J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the “Sex Deviates” Program

By Christopher Elias 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ

The Bureau was driven by “an overarching and intense fear and loathing of gays.”

Archives of Desire: A Lavender Reading of J. Edgar Hoover

By Christopher Elias 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

Collier’s made one of the earliest print references to the sexuality of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.