The Washington Post recently dismissed that account because of a discredited source, but Summers maintains he had two other independent sources from different periods in Hoover's life. One short scene in the film showed the FBI director in anguish over his mother's death, putting on her dress and beads, a nod to Summers expose that Hoover had been a cross-dresser. Hoover as a Cross-Dresser Is Controversial Edgar Hoover, let go on occasion," he said. "He was a sadly repressed individual, but most people, even J.
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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. One medical expert told Summers that Hoover was "strongly predominant homosexual orientation" and another categorized him as a "bisexual with failed heterosexuality." and in Britain are issuing a remake of the book. With interest in the Eastwood film, publishers in the U.S. "We were able to get a close view of the man as an individual and as a human being - as close as anybody who had not been afraid of him since he died," said Summers. Summers collaborated with historians and conducted 800 interviews for the book, including nieces and those who were young enough at the time to have known the man personally. "What does Clint Eastwood know about it?" he asked. Edgar Hoover," said there was no ambiguity about the FBI director's sexual proclivities. One 200-page secret document was on the extracurricular activities of Capote himself, who was openly gay.īut Anthony Summers, who exposed the secret sex life of Hoover in his 1993 book, "Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. In a 2004 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. 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." Until her death in 1938, Hoover had no social life outside the office. 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. Hoover" and even courted - albeit uncomfortably - actress Ginger Rogers' mother and actress Dorothy Lamour. Despite his same-sex dalliances, he occasionally sought a "Mrs. Hoover's degree of self-awareness may have been the same as Cohn's.
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Roy Cohn is a heterosexual man, Henry, who f****s around with guys." You think these are names that tell you who someone sleeps with, but they don't tell you that. Joseph McCarthy in his anti-communist campaign of the 1950s and who successfully convicted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of espionage, denied he was gay, despite an attraction to men.Ĭohn, who died of AIDS in 1986, was a contemporary of Hoover and according to one biography, the two attended sex parties together in New York in the 1950s.Ĭohn was characterized in a scene from Tony Kuschner's play, "Angels in America," speaking to his doctor: ".you are hung up on words, on labels, that you believe they mean what they seem to mean. Roy Cohn, the lawyer who served as chief counsel to Sen. I don't really know and nobody really knew." "He was a man of mystery," he told ABC's "Good Morning America" last week.
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So was the most powerful man in America, who died in 1972 - three years after the Stonewall riots marked the modern gay civil rights movement - homosexual?Įastwood admits the relationship between Hoover, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and Clyde Tolson, played by Armie Hammer, is ambiguous. Edgar," directed by Clint Eastwood.įilmgoers 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.