J. EDGAR HOOVER’S WAR ON GAYS: “For J. Edgar Hoover, homosexuals — or, in his lexicon, ‘sex deviates’ — who worked in the federal government were as much a threat to the republic as any embedded Soviet spies:”

According to Penn State historian Doug Charles in his book Hoover’s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI “Sex Deviates” Program, this initiative was the launch of a massive campaign against homosexuals by the Bureau. By the 1970s, the FBI had collected 360,000 files on gays and lesbians in the federal government. Dates and places of their “acts” were included in the files. From police reports and “individual complaints,” agents collected names of these “unsuitable,” “unstable” “security risks.”

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