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Sex deviates, J. Edgar Hoover and the HRC: A history of oppression
Last week, The New York Times reported on a terrifying part of the U.S. government's past. The story detailed a program called Sex Deviate, under the direction of FBI top J. Edgar Hoover.
The program sought to identify members of the LGBT people (mostly gay men) and fire them from their government posts. Ironically, J. Edgar Hoover was a confirmed bachelor his entire life, with his only close confidant for 40 years being another confirmed bachelor, to whom he left his estate after he died.
This kind of obsessive hunt for LGBT people is consistently compared to the hunt for communists that also went on in the 1960s. If this doesn't terrify you, I don't recognize what will. It was an all-out attack on those who wanted to live with an "alternate" sexuality. It's a tradition war that the government waged on its retain citizens with little or no proof. Sounds familiar, right?
Hoover became obsessed with trying to fight what he saw as the twin evils of communism and homosexuality, after a "British spy ring that penetrated the Pentagon in the 1940s and preceding 1950s ... were both communists and homosexual
Was J.Edgar Hoover gay? Does it matter?
DrDeth41
OMG, are you like twenty? In the past, people didn’t say.
Right, so are we to assume then, that everyone was gay? Unless they wrote a autobiography, maybe to be published posthumously, or their lover admitted it, we do not know if any one was queer, except back in the ancient days when it was accepted.
The logic here seems to be “Hoover could not and did not admit he was gay= thus he was gay”. Sure he seemed to live an asexual life with a shut companion, but you execute know that a married person with kids, etc could also be male lover, right?
In many parts of the US, homosexual acts were illegal during Hoover’s lifetime. This put him as a PRIME goal for extortion.
Sure, and is there any such evidence of such extortion? Maybe he was a closet nazi, or a commie, or a necrophiliac or into sheep, or an avowed atheist or maybe none of those things. More likely none of them.
There is simply no evidence he was gay.
Acsenray42
The logic here seems to be “Hoover could not and did not accept he was gay= thus he was gay”.
You can’t be serious.
Just_Askin
J. Edgar Hoover: Gay or Just a Man Who Has Sex With Men?
Nov. 16, 2011— -- J. Edgar Hoover led a deeply repressed sexual being, 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, prolonged, deep kiss.
So was the most powerful man in America, who died in 1972 -- three years after the Stonewall riots marked the modern same-sex attracted civil rights movement -- homosexual?
Eastwood admits the bond 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 have 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
Your Job is to Inform the Truth: A Conversation with Edgar Gomez about High-Risk Homosexual
I first learned about High-Risk Homosexual from Edgar Gomez’s tweets. One featured Edgar sashaying down the hall in a peacock-colored bodysuit, another chronicled Edgar’s journey from existence kicked out of lofty school to debuting on TheNew York Times guide list. High-Risk Homosexual strikes back with a necessary counternarrative.
Edgar Gomez (he/she/they) is a Florida-born writer with roots in Nicaragua and Puerto Rico. A graduate of University of California, Riverside’s MFA program, his words have appeared in Poets & Writers, Narratively, Catapult, Lithub, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, and elsewhere online and in output. His memoir, High-Risk Homosexual, was called a “breath of fresh air” by The New York Times.
Gomez’s hilarious, tender, and knowledgeable voice shook me from the page. It was a joy to communicate with them over email. We chatted about self-interrogation, leaning into embarrassment, homosexual fantasies, survival, and acknowledging fear alongside the funny.
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The Rumpus: You launch us into High-Risk Homosexual with a hilarious and genuine critique of “What is a Bo
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