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* Both [[Real Life]] and depicted in ''[[Angels in America]]'': Roy Cohn, conservative lawyer and right-hand man to McCarthy, is famous for helping persecute not only suspected [[Red Scare|communists]], but suspected homosexuals as well. He died in 1986 of complications from AIDS, which he is suspected of having gotten from numerous illicit sexual encounters with men.
** Speaking of McCarthy, he himself was accused of being gay. (A journalist, Hank Greenspan of the ''Las Vegas Sun'', pointed out that "It is common talk among homosexuals in Milwaukee who rendezvous in the White Horse Inn that Senator Joe McCarthy has often engaged in homosexual activities.") McCarthy wanted to sue for libel, but he was talked out of it by his advisors, who told him that being on the witness stand meant he would have to answer questions about his sexuality. Instead, he responded to the accusations by marrying his secretary and adopting a baby girl.
* There is a persistent rumour that founder and long time head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, was a closet crossdresser and homosexual. The rumor was spread by gossip-book author Anthony Summers, who got the story from Susan Rosenstiel, a convicted perjurer with an axe to grind against Hoover. ''[[The Straight Dope]]'' has [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2423/was-j-edgar-hoover-a-cross-dresser
** Considering Hoover lived with another man all his life, they work together, eat together, and even vacation together with no other women in sight, and when he died his "friend" received Hoover's flag usually reserved for widows... Also, the funeral plot directly next to Hoover's was reserved for the same man that received his flag.
*** So all together the evidence points to either a closeted (and charmingly monogamous) homosexual Hoover or [[Heterosexual Life Partners]], but not a crossdresser one.
**** The [[Clint Eastwood]] directed [[Biopic]] ''[[J. Edgar]]'' explored this part of his life quite deeply.
* In black American communities this is known as "being on the down low", where tough gangsta types would sneak away from their girlfriends and cruise gay bars, [[Invisible to Gaydar|but didn't identify themselves as "gay" because they weren't Flamboyant and Camp]] ([[Unfortunate Implications|because gay men can be nothing else]] apparently). This has been blamed for the high number of HIV infections among black women. During the early 2000's, it became something of a witch-hunt, with many black religious leaders and relationship experts screaming, "if he's not constantly showering you with attention and gifts all the time, he's On The Down Low and you need to put his ass out!"
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