WI: J. Edgar Hoover's homosexuality exposed

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What if at some point during his career, knowledge became public that Hoover was gay?

I know it wasn't confirm but let's say all the rumors are true. He had an affair with his deputy director along with cross dressing. It becomes public with photos and confessions.

Does Hoover resign? Would he be fired? Or would a sitting US President still be too scared to fire him. What happens to his extensive collection of blackmail? And would the public reaction be different in different eras.

-1920s/prohibition
-1930s/Great Depression
-WWII
-1950s/redscare
-civil rights era
-late career
 
I don't think Hoover would order an accident on him outright. Any actual crimminals mind find they can get away with any attempts to kill him have their cases vanish from investigation
 
In the man's own words, "a man doesn't have much in the way of morality unless he is scared of someone, I gave them somebody to be scared of. g
 
I'm more than a little surprised the KGB didn't find out, or if they did know but chose to not use it.

There's one theory that they knew but nobody considered them a credible source.

Meyer Lansky was rumored to have pictures, and according to that theory he used them to keep the feds off of himself and his associates.

Another theory is that it was just rumor. Someone published an unflattering biography a few years ago, and the author believed it was just rumors. According to the bio, Hoover's companion was Dorothy Lamour.
 

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I'm more than a little surprised the KGB didn't find out, or if they did know but chose to not use it.
Meh, Hoover and the FBI was always 100% domestic that didn't effect the Soviets. Yeah they arrested their spies and informants, but no matter the leverage any FBI director will do that. The Soviets main threat was the CIA
 
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/edgar-hoover-sex-men-homosexual/story?id=14948447

The 2011 movie with Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar showed him having perhaps a homo-romantic relationship with Clyde.

This article is saying Edgar was very repressed, perhaps occasionally busting loose. I myself would even put forward the idea that he was largely asexual at least as far as regular physical contact.

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And J. Edgar was a disaster on civil rights, and did a piss-poor job regarding the mob.
 
I don't think Hoover would order an accident on him outright. Any actual crimminals mind find they can get away with any attempts to kill him have their cases vanish from investigation

He had no trouble lying about Ma Barker to explain her execution to the press, I see him having no qualms about doing it again...
 
That would mean civil right era would be lot funnier. Because as the stonewall incident rages on, gay right will be more of an issue in 1960-70s.
 
It is debatable that Hoover was a homosexual at all. It is mired in tabloid history, and linked to the idea that he was a cross-dresser, which is wholly a lie. You have to remember that older people can lie too, and many of them clearly did when relating their personal accounts where they never really had those experiences. Namely, the woman who said Hoover came to the door wearing a dress and called himself Mary. I also think it gets mired in the ulterior motive that we want the irony and scandal and hypocrisy, because Hoover was such a bastard. However, let us assume that Hoover was a homosexual for the discussion. But I wanted to make that point.
 

Wallet

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It is debatable that Hoover was a homosexual at all. It is mired in tabloid history, and linked to the idea that he was a cross-dresser, which is wholly a lie. You have to remember that older people can lie too, and many of them clearly did when relating their personal accounts where they never really had those experiences. Namely, the woman who said Hoover came to the door wearing a dress and called himself Mary. I also think it gets mired in the ulterior motive that we want the irony and scandal and hypocrisy, because Hoover was such a bastard. However, let us assume that Hoover was a homosexual for the discussion. But I wanted to make that point.
We don't know if Hoover was gay. But for the discussion let's assume he was and was also exposed
 
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