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9 lut 2018 · But was he a “cross-dresser”? Potter argues that the cross-dressing rumor was most significant for what it reveals about the nature of gossip. Hoover was a man feared and loathed by many for his abuses of power. Homophobia became a powerful tool for attacking him.
That Hoover was a cross-dresser is now largely presumed to be fact even by sophisticated people. (Click here to see a cartoon by Pat Oliphant depicting Hoover in a dress.)
The rumors about Hoover's sexuality predate the cross-dressing claim by decades (including rumors spread literally by the Soviets in the 1960s). It's a complicated subject where credible people have disagreed.
6 gru 2002 · The cross-dressing thing, however, is a definite no. The story appears in Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover (1993), a gossipy biography by British journalist Anthony Summers, who has also written a JFK assassination conspiracy book.
In his biography Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover (1993), journalist Anthony Summers quoted Rosenstiel's fourth wife, Susan, as claiming to have seen Hoover engaging in cross-dressing in the 1950s at all-male parties at the Plaza Hotel with Rosenstiel, attorney Roy Cohn, and young male prostitutes.
11 lis 2011 · The cross-dressing story is “a fabrication concocted by Susan Rosenstiel, who had served time in prison for perjury,” Kessler wrote, noting that FBI protective agents followed Hoover just ...
9 lis 2011 · 1. Hoover was a gay cross-dresser. Despite rampant speculation — that Hoover was gay, a cross-dresser or had no sex life — the truth about his sex life is nearly impossible to pin down....
