J. Edgar Hoover comes out of the closet

What if J. Edgar Hoover publicly admitted to being a homosexual and stated publicly that discrimination against homosexuals bred crime by creating an underworld of such people and endangered national security by the threat of blackmail against homosexuals in government? Could he have help bring gay rights to the forefrom in the 1950s or early 1960s?
Bonus: What if he publicly admitted to buttfucking his assistant?
 
What if J. Edgar Hoover publicly admitted to being a homosexual and stated publicly that discrimination against homosexuals bred crime by creating an underworld of such people and endangered national security by the threat of blackmail against homosexuals in government? Could he have help bring gay rights to the forefrom in the 1950s or early 1960s?
Bonus: What if he publicly admitted to buttfucking his assistant?

hell would freeze over first. Hoover was driven by self-hate based off of homophobia, him coming out.... end of the world! he'd be fired on the spot, and sent to a Nut house, and if he said he'd had gay sex, well jail time for Hoover
 
IIRC, there's never been presented any credible evidence that Hoover WAS homosexual...

But if so, then yes, he's kicked and probably locked up, leaving the country more vulnerable without his leadership of the Bureau.
 
It would be highly improbable and in any case weren't the mob blackmailing him from quite early on which is why the FBI didn't do much to tackle organised crime. Capone was broken by prohibition agents not the FBI. Having gained a hold on most major politicians by gaining information about their private lives for largely straight sex, he would hardly blow it all to come out. Lyndon Johnson said prefered Hoover on the inside of the tent pissing out than on the outside pissing in when he was asked why he didn't fire Hoover. Once he came out it weould probably have been easy to fire him and the general consensus about Hoover long before the innuendos started appearing is that America would have been a better place without him
 
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