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Was J. Edgar Hoover gay?

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The Straight Dope on J. Edgar Hoover's legendary transvestism:

In a 1993 Esquire article, journalist Peter Maas wrote that Susan Rosenstiel, the sole source of the cross-dressing allegations, had "been trying to peddle this story for years," apparently because she believed Hoover had put FBI agents on her tail to help her husband during their divorce. According to Ronald Kessler, author of The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI (2002), Ms. Rosenstiel did jail time for perjury in connection with a 1971 case.

That G-Man #1 was gay is improvable but TSD says:

Today some gay activists include Hoover and Tolson in their pantheons of famous gay couples

Now, I personally have never met one of these queer Hoover fans. I prefer to think that Hoover was 100% heterosexual. You guys keep him in your camp. We don't need him.

Was J. Edgar Hoover a cross-dresser?

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