FBI agents upset over movie alleging J. Edgar Hoover was gay

[steve2470]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/fbi-agents-upset-over-movie-alleging-j-edgar-hoover-was-gay/2011/11/21/gIQAQSlJAO_story.html?wprss&google_editors_picks=true

Gregg Schwarz frowned as he positioned himself, just so, in front of the wrought iron fence surrounding John Edgar Hoover’s grave, a place he has visited countless times but never before in anger.

A retired FBI agent who joined the agency in 1972, the year Hoover died, Schwarz had hired a videographer to film him for YouTube expressing his displeasure with a movie that depicted Hoover as a repressed homosexual. In a dig at Clint Eastwood, the director of “J. Edgar,” Schwarz titled his video response, “Dirty Harry to Filthy Harry.”

“Mr. Hoover was portrayed as an individual who had homosexual tendencies and was a tyrannical monster,” Schwarz said into the camera, as the sun glinted off his FBI cuff links and FBI lapel pin. “That is simply not true.”

Many former FBI agents share Schwartz’s pique with the film’s dropped hints of an abiding love between Hoover and aide Clyde Tolson, who is buried a few grave sites away. Historians agree that there is no evidence that either man was gay, and a request for comment from either Eastwood or screenwriter Dustin Lance Black was declined.

[msongs]

1. fine but are they upset with establishing a police state in the USA? nt

[Vincardog]

2. Plenty to men like to play dress up. Look at Rudy G. That of and by itself does not make them gay.

As for being a tyrannical monster "by their actions shall ye know them".

[provis99]

3. because calling someone gay is a horrible accusation?

Nothing wrong with being gay, and I think it's pretty obvious J. Edgar was gay.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. ROFL! All you have to do is google the following: hoover tolson photos and out come

a bazillion photos of him with Tolson at every sort of function. No females anywhere. Looking chummy as hell. Nah, he wasn't gay. And I'm Jennifer Lopez.

[Dawson Leery]

5. Hoovers real crime was his blatant disregard for Constitutional protections

against an overly intrusive government.

[rfranklin]

6. Whatever...he was a reprehensible little bully and blackmailer...

what's not to love?

[DURHAM D]

7. Question for anyone who has seen the movie.

Is Hoover's good friend Roy Cohn in the film?