By now you’ve probably heard about Clint Eastwood’s new movie, J. Edgar, which sees Leonardo DiCaprio playing FBI founder and longtime chief J. Edgar Hoover. The film also deals with rumours that he was a repressed homosexual. With the film recently released in the US, it’s now time for those who can’t stand the idea that anyone they admire might have been gay to step forward and get indignant.

The Washington Post has an interesting article about current and former FBI agents who are up in arms about the movie. Perhaps most interesting is how upset they seem, even though the film doesn’t paint Hoover as living a full-on gay life, just that he may have been a repressed homosexual, whose incredibly close but probably non-sexual relationship with Clyde Tolson may have been based in genuine love.

Former agent Gregg Schwarz apparently felt so strongly he went as far as to hire a videographer to help him make a Youtube response to the movie, filmed next to Hoover’s grave. In the video, titled ‘Dirty Harry To Filthy Harry’, he says, “Mr. Hoover was portrayed as an individual who had homosexual tendencies and was a tyrannical monster. That is simply not true.”

Most of the ire is said to come from agents who started their career when Hoover was still at the agency and who still revere him. Even so, the anger many have shown does seem extreme, as the movie doesn’t actually go all that much further than the historical record shows, with its main speculation being that Hoover and Tolson really loved one another, not that they conducted a massive, sex-filled ilicit affair..

Hoover’s admirer have put him on a pedestal and while they like to proclaim about ‘facts’, they don’t seem to realise that their interpretation of the known ‘facts’ about Hoover, is just that, an interpretation. Eastwood may not have got it 100% right, but it’s a far less sensationalistic portrayal than you might have expected from Hollywood. Either way, head over to the Washington Post as the article is quite interesting.

Ricky Martin could go where Gwyneth Paltrow has gone before. The gay singer-actor (who will appear in Eviat on Broadway next year) is in talks to guest star on Fox’s musical dramedy Glee.

As first reported by TV Line, the former General Hospital star would play a musically inclined Spanish teacher in an episode slated to air in late January. The guest gig would also see Martin headline two big musical numbers.

Read more at: ‘Glee’ Courting Ricky Martin for Guest Spot – Hollywood Reporter.

It’s a pretty harsh assessment, but director Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives), has told the Irish Times that, “Being gay has ruined my life”. In an interview ahead of the release of his first movie in ten years, the Rachel Wiesz starring Deep Blue Sea, he touched upon his sexuality and didn’t give it a particularly good assessment.

He says, “I hate it [being gay]. I’ll go to my grave hating it. Which is why I have been celibate. One-night stands are not for me. I was not good looking. I did not have a good body. Nobody was interested when I was young. Now I am old. I am still not good looking. I know what I am. I will always loathe it. It has killed part of my soul.”

Davies was born in 1945 and so grew up during a time when homosexual behaviour was illegal. While you’d have hoped he’d have managed to enjoy the days of gay liberation through the 70s and 80s, it seems he, like many older men, has never truly come to terms with his sexuality.

He says that once after a screening of his 1983 work, The Terence Davies Trilogy, a man complained that its bleak view of gay life was excessive. “It was the only time I’ve been rude in those situations. I said: ‘Sit down! How dare you say that? You’re good looking. You don’t know what it’s like to grow up in a time and place where homosexuality was illegal. Sit down!’”

It’s certainly interesting how much he links being happy with your sexuality with being good looking.

However he’s decided he hates being gay and that nothing is going to change that. Indeed he seems to have little desire to come to terms with it. It’s a great shame though, especially as he also says, “Well, most of the time I put a front on. I like a good laugh. I have a good sense of humour. But I am very lonely. Very lonely indeed.”

Archie Comics’ gay pal Kevin Keller is getting married.

In a first for mainstream comic books, gay marriage will be the storyline in the January edition of the “Life with Archie” series, as the characters of fictional Riverdale gather for the wedding of Kevin and his partner.

Readers will learn that Kevin meets his future husband, Clay, in a military hospital after being wounded while serving in the United States Armed Forces.

“Kevin followed in his father’s footsteps and is returning to Riverdale as a war hero, but that’s not all — It’s Kevin’s wedding day!” Archie Comics said, in a release.

Kevin was introduced to Archie fans in 2010, becoming the first gay character in the series’ 70 year history.

Read More At: Archie Comics’ gay pal Kevin Keller is getting married – LGBTQ Nation.