Comments on: Hoover investigated rumors Valenti was gay

By: John

John — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:40:04 +0000

Gee Ross, Republicans today sound like they are stuck in the 60′s.

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:46:44 +0000

Why is this surprising?

It was the 60s. Everyone was in such a huge Red Scare at the time that anything that wasn’t conservative was potentially Communist.

Non-religious people; commie. Civil rights supporter; commie. Democrat; pinko if not commie. Queer; commie. Didn’t beat up queers; commie. Feminist; commie. Voted for Kennedy or Johnson; commie. Catholic; commie.

Everyone who didn’t fit the mold of white, Protestant, conservative, male, and Republican was a potential communist in Hoover’s eyes.

By: Al Eugene

Al Eugene — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:55:20 +0000

It wasn’t so much that Cardinal Spellman was a self-hating gay man that was so troubling but he was one of the worst pedophiles the Catholic Church deified and “bent over” backwards for. His political and sexual connections to Washington, DC, Boys Town and a well-known pedophile ring that makes him such a vile criminal disquised as saint.

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:47:27 +0000

A side issue, but Roy Cohn has two panels on the Quilt: one a Soviet flag with his name on it, the other has a pink triangle with “Bully, Coward, Victim.” Several other words that could be added….

By: Alex H

Alex H — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:01:56 +0000

I think J. Edgar Hoover was like the nosy neighbor who always has to get up in everyone’s business. What’s interesting about this story is that Valenti was President Johnson’s aide. Wasn’t there another Johnson aide busted by the FBI for having sex with another man in the bathroom at the YMCA, even though he was married (to a woman) with kids? men’s

By: Bud Burgoon-Clark

Bud Burgoon-Clark — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:56:06 +0000

It mattered very much in the 1960s, when I was expelled from “liberal” Oberlin College for “suspicion of homosexuality,” even though they couldn’t prove it.

It was later discovered that Oberlin routinely discriminated against African-Americans, Asians, and (perceived) homosexuals.

The late (may he roast in hell) Fenner Douglass, then head of the organ department, and a former Navy officer (!), led the anti-gay witch-hunt in the Conservatory of Music.

The mere MENTION of homosexuality back then was enough to get one blackballed, particularly in government service, Hollywood and my chosen field, church music

Yeah, another queer organist … deal with it .

My favorite Freedom of Information Act file found that “there are no Communist sympathizers in the Oberlin Early Music Group.”

But on the serious side, people committed suicide because of Hoover, McCarthy, and Roy Cohen’s witch-hunts.

Cohen, a closeted queer, later died of AIDS. I forget what his Quilt square said, exactly … “[something], bully, victim.”

Young GLBTQAI people need to KNOW how it WAS in the ’60s, and how CLOSE the Rethuglicriminals came to bringing it all BACK during the BuschReich.

Constant vigilance is the price of liberty.

By: JayC

JayC — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:55:39 +0000

So what’s the surprise? We know Bush was keeping tabs on “gay activists” (and according to Dr. Laura et al, that’s all of us).

By: Stuff Queer People Need To Know

Stuff Queer People Need To Know — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:47:16 +0000

Those investigations were ridiculous and honestly, who cares? Did the government honestly have nothing else to do?

By: Morgan

Morgan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:40:19 +0000

on the front page of today’s Washington Post for those who live in the DC area or can get that paper locally. Might be in your own local major newspaper as well, perhaps.

By: Bud Burgoon-Clark

Bud Burgoon-Clark — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:24:29 +0000

Can we dig J. Edgar Hoover up, put him in a silk dress and heels, and hang him?

While you’re digging, exhume “Frances (sic) you bitch” Cardinal Spellman while you’re at it.

Maybe hang them in a sixty-nine??!!

Just saying …

Homophobic closeted BASTARDS, BOTH of them!!!