Hoover's War on Gays: Exposing the FBI's "Sex Deviates" Program

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"An excellent and much-needed contribution to our knowledge on twentieth-century surveillance and harassment of a sexual minority, which intensified as that minority became more self-confident and public in its demands. Charles has demonstrated amply how intricate documentary histories based on deep and hidden bureaucratic paper trails provide uniquely illuminating details of key episodes of state power and grassroots resistance to it."--H-Net Reviews "This well-researched book draws heavily on primary sources from presidential libraries, FBI records, oral histories, and government reports. One unique source that Charles taps is the Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Historical Society, located in San Francisco, California."--American Historical Review "Fills an important gap in the history of the gay rights movement by providing a comprehensive account of the five-decade campaign of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to intimidate and harass gay men, lesbians, and organizations that sought to advance their rights."--Journal of American History "Charles has unquestionably compiled the most comprehensive account of his subject."--Choice "By throwing out the sensationalism, Hollywood and otherwise, Charles makes possible his cool but devastating chronicle of what can be known about FBI covert investigation of homosexuals in the 20th century and Hoover's role in the design and implementation of the programs to undertake it. It's a far more gripping story than any conjecture about the director's intimate relationship with his second-in-command, Clyde Tolson, could be."--The Bay Area Reporter "Charles's book is an excellent example of how to write about a dark chapter in the Bureau's past without venting. The author is remarkably objective about a time when a prude, and possible hypocrite, lumped gays in with authentic traitors. In Hoover's warped view,

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Hoover's war on gays: exposing the FBI's "sex deviates" program

Charles, Douglas M.

Charles, Douglas M.

Abstract

"Based on extensive research of primary sources and relentless FOIA requests, Charles provides the first comprehensive history of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI's systematic (some would say obsessive) targeting, investigation, and harassment of homosexuals for the half century that began in the1930s. One of Charles's signal achievements is to piece together the procedures, purposes, and contents of Hoover's "Sex Deviate File" encompassing an estimated 99 cubic feet, or more than 330,000 pages, but which was destroyed by the FBI in the late 1970s"--

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