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April 2, 2010 Posted by GorgeousBoys in Celebrity Gossip

Leonardo DiCaprio May Play J. Edgar Hoover In New Film

Leonardo DiCaprio is considering playing gay in the upcoming Clint Eastwood biopic of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, Entertainment Weekly reported. Legendary actor-director Eastwood is reportedly wooing DiCaprio to play the film's lead. “It sounds interesting to say the least,” DiCaprio told EW. “There's no contract, no anything, but I'm a huge fan of Clint's.” On board is screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, who won a 2008 Oscar for Milk, the Gus Van Sant biopic film about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected man in the United States. The news comes on the heels of the announcement that two additional Hollywood heavyweights are preparing to play gay. Bourne trilogy star Matt Damon will star opposite Michael Douglas in an upcoming film about the life of uber-entertainer Liberace. Douglas will play the flamboyant pianist, while Damon will take on the role of Scott Thornson, Liberace's alleged lover. Hoover vehemently denied rumors that he was gay and even appeared obsessed with the sexuality of powerful people. His secret files reportedly included surveillance material on Eleanor Roosevelt's alleged lesbian lovers.

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March 1, 2010 Posted by GorgeousBoys in Celebrity Gossip

'Milk' Writer Dustin Lance Black pens J. Edgar Hoover Biopic

 Before Gus Van Sant’s film Milk was released, many people who didn’t watch Big Love wondered “who the hell is Dustin Lance Black?” That’s the young writer who made his name on Big Love, and whose name was credited large in trailers for his collaboration with Van Sant. After seeing Milk, the question was more like, “when will we see more from this guy?” Giving a great thank-you speech when accepting his Oscar for writing Milk helped cement interest in Black. Well, Black is currently finishing up What’s Wrong with Virginia, the film he wrote and directed that stars Ed Harris and Jennifer Connelly. And now it seems like he’s been tapped to write a biopic based on the life of J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the FBI and one of the most famous lawmen in the world. Pajiba reports that Black is writing the script for Ron Howard’s company Imagine Entertainment. While I’m not wild about the idea of Imagine being behind the film, that’s a really interesting hire. Black is very interested in representing the interests of gay culture, and has spoken passionately about young gay men and women being able to safely come out. Hoover was reportedly a cross-dresser and some claim he was homosexual. Read more: Milk Writer Dustin Lance Black Penning J. Edgar Hoover Biopic?
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November 24, 2009 Posted by GorgeousBoys in News And Scoops

