F.B.I. and Homosexuality: Persons and Groups Investigated

See also:

F.B.I. and Homosexuality: A History MAIN PAGE

F.B.I. and Homosexuality: Bibliography

F.B.I. and Homosexuality: Chronology, Part 1

F.B.I. and Homosexuality: Chronology, Part 2

F.B.I. and Homosexuality: Chronology, Part 3

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation and Homosexuality

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Persons and Groups Investigated

Alphabetical Subject List

F.B.I. Surveillance of Homosexuals, Alleged Homosexuals, Persons Associated with Homosexuality, Homosexual Groups, and Anti-Homosexual Groups and Persons

This list in construction is composed of the names of individuals and groups listed on the FBI's "Vault Index" website as having some association with homosexuality. This list also contains the names of individuals known or rumored to have been homosexual or bisexual, or who were associated somehow with homosexuality, who had encounters with the FBI. This list also contains the names of individuals associated with homosexuality and who supported, or were alleged to support left-wing or liberal causes. Future research will show if the FBI had files on all these persons and if those files referred to homosexuality.

This research is intended to provide wide-ranging evidence of the surveillance of homosexuals, rumored homosexuals, or homosexuality conducted by the FBI.

The designation "African American" is added under the names of some individuals to facilitate research on the FBI's spying on Black homosexual artists, writers, and activists, or those rumored to be homosexual.

ABSCAM.

Part 10 of 10 refers to "homosexuality". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.

ACTUP

Addams, Jane.

From the FBI Vault: Jane Addams (1860-1935) was an internationally known social worker, activist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner. This release concerns a treason investigation opened in 1924 involving the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; Addams was a founding member of the organization. Jane Addams Part 1 of 4, Jane Addams Part 2 of 4; Jane Addams Part 3 of 4; Jane Addams Part 4 of 4

Addams had a number of intimate relationships with women and it has been suggested that these included sexual desire and perhaps activity. See for example: Nara Schoenberg, "Outing Jane Addams: Was the founder of Hull House a lesbian? And does it matter? Chicago Tribune, February 06, 2007.

Alsop, Joseph

See: Edwin M. Yoder, Jr., Joe Alsop's Cold War: A Study of Journalistic Influence and Intrigue (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1995), 153–6

American Nazi Party.

Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.

Part 1 of 2 refers to ???.

Part 1 of 2 refers to "homosexuals".

Part 2 of 2 refers to "homosexuals".

Amerithrax.

Part 10 of 30 refers to "homosexuality". Part 05 refers to "lesbian".

Amerithrax, short for American anthrax attacks, was a multi-agency investigation led by the FBI. It was launched in October 2001. Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.

Aptheker, Bettina.

FBI file?

Arvin, Newton

Atlanta Child Murders.

Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault. Refers to ?

Babcock, Ed.

Young Republican aid to Joseph McCarthy. Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 379.

Baldwin, James

African American writer, activist.

His FBI files contain references to his homosexualiity. See: Natalie S. Robins, Alien ink: the FBI's War on Freedom of Expression (William Morrow, 1992), page 348, etc.

Bankhead, Talulah.

FBI Vault: 11 pages. See: http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/foiaindex_b.htm

Does her FBI file refer to homosexuality?

Beekman, Gustave.

Proprietor of homosexual brothel in Brooklyn, NY, in 1940s. Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 287.

Bentley, Elizabeth.

Mary Price said that Bentley had made homosexual advances to her, which may or may not be true. Source: "Clever Girl, pages 315-316.

Bernstein, Leonard

720 pages. See: http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/foiaindex_b.htm

Does his FBI file refer to homosexuality?

Bissinger, Carl.

Black Panther Party

African American radical left activist organization.

