32. A postscript to my J. Edgar Hoover twitter-essay. We need to think about how Hoover's racism, anti-radicalism & sexual repression linked
35. But discounting the outre crossing-dressing stories, there's plenty of reasons to think Hoover was deeply repressed gay man.
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36. Hoover's self-repression is politically interesting because it can be tied in with his racism and anti-radicalism.
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37. Black militancy, open gayness (and sexual openness), radicalism: for Hoover, all these had to be repressed.
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