Roy Cohn and J Edgar Hoover both prosecuted people for being gay and tried to tie homosexuality to communism. It has been rumored that Hoover and Cohn were THEMSELVES gay or bisexual. How true is this?

by bumenkhan

It got to the point that Eisenhower signed an executive order barred homosexuals from Federal government jobs in 1954.

How true is it that Cohn and Hoover themselves were gay? There are various sources and conflicting theories on this.

It's just fascinating to think about how hypocritical they could have been.

Georgy_K_Zhukov

/u/grandissimo and myself address this a bit in this thread.