Search of FBI Vault on Dec 6, 2012 for "Black Panther Party homosexual":

COINTELPRO\New Left- Pittsburgh Part 01 of 01

Black Guerilla Family Part 3 of 3

COINTELPRO\New Left- Philadelphia Part 01 of 01

Black Guerilla Family Part 1 of 3

Abbie Hoffman Part 32 of 50

Abbie Hoffman Part 47 of 50

COINTELPRO Black Extremist Part 22 of 23

COINTELPRO White Hate Groups Part 01 of 14

Jonestown Part 23 of 287

Abbie Hoffman Part 26 of 50

Abbie Hoffman Part 43 of 50

COINTELPRO Black Extremist Part 07 of 23

Jonestown Part 190 of 287

Jonestown Part 10 of 287

COINTELPRO\New Left- Los Angeles Part 01 of 02

Jonestown Part 279 of 287

COINTELPRO\New Left- Los Angeles Part 02 of 02

Jonestown Part 285 of 287

Clyde Tolson Part 8 of 11

Clyde Tolson Part 10 of 11

COINTELPRO New Left Butte Part 01 of 01

Jonestown Part 133 of 287

Ralph Abernathy Part 01 of 01

Search of FBI Vault on Dec 6, 2012 for "Black Panther Party gay"

Stokely Carmichael Part 4 of 5

Search of FBI Vault on Dec 6, 2012 for "Black Panther Party lesbian":

COINTELPRO Black Extremist Part 21 of 23

J. Edgar Hoover Part 16 of 22

Jonestown Part 177 of 287

See also:

Carmichael, Stokely

Newton, Huey

Black Dahlia (Elizabeth Short).

Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault. In 1947, Elizabeth Ann Short (1924-1947) was brutally mutilated and murdered in Los Angeles. The FBI was heavily involved the investigation.

Part 3 of 4 refers to "lesbian".

Blitzstein, Marc:

FBI Vault: See: http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/foiaindex_r.htm

Does his FBI file refer to homosexuality?

Blunt, Anthony.

FBI Vault: See: http://vault.fbi.gov/Anthony%20Blunt%20/Anthony%20Blunt%20Part%201%20of%201/view Accessed October 9, 2011.

An earlier URL listing 37 pages was: http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/foiaindex_b.htm

Bourbon, Rae.

career as professional female impersonator; was an informant and investigated by the FBI. See: Romesburg, Don. “Longevity and Limits in Rae Bourbon’s Life in Motion,” in Transgender Migrations: The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition, ed. Trystan Cotten (New York: Routledge, 2011), 130-131; and and Romesburg, Don. “Ray Bourbon: A Queer Biography” (MA Thesis, CU Boulder, Fall 2000), 180-187.

Boise, Idaho.

Anti-homosexual witch hunt. FBI cited in The Boys of Boise: Furor, Vice & Folly in an American City by John Gerassi (University of Washington Press, 2001), pages 7, 22, 49, 165.

FBI Files (citing Boise)

Brecht, Bertolt

FBI Files

Buck, Pearl.

Part 3 of 4 refers to term "homosexual". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.

Pearl Buck Part 3 of 4 refers to "homosexuals".

Burgess, Guy

See also Philby, Kim

Calomiris, Angela "Angie": August 1, 1916 - January 30, 1995

FBI Files

FBI Files mentioning Angela Calomiris:

Eleanor Roosevelt Part 25 of 37

Klaus Fuchs Part 82 of 111

Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (1911-1988) was a German-born atomic scientist who emigrated to Great Britain in the late 1930s. He worked on the joint U.S./British ...

FBI Files mentioning "Angela Calomiris" (in quotes)

Cambridge Five Spy Ring

FBI Vault: Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.

Parts 2, 3, 28, 33, 36, 39 of 42 refer to "homosexual".

Part 3 of 42 refers to "homosexuals".

Part 20 of 42 refers to "homosexuals".

Part 29 of 42 refers to "homosexuals".

Part 14 of 42 refers to "homosexuals".

Part 25 of 42 refers to "homosexuals".

Part 38 of 42 refers to "homosexuals".

Part 4 of 42 refers to "homosexuals".

Part 15 of 42 refers to "homosexuals".

Caldwell, Taylor

FBI files

Capote, Truman

FBI files

Chambers, Whittaker.

Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 363.

Chancellor, John.

FBI Vault accessed October 9, 2011.

