Comments on: Oh Noes! The FBI is going to Teh Ghey! http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/10/02/49293 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Wed, 22 May 2013 20:22:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Jean-Michel http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/10/02/49293/comment-page-1#comment-157618 Jean-Michel Sat, 06 Oct 2012 03:29:38 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=49293#comment-157618 Newspapers and magazines referred to Hoover's rumored homosexuality as far back as the 1920s, using subtly and not-so-subtly coded language. The most famous is a 1933 Collier's article that described his "mincing step." Such articles ceased shortly thereafter (though rumors circulated privately all down the decades), and it was only in 1970 that Gore Vidal could make a more-or-less-open reference in a <a HREF="http://www.gorevidalpages.com/1970/06/gore-vidal-doc-reuben.html" rel="nofollow">book review</A>. Newspapers and magazines referred to Hoover’s rumored homosexuality as far back as the 1920s, using subtly and not-so-subtly coded language. The most famous is a 1933 Collier’s article that described his “mincing step.” Such articles ceased shortly thereafter (though rumors circulated privately all down the decades), and it was only in 1970 that Gore Vidal could make a more-or-less-open reference in a book review.

]]> By: Snowman http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/10/02/49293/comment-page-1#comment-156617 Snowman Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:15:52 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=49293#comment-156617 How can it be any worse than when old J. Edgar ran things? Those were actually some pretty good days for the nuts, and Hoover was very likely to have been very, very gay. This is not a new theory either, I first heard of it in the 1980's and I believe, it was on "60 Minutes" that I first heard it, if I remember right. How can it be any worse than when old J. Edgar ran things? Those were actually some pretty good days for the nuts, and Hoover was very likely to have been very, very gay. This is not a new theory either, I first heard of it in the 1980′s and I believe, it was on “60 Minutes” that I first heard it, if I remember right.

]]> By: Regan DuCasse http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/10/02/49293/comment-page-1#comment-156067 Regan DuCasse Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:08:00 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=49293#comment-156067 See, brain damage. Camenker and his ilk don't seem to have enough brain left to know it. See, brain damage. Camenker and his ilk don’t seem to have enough brain left to know it.

]]> By: Tor http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/10/02/49293/comment-page-1#comment-155685 Tor Wed, 03 Oct 2012 02:42:02 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=49293#comment-155685 Irony. It's like coppery and brassy, only black. --Black Adder Irony. It’s like coppery and brassy, only black.

–Black Adder

]]> By: JohnAGJ http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/10/02/49293/comment-page-1#comment-155547 JohnAGJ Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:53:09 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=49293#comment-155547 You ought to read some of the comments posted at LifeSite. Wow. Camenker is definitely among his own looney kind there. You ought to read some of the comments posted at LifeSite. Wow. Camenker is definitely among his own looney kind there.

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