It was the second worst day of J. Edgar Hoover’s life.

On May 2, 1969, Screw published Issue #11 with our infamous cover story, “Is J. Edgar Hoover a Fag?” — publicly calling-out the nation’s first FBI director and hero of the Conservatives, personally, on his sexuality, and the entire Nixon administration on its hypocrisy. This simple headline ignited a ruthless, personal vendetta against Screw and publisher Al Goldstein, that continued even after Hoover’s death which, by the way, was the number one, worst day of his life — May 2, 1972 — exactly three years later, to the day, of the headline…