You have never read in serious history, that Hoover was homosexual, that is a media myth, and one that the Soviet Union wanted to feed.
In real life, he was never homosexual, never wore women’s clothing, he was just devoted to the FBI.
I've seen it in more than one periodical article, and then there's the recent A-list portrayal in J. Edgar.
How explain that? A giant smear? Perpetrated and sustained over what, 50, 60 years?
Hard to believe that people could smear a top cop for 60 years and get away with it.
Even the Rosenberg liars had their corregidors and purifiers of the true record 50 years ago. They never really got away with that one -- "we're innocent, it's a frame!"
I think you have the tougher sell.