Was j Edgar a transvestite or gay?

According to a single witness, Susan Rosenstiel, interviewed by one of his major biographers, yes. Much more widely accepted and supported is that Hoover was a closeted homosexual. However, not all gay men are transvestites, and not all transvestites are gay men, so his gayness does not prove anything about his possible transvestite activities.

"In his 1993 biography Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover, Anthony Summers quoted a witness who claimed to have seen Hoover engaging in cross-dressing and homosexual acts on two occasions in the 1950s."