In public, Hoover waged a vendetta against homosexuals and kept 'confidential and secret' files on the sex lives of congressmen and presidents.
I don't really know and nobody really knew.' 'He was a man of mystery,' he told ABC's 'Good Morning America' last week.
So was the most powerful man in America, who died in 1972 - three years after the Stonewall riots marked the modern gay civil rights movement - homosexual?Įastwood admits the relationship between Hoover, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and Clyde Tolson, played by Armie Hammer, is ambiguous.
