'Some men do not publicly identify as gay, regardless of their sexual behavior.'Įven the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracks a group that is not labeled 'gay' but ' men who have sex with men.' 'We confuse sexual orientation with sexual identity,' said Drescher. And even if they are homosexually self-aware, they can embrace it or reject it publicly. Men with strong attractions to other men can have different degrees of acceptance from being fully closeted to being openly gay.

Jack Drescher, a New York City psychiatrist who is an expert in gender and sexuality. But privately, according to some biographers, he had numerous trysts with men, including a lifelong affair with Tolson.ĭissociation - denying homosexuality, but displaying sexual behavior - is 'not uncommon,' according to Dr. In public, Hoover waged a vendetta against homosexuals and kept 'confidential and secret' files on the sex lives of congressmen and presidents.

I don't really know and nobody really knew.' 'He was a man of mystery,' he told ABC's 'Good Morning America' last week. So was the most powerful man in America, who died in 1972 - three years after the Stonewall riots marked the modern gay civil rights movement - homosexual?Įastwood admits the relationship between Hoover, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and Clyde Tolson, played by Armie Hammer, is ambiguous.