FBI Data Sees Rise In Hate Crimes

fbiThe number of US hate crime victims rose slightly last year to nearly 9,700 from 9,500 in 2007, with most people targeted because of their skin color, the FBI said Monday. More than half of hate crimes committed in the United States were racially motivated and three-quarters of the victims of those attacks were black, the FBI's annual report on hate crimes said. Of the 6,927 known perpetrators of all hate crimes -- which include attacks driven by not only racial bias but also by the victims' religious affiliation, sexual orientation, ethnic origins or disability -- 61 percent were white. Blacks perpetrated attacks in around 20 percent of cases. The report comes weeks after President Barack Obama, the first black US president, signed into law the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which beefed up existing legislation by adding attacks fueled by biases against sexual orientation, gender identity and disability to the list of offenses that constitute hate crimes. The new law was named after two men killed in separate US hate crimes. Shepard, 21, died in October 1988 after being beaten by two men because he was gay, while Byrd, 49, was killed in June 1998 by three men in Texas who dragged him behind their truck. He was African-American. In 2008, around 17 percent of hate crime victims were attacked because of their sexual orientation. The overwhelming majority, 96 percent, were gay or lesbian, the FBI report said. Nearly 20 percent were attacked for their religious affiliation, with Jews making up around two-thirds of the victims of those crimes. Muslims were the targets of less than eight percent of religious hate crimes, putting them in third place behind Jews and followers of unspecified "other religions" attacked in 13 percent of religion-fueled hate crimes. In 2007, Muslims represented about eight percent of victims attacked because of their religion, and in 2006 they made up 12 percent of victims of religion-motivated hate crimes. Members of the large US Hispanic community were victims of 64 percent, or nearly two-thirds, of the 1,148 hate crimes driven by a bias against a person's ethnicity or national origin. Most hate crimes targeting individuals were intimidation or simple assault, but seven murders and 11 rapes were counted among the hate crime statistics. The FBI compiled the report using data submitted by 13,690 law enforcement agencies in most of the 50 states. More than 80 percent of the participating agencies reported no hate crimes in their jurisdictions in 2008. The report, which has been compiled since 1992, is not intended to track a trend in hate crimes as the number of law enforcement agencies around the country that submit data for it varies from year to year, the FBI said. But civil and human rights organizations have said hate crimes have risen more steeply than the two percent year-on-year increase indicated in the FBI report. In a report issued in June, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) said the number of hate groups operating in the United States increased more than four percent in 2008 and has grown by 54 percent since 2000. The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights has said the election of Obama combined with the financial crisis and immigration have made for a lethal cocktail leading to a spike in hate crimes. And US Attorney General Eric Holder -- who is African-American -- has said that some 80,000 hate crimes incidents have been reported to the FBI since he first testified before Congress in favor of hate crimes legislation 11 years ago. The number of US hate crime victims rose slightly last year to nearly 9,700 from 9,500 in 2007, with most people targeted because of their skin color, the FBI said Monday. More than half of hate crimes committed in the United States were racially motivated and three-quarters of the victims of those attacks were black, the FBI's annual report on hate crimes said. Of the 6,927 known perpetrators of all hate crimes -- which include attacks driven by not only racial bias but also by the victims' religious affiliation, sexual orientation, ethnic origins or disability -- 61 percent were white. Blacks perpetrated attacks in around 20 percent of cases. The report comes weeks after President Barack Obama, the first black US president, signed into law the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which beefed up existing legislation by adding attacks fueled by biases against sexual orientation, gender identity and disability to the list of offenses that constitute hate crimes. The new law was named after two men killed in separate US hate crimes. Shepard, 21, died in October 1988 after being beaten by two men because he was gay, while Byrd, 49, was killed in June 1998 by three men in Texas who dragged him behind their truck. He was African-American. In 2008, around 17 percent of hate crime victims were attacked because of their sexual orientation. The overwhelming majority, 96 percent, were gay or lesbian, the FBI report said. Nearly 20 percent were attacked for their religious affiliation, with Jews making up around two-thirds of the victims of those crimes. Muslims were the targets of less than eight percent of religious hate crimes, putting them in third place behind Jews and followers of unspecified "other religions" attacked in 13 percent of religion-fueled hate crimes. In 2007, Muslims represented about eight percent of victims attacked because of their religion, and in 2006 they made up 12 percent of victims of religion-motivated hate crimes. Members of the large US Hispanic community were victims of 64 percent, or nearly two-thirds, of the 1,148 hate crimes driven by a bias against a person's ethnicity or national origin. Most hate crimes targeting individuals were intimidation or simple assault, but seven murders and 11 rapes were counted among the hate crime statistics. The FBI compiled the report using data submitted by 13,690 law enforcement agencies in most of the 50 states. More than 80 percent of the participating agencies reported no hate crimes in their jurisdictions in 2008. The report, which has been compiled since 1992, is not intended to track a trend in hate crimes as the number of law enforcement agencies around the country that submit data for it varies from year to year, the FBI said. But civil and human rights organizations have said hate crimes have risen more steeply than the two percent year-on-year increase indicated in the FBI report. In a report issued in June, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) said the number of hate groups operating in the United States increased more than four percent in 2008 and has grown by 54 percent since 2000. The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights has said the election of Obama combined with the financial crisis and immigration have made for a lethal cocktail leading to a spike in hate crimes. And US Attorney General Eric Holder -- who is African-American -- has said that some 80,000 hate crimes incidents have been reported to the FBI since he first testified before Congress in favor of hate crimes legislation 11 years ago.
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April 10, 2009 Posted by TheBoss in Celebrity Gossip, Crime & Punishment

Oprah Show Scam

oprah_winfrey240The FBI and Oprah Winfrey herself, through a message on her Web site, are warning fans to beware of scams that fraudulently use the TV queen's name in a fake $1 million giveaway. Among the latest is the "Oprah Millionaire Contest Show," in which recipients are informed they have been "nominated" to appear on an episode of Winfrey's show where $1 million will be awarded. They are further told they must purchase – from the sender of the message – a transportation ticket to Chicago and pay to get into the show. One such alleged scammer – apparently, "at least a dozen" exist, according to the Winfrey Web site – lists its return address as "Harpo Productions" at Studio 54 in Seattle. Winfrey's operations, which are indeed called Harpo Productions, are based in Chicago – and its show tickets are free. The real Harpo Productions has issued a statement emphasizing that the company and the show "are not sponsors nor do we have any involvement whatsoever with this e-mail solicitation." Individuals who receive such unauthorized solicitations are urged to file a report with the FBI at the Internet Crime Complaint Center, which "accepts online Internet crime complaints from either the person who believes they were defrauded or from a third party to the complainant," says its Web site.