Part 1 of 4 refers to "homosexual"

Part 2 of 4 refers to "homosexual" and "homosexuals".

Part 3 of 4 refers to "homosexual".

Part 4 of 4 refers to "homosexual".

Chung, Margaret

Dr. Margaret "Mom" Chung: From the book Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (page 96): "The rumors regarding Chung even surfaced in a 1940 report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The agent noted that the doctors in Chinatown 'will not say anything about [Chung] but raises his [sic] when she is mentioned. There are rumors that she is a lesbian.'" There are 45 references to the word "lesbian" in the biography of Chung: see http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Mom-Chung-Fair-Haired-Bastards/dp/0520245288

Cohn, Roy.

Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 412.

FBI Files

Cohn, Yetta.

Communist Party member, police woman.

See: Angela "Angie" Calomiris: August 1, 1916 - January 30, 1995

No files found on FBI website December 25, 2011

Columbine High School.

FBI Vault: Part 3 of 4 refers to "homosexuals".

Cook, Blanche Wiesen

Historian, writer, activist.

FBI file?

Cook, Nancy

American suffrage leader, teacher, part owner of the Todhunter School and an intimate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Lover of Marion Dickerman. See: Wikipedia, Nancy Cook

FBI files?

Covenant The Sword The Arm of the Lord, The.

Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.

Part 2 refers to "homosexual".

Part 1 of 2 refers to "homosexuals"

Cullen, Countee

FBI Files

African American writer, teacher.

Dandridge, Dorothy.

African American film actress. Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.

Part 1 of 1 includes term "homosexual".

Davis, Angela

African American political activist, writer, teacher.

FBI Files

Does her FBI file refer to homosexuality?

Davis, Charles

Advisor to Joseph McCarthy, alleged to have been dismissed from U.S. Navy for homosexual acts.) Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 379

FBI Files

Delinger, Dave

Deming, Barbara

See: See Duberman, Martin B., A Saving Remnant: The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds. New Press (March 1, 2011). ISBN-10: 1595583238. ISBN-13: 978-1595583239. Deming, Jane Albert, FBI, page 169.

Deran, Elizabeth

The entry on author Alma Routsong in Feminists Who Changed the World says that her short story "Strangers in Camelot" is based on being interrogated by the FBI about her lesbian lifestyle in the 1960s. Her lover of the time, Elizabeth Deran, was employed as an economist by the U.S. Government.

Deran email to Jonathan Ned Katz: "Alma [Routsong] was not "interrogated by the FBI about her lesbian relationship with [me] in the 1960s." What actually happened, and the event on which her short story was based, was that the Undersecretary of the Treasury arranged for me (never Alma) to meet with two Secret Service agents, who read to me the contents of my rather extensive file. Mr. Surrey arranged this meeting with the thought that I then could decide whether the material they had assembled was too damaging to dispute (it was!). Neither Alma nor I ever had any encounter with the FBI.

See also: Alma Routsong

Dickerman, Marion

American suffrage leader, educator, vice-principal of the Todhunter School and an intimate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Lover of Nancy Cook. See Wikipedia: Marion Dickerman

FBI files

Dietrich, Marlene.

Does she have an FBI file? Does it refer to homosexuality?

Donovan, William J.

Book Review - Wild Bill Donovan - By Douglas Waller - NYTimes.com www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/books/review/Conant-t.html?...allFeb 11, 2011 – A biography of William J. Donovan, the head of the World War II ... the O.S.S. chief accumulated reports that the F.B.I. director was homosexual. ...

does the FBI have files on Donovan?

Douglas Waller: "Wild Bill Donovan The Spymaster Who Created the ... outhistory.org/.../Douglas_Waller:_%22Wild_Bill_Donovan_The_Sp...Feb 13, 2011 – OutHistory.org would like to know of additional sources referring to William J. Donovan, homosexuals, and homosexuality.

active in anti-homosexual witchhunt in Boise, Idaho? JNK thinks he remembers this. Check.

Duberman, Martin

Historian, writer, activist.

Ehrlichman, John.

Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.

