover, who played a key role in the “lavender scare” of the 1950s, hated and harassed Martin Luther King, Jr. and engaged in an anti-Communist crusade, has “emer
Hoover's FBI
J. Edgar Hoover had long been obsessed with moral issues, using sex crime panics and anti-obscenity campaigns to burnish the FBI’s reputation with the public. He helped to protect his position and amplify his powers as head of the FBI by keeping secret files on the sex lives of politicians, including allegations of homosexuality; for example, the only card from that file that was not destroyed after Hoover’s death is one on two-time Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson, detailing rumors that he had been arrested for queer activity. Beginning in 1951, he maintained a formal “sex deviates” program that, as one of its activities, would contact the Civil Service Commission or other government agencies with the names of suspected homosexuals, leading to their dismissal.
In addition to these activities, Hoover’s FBI spied on a wide variety of domestic organizations, spying that only began to be revealed shortly before Hoover’s death in 1972, as a result of a break-in to FBI offices in Media, Pennsylvania. The FBI’s surveillance included the Mattachine Society, which they initially suspected of being a Communist front entity. They would att