Who is J Edgar Hoover ?

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DescriptionJohn Edgar Hoover was an American law enforcement administrator and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States.

J. Edgar Hoover: Gay or Just a Man Who Has Sex With Men?

J. Edgar Hoover led a deeply repressed sexual life, living with his mother until he was 40, awkwardly rejecting the attention of women and pouring his emotional, and at times, physical attention on his handsome deputy at the FBI, according to the new movie, "J. Edgar," directed by Clint Eastwood.

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?

Eastwood admits the relationship between Hoover, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and Clyde Tolson, played by Armie Hammer, is ambiguous.

"He was a man of mystery," he told ABC's "Good Morning America" last week. "He might have been [gay]. I am agnostic about it. I don't really know and nobody really knew."

Dissociation -- denying homosexuality, but displaying sexual behavior -- is "not uncommon," according to Dr. Jack Drescher, a New York City psychiatrist who is an expert in gender and sexuality.

For half a century, the FBI director waged war on homosexuals, black people and communists. Now, a controversial film

by Clint Eastwood is set to reveal some of the explosive truth about him.

Even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracks a group that is not labeled "gay" but "men who have sex with men."

Edgar Hoover was a phenomenon.

Hoover as a Cross-Dresser Is Controversial
One short scene in the film showed the FBI director in anguish over his mother's death, putting on her dress and beads, a nod to Summers expose that Hoover had been a cross-dresser.

"I don't really know and nobody really knew," he told ABC. "It's definitely a love story. You can love a person and whether it goes into the realm of being gay or not, is here nor there."

The first Director of the FBI, he remained in office for 48 years.

his appointment after the First World War to his death in 1972,

A younger generation of gays was moved by the film precisely because it portrayed such an iconic figure's struggle with his sexuality.

chieving fame and extraordinary power. For public consumption when he died

The film explores J. Edgar Hoover's emotional attachments to the tiny inner circle of people he trusted.

President Richard Nixon eulogised him as:

"I don't think anyone truly will know the absolute truth about J.Edgar Hoover's personal life," DiCaprio told Moran. "I think that, sort of, passed away with him and Clyde Tolson."

One of the giants… a national symbol of courage, patriotism and granite-like honesty and integrity.

One of the giants… a national symbol of courage, patriotism and granite-like honesty and integrity.

He added, "I think the way Clint handled it in this movie was very tastefully done because what it did reflect was people who had unrequited yearning to have that sort of connection with somebody else."