Part 1 of 5 refers to "homosexuals". RESEARCH !!!!

Equi, Marie

Marie Diana Equi (born April 7, 1872, New Bedford, Massachusetts – died July 13, 1952, Portland, Oregon) was an American medical doctor and anarchist. FBI file.

FBI agents

Unnamed, thought to be homosexual). Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 755.

FBI Files

Collection of FBI files on homophile groups, homosexual emancipation groups, and gay liberation groups, 1953-1970. Archive of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexua, & Transgender Community Center, New York City.

48. FBI FILES

Archive Number: 48

Date: 1953 to 1970

Size: 2 ½ feet

FBI Files 1953 to 1970

Provenance

This collection was donated by Martin Duberman. It came to us in 3 small boxes and 1 large box for a total of 2' 3". On speaking to Mr. Duberman on May 7, 1996 he told me the reason he was able to get his hands on this material. It seems that a Mr. Duncan Osborne , a writer for the Gay Press notified Mr. Duberman that he had sued the Government to obtain the rights to the files. The files had been released. Initially one person must sue the government to get the papers released. Mr. Duberman then paid $500- 600 dollars to get them copied and sent to him.

The first two boxes are arranged in groups of papers fixed together with metal fasteners, while the third box is all in folders. This box came to the Archive in loose form with each group / organization separated by a slip of paper marked with the organizations name.

Scope and Content

The general scope and content of this collection is extensive copies of papers collected on or about the various Mattachine Society, Gay Liberation Front, the North American Conference of Homophile Organizations, the National Planing Conference of Homophile Organizational the Western Conference of Homophile Organizations and their activities over the years 1953 - 1970's. The F.B.I. and The Justice Department kept track of members and events that they attended over this period of time. The records have been censored, sometimes in their entirety. A large amount of the information has been censored with a black marker.

The information on the particular organizations is at times wildly inaccurate. The collection, therefore, says more about the FBI than it does about the gay movement.

FBI informants

Unnamed, thought to be homosexual. Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 412

Florida Legislative Committee ("The Johns Committee")

The Johns Committee begun interrogating suspected homosexuals among students and faculty on Florida campuses before the Legislature gave specific authorization for the investigation of homosexuals. In 1958, committee chairman Johns illegally sent a covert investigator to the University of Florida after his son, Jerome Johns, told his father that "effeminate instructors had perverted the curriculum."

In 1961, the Legislature directed the Johns Committee to broaden its investigations to include homosexuals and the "extent of [their] infiltration into agencies supported by state funds," particularly at state colleges and universities such as the University of Florida, Florida State University, and the University of South Florida. Having the power to subpoena witnesses, take sworn testimony, and employ secret informants, the committee spread terror among the closeted lesbian and gay population in state colleges, often using uniformed policemen to pull students and professors out of classes for interrogation.[5] All homosexual acts were crimes under Florida law at that time and remained so until the United States Supreme Court's Lawrence v. Texas ruling in 2003.[6] Admission of homosexuality constituted moral turpitude and was grounds for firing or expulsion from college. Research Request: FBI files, connection?

Gay Activists Alliance

FBI Vault: 534 pages

See: http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/foiaindex_g.htm

Gay Activists Alliance:

FBI Vault: 135 pages.

From the F.B.I. website: "This Civil Rights organization originated [sic] at Ohio State University in the 1970's and had several other Chapters throughout the United States, which were concerned with equal rights for gays and lesbians." URL: http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/gayalli.htm

Part 01

Part 02

Gay Liberation Front

FBI Vault: 1,113 pages

http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/foiaindex_g.htm

Geer, Will.

actor, best known as Grandpa Zebulon Tyler Walton in the 1970s TV series, The Waltons. In 1934, Geer met Harry Hay at the Tony Pastor Theatre, where Geer worked as an actor. They became lovers, and Hay credited Geer as his political mentor. Hay and Geer participated in a milk strike in Los Angeles, where Hay was first exposed to radical gay activism in the person of "Clarabelle," a drag queen who held court in the Bunker Hill neighborhood, who hid Hay from police. Later that year, Hay and Geer performed in support of the San Francisco General Strike. Hay later founded the Mattachine Society, the first sustained homosexual emancipation organization in the U.S. FBI file on Geer?

