Cecil’s column about J. Edgar Hoover’s alleged sexuality is full of the usual errors. Cecil claims that Hoover had “a mincing walk”, and offers this as proof of Hoover’s sexual orientation. Oh, behave! Surely there must be some heterosexuals who walk daintily, and some screaming poofters who stride purposefully.
Also, Cecil offers the usual canard that Hoover and Clyde Tolson were buried side by side. Wrong! They are buried several yards apart, in the same cemetery. And there’s no particular significance in the fact that they’re in the same cemetery, because it’s a government-owned cemetery reserved for federal civil servants.
Did you actually read the column carefully, Gwynplaine? Cecil says that some of the evidence offered for Hoover’s supposed homosexuality was “a little silly.” He describes all the following as silly arguments:
> A 1930s magazine article describes Hoover’s mincing step. He was a bit
> dandyish, favoring white linen suits as a young man; he had classical statues of
> male nudes at his home, and one of his hobbies was antique collecting.
Cecil concludes by saying that no one will ever know for sure.