That Time SCREW Revealed J. Edgar Hoover’s Dirty Little Secret.
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5 min readMay 3, 2023
It was the second worst day of J. Edgar Hoover’s life.
On May 2, 1969, Screw published Issue #11 with our infamous cover story, “Is J. Edgar Hoover a Fag?” — publicly calling-out the nation’s first FBI director and hero of the Conservatives, personally, on his sexuality, and the entire Nixon administration on its hypocrisy. This simple headline ignited a…
