“Adoring photos,” huh? Somehow I’m glad I haven’t seen those. Yet, “extensive evidence points to it [their relationship] being simply an unusually close friendship,” Kessler concludes, the “extensive evidence” mostly being assurances from his FBI buddies, with whom Ron obviously wants to be on good terms, and who somehow are willing to admit that Hoover broke the law on innumerable occasions, but somehow never with Tolson In any event, I also have extensive evidence on the matter, which points in the other direction, in the form of a transcript of one of Clyde and Edgar’s photo shoots.
“Edgar! That ascot!”
“You like it?”
“I love it! So FBI! Are you going to arrest me, officer?”
“I’m afraid I’m going to have to cuff you, miss.”
“You are so awful!”
“Turn your head a little, so the light catches your profile.”
“My makeup’s a mess.”
“It is not. Lick your lips. Not like that! You are so bad!”
“No, you are!”
“No, you are!”
[Sounds of feral grunting]
Case closed, Ron, case closed.
Afterwords
Edgar and Clyde pursued commies when they weren’t pursuing each other, much in the manner of McCarthy staffers Roy Cohn and G. David Shine. And “footloose and fancy-free” Whittaker Chambers* occasionally accosted a likely lad when he wasn’t battling the Red Menace. I guess you could say that gays saved America, back in the day.
*Chambers so described himself to the FBI in secret testimony he gave at the time of the Hiss trial, fearing that evidence of his homosexual activities might be made public by Hiss’s supporters. Chambers claimed in his testimony that he only engaged in homosexual activities while a Communist, but of course in public he denied having ever engaged in them at all.
