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I swear I have seen a B&W candid photo of Hoover in his back yard wearing a dress. It was years ago, and I can't seem to find it with image search. It could hav

I swear I have seen a B&W candid photo of Hoover in his back yard wearing a dress. It was years ago, and I can't seem to find it with image search. It could have been faked, which was my first thought, but as far as I could tell, as a graphics professional, it did not appear so to me. It looked like it was his gag, like he put on a dress as a joke. iirc, Tolson was in the picture dressed causally, and they were both laughing, not very close to the camera, and the picture did not appear staged. It looked like he was hanging out in his back yard in a dress as a joke and I assumed it was the (false) source of the rumors that he was a transvestite, like, if someone had seen it in 1950 they'd be sure he was, but to me it just looked like a man in a dress goofing off, and there's a huge difference. He wasn't wearing makeup or a wig, and he was smoking a cigar. It would have looked like a Halloween scene, except Tolson was dressed normally.

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egberts1 4y ago
None were found but inside rumors persisted. https://curatedtaste.com/2022/11/the-cross-dressing-j-edgar-hoover.html https://curatedtaste.com/2022/11/the-cross-dressing-j-edgar-...
colechristensen 4y ago
There were lots of stories, not just sourced out of one incident.
boomboomsubban 4y ago
I feel like I've seen this picture as a bit on a TV show, but I can't remember which one. Maybe Arrested Development, when they were making a lot of George Sr/Transparent jokes?
- orionion 4y ago
  >The truth is, no one knows because there is no reliable evidence that Hoover was gay. >The Soviet KGB began spreading disinformation about J Edgar Hoover's sexual proclivities in the 1960s. These included claims that Hoover was a gay cross-dresser. The fact is that in the well-regarded history book, The Sword And The Shield - The Mitrokhin Archive And The Secret History Of The KGB, authors Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, point out that like the CIA, the FBI was a major target of KGB disinformation operations and that, until his death in 1972, many of these measures were directed against J Edgar Hoover. https://petievich.com/the-truth-about-j-edgar/ https://petievich.com/the-truth-about-j-edgar/
  - boomboomsubban 4y ago
    A TV show could make a joke about it even without reliable evidence.

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egberts1 4y ago

None were found but inside rumors persisted. https://curatedtaste.com/2022/11/the-cross-dressing-j-edgar-hoover.html https://curatedtaste.com/2022/11/the-cross-dressing-j-edgar-...

colechristensen 4y ago

There were lots of stories, not just sourced out of one incident.

boomboomsubban 4y ago

I feel like I've seen this picture as a bit on a TV show, but I can't remember which one. Maybe Arrested Development, when they were making a lot of George Sr/Transparent jokes?

orionion 4y ago
>The truth is, no one knows because there is no reliable evidence that Hoover was gay. >The Soviet KGB began spreading disinformation about J Edgar Hoover's sexual proclivities in the 1960s. These included claims that Hoover was a gay cross-dresser. The fact is that in the well-regarded history book, The Sword And The Shield - The Mitrokhin Archive And The Secret History Of The KGB, authors Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, point out that like the CIA, the FBI was a major target of KGB disinformation operations and that, until his death in 1972, many of these measures were directed against J Edgar Hoover. https://petievich.com/the-truth-about-j-edgar/ https://petievich.com/the-truth-about-j-edgar/
- boomboomsubban 4y ago
  A TV show could make a joke about it even without reliable evidence.