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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. Clint Eastwood film leaves question of homosexuality ambiguous.

I don't really know and nobody really knew. These rumors were largely based on gay stereotypes and potent US sociocultural influences that dictated gender roles during Hoover’s lifetime. 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.

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Cohn, who died of AIDS inwas a contemporary of Hoover and according to one biography, the two attended sex parties together in New York in the s. 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?

One page secret document was on the extracurricular activities of Capote himself, who was openly gay. Men with strong attractions to other men can have different degrees of acceptance from being fully closeted to being openly gay.

In a interview and in response to Anita Bryant 's anti-gay campaign, she said: "Some of my best friends are homosexual: Everybody knew about J. Edgar Hoover, but he was the best chief the FBI ever had."[]. In public, Hoover waged a vendetta against homosexuals and kept "confidential and secret" files on the sex lives of congressmen and presidents.

I am agnostic about it. 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. Dissociation -- denying homosexuality, but displaying sexual behavior -- is "not uncommon," according to Dr.

Jack Dreschera New York City psychiatrist who is an expert in gender and sexuality. Until her death inHoover had no social life outside the office. 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 edgar, the author says Hoover was not gay, but suggests the man was vicariously turned on by the smut he collected on others.

And even if they are homosexually self-aware, they can embrace it or reject it publicly. 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 Gay degree of self-awareness may have been the same as Cohn's.

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For decades, even during his own directorship, J. Edgar Hoover’s sexuality was the subject of rumors. Despite his same-sex dalliances, he occasionally sought a "Mrs. But privately, according to some biographers, he had numerous trysts with men, including a lifelong affair with Tolson.

J. Edgar Hoover: Gay or Just a Man Who Has Sex With Men? Clint Eastwood film leaves question of homosexuality ambiguous. 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.

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.