Genet, Jean

FBI files?

Georgetown University student, female.

"When a Georgetown University professor was questioned by an FBI agent . . . about one of his students, he attributed both her lesbianism and her affinity for leftist ideology to her psychological problems."

Ginsberg, Allan.

On his FBI files: See: Natalie S. Robins, Alien ink: the FBI's War on Freedom of Expression (William Morrow, 1992), page 348, etc.

Gold, Harry.

Part 29 of 108 refers to "homosexuality". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.

Goodman, Paul

Goodman’s outspoken support for young Vietnam War draft resisters . . . earned him the FBI classification of "subversive homosexual"

Hansberry, Lorraine

African American playwright, essayist, political activist.

Does her FBI file mention her homosexuality?

http://www.nypl.org/archives/3686 New York Public Library: Lorraine Hansberry Papers (includes her FBI file).

See: Ben Keppel. The Work of Democracy: Ralph Bunche, Kenneth B. Clark, Lorraine Hansberry, and the Cultural Politics of Race. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, YEAR? .

Hay, Harry.

Communist Party member; founder of Mattachine Society, Los Angeles.

Other Mattachine Society founders with CP or left affiliations?

Hellman, Lilian

Any reference to homosexuality or lesbianism in connection with her writing "The Children's Hour"?

Hells Angels.

Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.

Helms, Jesse.

Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.

Parts 03, 04 of 07 refer to "lesbian".

Part 04 of 07 refers to "homosexuals".

Part 03 of 07 refers to "homosexuals".

Hickock, Lorena

Journalist, intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Hitler, Adolph.

See: http://vault.fbi.gov/adolf-hitler Accessed October 9, 2011. (Users of OutHistory would like to know if this file contains any allegations of homosexuality.)

Holliday, Judy

See: Angela "Angie" Calomiris: August 1, 1916 - January 30, 1995

See also: Yetta Cohn

Hoover, John Edgar: January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972 {See also Tolson, Clyde.

FBI Vault. Part 11 of 22 refers to "homosexuality". Part 16 refers to "lesbian", Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.

FBI files "include several memos regarding FBI agents visits, which included "vigorous interrogation" and "forcefully" presented points, made to individuals who made accusations or passed on rumor that J. Edgar Hoover was homosexual. Files note retribution taken against an employee of the National Labor Relations Board."

Hudson, Rock.

Part 1 of 1 refers to ???. Accessed October 9, 2011 from FBI Vault.

Huggins, Ericka

African American political activist.

Hughes, Langston African American writer. FBI files. Do they contain any hint at homosexuality?

Hutchins, Grace

Does her FBI file refer to homosexuality?

See also: Rochester, Anna

Inge, William

FBI file?

Isherwood, Christopher

FBI file?

Jack the Ripper.

Part 1 of 1 refers to "homosexual". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI vault.

Jenkins, Walter.

Aid to Lyndon Johnson, arrested for homosexual solicitation just before presidential election.

Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 579-580.

Johnson, Myrtis

Angela "Calomiris also began dating Myrtis Johnson, the sister-in-law of her FBI handler, Ken Bierly, a fact that attracted attention from the media." See: Angela "Angie" Calomiris: August 1, 1916 - January 30, 1995

Jorgensen, Christine

FBI files?

Katz, Jonathan Ned

FBI file contains no reference to homosexuality.

Kameny, Franklin

His dossier entered FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's files for "sexual deviants." Quoted from "FRANKLIN KAMENY" by Michael Huffington, in the Washington Post.

Karpis, Alvin FBI Files

Kaye, Danny FBI Files

Kepner, James

Kinsey, Alfred.

FBI Vault: See: http://vault.fbi.gov/Alfred%20Kinsey Accessed October 9, 2011 from FBI Vault.

