Why does it matter if he was gay or not? My nephew is gay, no big deal.
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“Why does it matter if he was gay or not?”
If it wasn’t important the left would not have worked so hard to create the myth that J Edgar Hoover was a cross dressing homosexual, neither of which is true.
Even in this article they promote the idea and on every thread that mentions Hoover you will see freepers that believe it.
“Historians have suggested that Hoover himself may have been gay and that the bureau’s fascination with the sex lives of others was a manifestation of deeper currents in his psychology. Hoover never married and was a constant companion of his longtime FBI aide Clyde Tolson.”
It mattered a lot, just as JFK's numerous heterosexual affairs mattered a lot. If KGB or the mafia knew he was homosexual, they could use several tactics that would make him a very easy target for compromise, and he had access to a ton of government information. They could send a homosexual agent to start an affair and get information through pillow talk, or they could use the direct route and tell him, "You get us this information, or the whole world finds out and your career is DOA."
Same thing with Kennedy. If the affairs were outed, he would have been history, and contrary to press reports of the time, Kennedy was not a popular President. He barely won election, and was in big trouble in the polls for re-election when he was assassinated. If an affair had hit the front page, he'd have been out of consideration for re-election, and probably would have had to resign.