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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.

** 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 a closeted (and charmingly monogamous) homosexual Hoover, but not a crossdresser one.