Parts 3, 4 refer to "homosexual". Other parts also refer to "homosexual",

Part 2 of 4 refers to "homosexuals". Alfred Kinsey Part 4 of 4 refers to "homosexuals".

Part 4 of 4 refers to "lesbian".

Part 3 of 4 refers to "homosexuals".

Lape, Esther

Journalist, publicist and English professor, one of the founders of the League of Woman Voter, intimate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Life partner of Esther Fisher Read. FBI file?

Lash, Joseph.

Accessed October 9, 2011 from FBI Vault.

Liberace.

Part 3 of 6 refers to "homosexuals". Accessed October 9, 2011 from FBI Vault.

Locke, Alain

African American writer, teacher.

Lorde, Audre

African American poet, essayist, activist.

MacArthur, General Douglas\.

FBI Vault: Part 4 of 4 refers to "homosexuals".

Mattachine Society

See: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) release of material from FBI file number 100-HQ-403320 Subject: The Mattachine Society, 1948-1971 - [PDF 43 MB - 28-Jun-2010] at: http://governmentattic.org/

NOTE: Large file: 43 MB

Part 03 of 03 refers to "lesbian". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.

Part 03 of 03 refers to "lesbianism". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.

Part 03 of 03 refers to "homosexuals". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.

McCarthy, Joseph.

U. S. Senator. Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 432, 434.

FBI Vault:

Files accessed October 9, 2011 from FBI Vault.

Part 3 of 56 refers to ?

Part 35 of 56 refers to "homosexuals".

Part 3 of 56 refers to "homosexuals".

Part 5 of 56 refers to "homosexuals".

McKay, Claude

African American writer.

McReynolds, David

Peace activist, homosexual. See Duberman, Martin B., A Saving Remnant: The Radical Lives of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds. New Press (March 1, 2011). ISBN-10: 1595583238. ISBN-13: 978-1595583239. Page 35: Reference to McReynold's FBI file. Page 129: reference to FBI's notorious "watch list". Page 257: FBI files cited.

Miller, Frieda.

New York State industrial commissioner and later U.S. Women’s Bureau chief. Partner of Pauline M. Newman for fifty-six years. For more details see: http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/newman-pauline, accessed December 10, 2012.

Milk, Harvey

See also Moscone, Dan White

National Organization for Women (NOW)

Nelson, Jack.

"The Los Angeles Times got a hold of the FBI file on former reporter Jack Nelson through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, revealing that Hoover was pretty panicked that Nelson was going to report he was “homosexual.”

Newman, Pauline M.

(October 18, 1887 - April 1986) American labor activist. "In 1918 the ILGWU [International Ladies Garment Workers Union} loaned PN to the Philadelphia WTUL [Women's Trade Union League], which she served as president and organizer until 1923; here she met Frieda Miller (FSM), who was then secretary of the Philadelphia WTUL and who became her lifelong friend." "After 1924 PN lived in NYC and often shared a home with Frieda Miller until the latter's death in 1973. PN helped to raise FSM's adopted daughter, Elisabeth. . . ." FBI file?

Nuestra Familia

FBI Vault: Part 1 of 1 refers to ?. Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.

Nugent, Richard Bruce

African American painter. FBI file?

Nureyev, Rudolph

FBI file?

Perkins, Francis

U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet.

"Confronting family issues--a frequently institutionalized husband with severe psychiatric problems; a deeply secret lesbian relationship with Mary Harriman Rumsey (sister of Averell Harriman); a daughter from whom she was often estranged-Perkins nevertheless exhibited tireless grace under pressure again and again, always rising to the occasion in the name of every and any progressive cause.”-Publishers Weekly, starred review of The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience by Kirstin Downey. FBI file?

Police, local.

Said to cover up information about FBI agents arrested for homosexual solicitation).

Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 419.

Profumo, John (Bowtie).

English politician involved in sex scandal.

FBI Vault: Part 8 of 8 refers to "homosexuals".

Read, Elizabeth Fisher

Scholar, attorney, intimate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Life companion of Esther Lape. FBI file?

Robins, Jerome

See: http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/foiaindex_r.htm

Rochester, Anna

does her FBI file refer to homosexuality?

