I’ve read were the “J. Edgar Hoover is gay” rumor was started by the KGB to discredit Hoover.
I’ve read that also. The cross-dressing stories aside, the fact that he was never married and had a male life friend from whom he was nearly inseparable, who inherited his house, and was buried a few feet from him seems to indicate that at the least he was asexual and at the most a closeted homosexual.
Not true at all. My uncle worked in the FBI and for Hoover during those years and said none of that was true.
I believed him (he’s dead now)
Indeed, this is an old KGB smear. Unfortunately, this Big Lie has been repeated over and over so often that many people now believe it.
Research the interview with LBJ’s mistress, Madeleine Duncan Brown, about the JFK assassination. It’s long but extremely revealing and interesting. A small part of it is her contention that it was well known among the Texas oil/political crowd that Hoover was absolutely gay. She even references his ‘vacations’ with another well-known queer.