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In public, Hoover waged a vendetta against homosexuals and kept "confidential and secret" files on the sex lives of congressmen and s. But privately, according to some biographers, he had numerous trysts with men, including a lifelong affair with Tolson. J. Edgar Hoover - head of the FBI - hammer of gangsters, communists, and LGBT people. Strange, given he was in a lifelong gay relationship.

‘It’s not a movie about two gay guys,” Clint Eastwood barked when GQ asked him if his new movie, “J. Edgar,” out Wednesday, explored its title character’s mysteriously close relationship with. WASHINGTON — A new book contends that former FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover was a homosexual who was blackmailed by the Mafia into denying the existence of organized crime for decades. WASHINGTON - The Mafia blackmailed the late FBI Director J.

Edgar Hoover with photos allegedly showing him engaged in homosexual acts, which effectively delayed a crackdown on organized crime by. Clint Eastwood film leaves question of homosexuality ambiguous. Edgar Hoover led a deeply repressed sexual life, living with his mother until he was 40, awkwardly rejecting the attention of women and pouring his emotional, 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, long, deep kiss. So was the most powerful man in America, who died in -- three years after the Stonewall riots marked the modern gay civil rights movement -- homosexual?

I am agnostic about it. I don't really know and nobody really knew. In public, Hoover waged a vendetta against homosexuals and kept "confidential and secret" files on the sex lives of congressmen and s. But privately, according to some biographers, he had numerous trysts with men, including a lifelong affair with Tolson. Dissociation -- denying homosexuality, but displaying sexual behavior -- is "not uncommon," according to Dr.

Jack Drescher , a New York City psychiatrist who is an expert in gender and sexuality. Men with strong attractions to other men can have different degrees of acceptance from being fully closeted to being openly gay. And even if they are homosexually self-aware, they can embrace it or reject it publicly. Roy Cohn, the lawyer who served as chief counsel to Sen. Joseph McCarthy in his anti-communist campaign of the s and who successfully convicted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of espionage, denied he was gay, despite an attraction to men.

Cohn, who died of AIDS in , was a contemporary of Hoover and according to one biography, the two attended sex parties together in New York in the s. Cohn was characterized in a scene from Tony Kuschner's play, "Angels in America," speaking to his doctor: " You think these are names that tell you who someone sleeps with, but they don't tell you that Hoover's degree of self-awareness may have been the same as Cohn's.

Despite his same-sex dalliances, he occasionally sought a "Mrs. Hoover" and even courted -- albeit uncomfortably -- actress Ginger Rogers' mother and actress Dorothy Lamour. Hoover's neuroses were likely rooted in childhood: He was ashamed of his mentally ill father and was dependent on his morally righteous mother, Annie, well into middle age. Until her death in , Hoover had no social life outside the office.

In the film, Annie chastises her powerful son as he wilted before some of his FBI critics, telling him, "I'd rather have a dead son than a daffodil for a son. In a biography by Richard Hack, "Puppetmaster," which was culled from the notes of Truman Capote, who had begun interviews on Hoover and Tolson's relationship, the author says Hoover was not gay, but suggests the man was vicariously turned on by the smut he collected on others.

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One page secret document was on the extracurricular activities of Capote himself, who was openly gay. Edgar Hoover," said there was no ambiguity about the FBI director's sexual proclivities. Summers collaborated with historians and conducted interviews for the book, including nieces and those who were young enough at the time to have known the man personally.

With interest in the Eastwood film, publishers in the U. One medical expert told Summers that Hoover was "strongly predominant homosexual orientation" and another categorized him as a "bisexual with failed heterosexuality. Hoover often suppressed his urges, but would break out in lapses that could have destroyed him -- alleged orgies in New York City hotels and affairs with teenage boys in a limousine, according to interviews conducted by Summers.

Edgar Hoover, let go on occasion," he said.

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