See also: Hutchins, Grace

Röhm, Ernst Julius

Does his FBI file refer to homosexuality?

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Intimate friend of Lorena Hickock, a confirmed lesbian, as well as other lesbians. See Blanche Weisen Cook.

See also: Lorena Hickock

Routsong, Alma

The entry on Routsong in Feminists Who Changed the World says that her short story "Strangers in Camelot" is based on being interrogated by the FBI about her lesbian lifestyle in the 1960s. Her lover of the time, Elizabeth Deran, was employed as an economist by the U.S. Government.

See also Elizabeth Deran who says she was interviewed by the "Secret Service", and that neither she nor Routsong were interviewed by the FBI.

Rukeyser, Muriel

Does her FBI file refer to homosexuality?

Rustin, Bayard

Homosexual, Black civil rights leader.

See: Kenneth O'Reilly, Racial matters: the FBI's secret file on Black America, 1960-1972 (Free Press, 1989), page 148.

Savio, Mario

Leader of free speech movement, Berkley, California, 1960s.

Part 09 of 09 refers to "homosexuality". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.

Schneiderman, Rose

(April 6, 1882 – August 11, 1972) was a prominent United States labor union leader, socialist, and feminist. She had a long-term relationship with Maud O'Farrell Swartz (1879-1937), another working class woman active in the Women's Trade Union League, until Swartz' death in 1937.

Spellman, Francis (Cardinal)

"The FBI maintained close ties with Spellman, largley through Lou Nichols, and later, the New York SAC John Malone, even though Hoovers files contained numerous allegations that Spellman was a very active homosexual." (Gentry, J.E.H., note, page 347).SOURCE????

"By the spring of 1954 Hoover, realizing that he, too, could be charged with having questionable associations [TOLSON], as he had accused so many others of having, was complaining to the president that "McCarthy had reached a point where he was actually impeding the investigation of Communists...." (Gentry, page 436).

Spellman allerted Pope Paul VI in Rome not to have anything to do with Martin Luther King, who was planning a visit.(Gentry, page 570). All quotes from J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets by Curt Gentry.

See also: Francis Joseph Spellman: May 4, 1889—December 2, 1967

Stein, Gertrude

FBI file?

See also Toklas, Alice B.

Stevenson, Adlai.

FBI spread false rumors that he was homosexual. Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 402-403, 445, 478.

Swartz, Maud O'Farrell

(1879-1937), labor organizer, feminist, and long-time partner of Rose Schneiderman (see). FBI file?

Supreme Court, United States

Part 16 of 34 refers to "homosexuality". Part 24 of 34 refers to "lesbian". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.

Shine, G. David

close associate of Roy Cohn and Joseph McCarthy

Sullivan, Noel.

Thurman, Wallace African American writer.

Toklas, Alice B.

FBI file?

See also Gertrude Stein

Tolson, Clyde A.

See also: J. Edgar Hoover

United States Presidential candidate (unnamed).

Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 51.

United States Senator (unnamed).

Cited in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets By Curt Gentry. Page 35.

United States Supreme Court. See "Supreme Court".

Valenti, Jack.

'Gay' Probe of LBJ Aide Associated Press, NY Post, February 20, 2009</ref>

Van Vechten, Carl

Vidal, Gore

of Hot Line with Vidal and others, presented by David Suskind, monitored by FBI

Waco FBI Transcripts Tapes.

Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault. 206 - 207 refers to "homosexuals".

Walsh, Thomas I. [Senator (Democrat)] FBI file?

Warhol, Andy

Welles, Summner

Friend and advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt.

White, Dan

See also: Moscone, Milk

Williams, Tennessee

The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: 1945-1957 by Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin, Nancy Marie Patterson Tischler. Refers to the FBI four times: pages 361, 513, 515, 651.

Winchell, Walter.

Part 58 of 58 refers to "homosexual". Accessed October 11, 2011 from FBI Vault.

X, Malcolm (originally Malcolm Little) African American political activist.

FBI file on FBI website

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