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February 24, 2009 Posted by Matthew Conaster in Crime & Punishment

Prostitution Raid

arrestsLaw enforcement officials arrested more than 500 people, and took custody of 48 juveniles in a coordinated 29-city weekend sweep aimed at combating child prostitution, the FBI announced Monday. Task forces made up largely of state and local police officers arrested and booked what authorities said were 464 adult prostitutes, 55 pimps and 55 customers on state charges. While most faced local charges, a senior FBI official said he expected there were would be some federal charges as well. The FBI Monday said 19 searches were conducted, netting a total of $438,000 in cash, plus illegal drugs, cars and computers. The four dozen juveniles were recovered in the third phase of Operation Cross Country, an initiative that seeks to help child prostitutes and crack down on people who control them and patronize them. mapIn the previous coordinated operations, authorities recovered 21 alleged child prostitutes last June and 47 in October. In 2003 the FBI, Department of Justice prosecutors, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children launched what was called the Innocence Lost National Initiative to address what had become a growing problem of children forced into prostitution. Many were young runaways. Officials say the 32 Innocence Lost task forces formed nationwide have now recovered about 670 children in the six years, and seized more than $3 million in cash. The most recent operation involved law enforcement agencies in several states including California, Alaska, Michigan, Georgia, Colorado, Oregon, Alabama, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Illinois, Texas, Florida, Ohio, Minnesota and Arizona.
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February 19, 2009 Posted by Matthew Conaster in Celebrity Gossip

Jack Was Gay ?

farleftAccording to a recent Washington Post article, in 1964, the FBI under then director J. Edgar Hoover tried to ascertain whether Jack Valenti, then a White House aide, was gay. No proof was ever found, but the revelation illustrates how the FBI operated during the Hoover years. The investigation seemed to focus on Jack Valenti's relationship with a male photographer that one FBI memo described as having "--the reputation of being a homosexual." The investigation did not find any evidence that Jack Valenti ever had a same sex relationship. Jack Valenti was a happily married man at the time of the investigation and, when he was a bachelor, was known to date attractive women. Jack Valenti is pictured here at Lyndon Johnson's swearing in aboard Air Force One. He is in the far left.

After a three year stint at the White House, Jack Valenti became head of the Motion Picture Association and became the chief lobbyist for the motion picture industry in Washington. Jack Valenti held the job until 2004, shortly before his death. Jack Valenti was best known for being behind the creation of the MPAA rating system used with films today (Rated R, PG, G).

valentiThe investigation of Jack Valenti's sexual preference by the FBI was part of a strategy by J. Edgar Hoover to gain leverage over the White House by obtaining embarrassing secrets. That strategy was one reason why Hoover remained director of the FBI until his death in 1972. Presidents during Hoover's long term as FBI Director would interfere with the operation of the FBI at their peril.

There has also been a suggestion of a deeper, more psychological reason for investigations of people like Jack Valenti for their sexual preference. J. Edgar Hoover was rumored to have been gay himself. Hoover, who never married, had a long term personal relationship with his aide Clyde Tolson.

Nevertheless, in the early 1960s, allegations of homosexuality could ruin a political career, something then President Lyndon Johnson was concerned about. According to the documents obtained by the Washington Post, then White House aide and current liberal public TV commentator Bill Moyers sought information on the sexual preference of members of the White House staff.

Even in these more enlightened times, allegations of homosexuality can be damaging to a political career, if the right person is accused. Liberal Democrats, such as Congressman Barney Frank, can live outside the closet with impunity. But conservative Republican Senator Larry Craig was damaged by accusations that he had tried to solicit sex from an undercover police officer in an airport men's room. Craig, unlike Frank, was insistent that he is not gay and that the accusations were false.

Source: Valenti's Sexuality Was Topic For FBI, Joe Stephens, Washington Post, February 19th, 2009

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October 29, 2008 Posted by HumanRightsCampaign in Crime & Punishment

Gay Hate Crimes Rise

FBI Report Shows Gay Hate Crimes Up for Third Year In a Row

Tuesday 28th October 2008 A new FBI report has revealed that while the number of hate crimes overall in the United States have dropped, hate crimes against homosexuals have risen. There were 7,624 hate crimes reported across the US in 2007, although the number of actual hate crimes could be larger as many people are afraid to report hate attacks. Those numbers reflect a small drop, about 1%, of hate crimes from the 2006 numbers. Hate crimes based on sexual orientation, including all gays, lesbians and bisexuals and some attacks on transgender individuals that were based on the assumption the victim was gay, rose to 1,265. That’s an increase of about 6% from 2006. Hate crimes against the LGB community have been rising steadily in the past few years, even as racially based hate crimes drop. Hate crimes against gays were the third most common crimes, with attacks on African-Americans and Jews being the first and second most common hate crimes. As crimes against gays grew, so too did attacks on certain other communities. Attacks against Muslims dropped, a trend some analysts attribute to the effects of 9/11 waning. However, Latino and Asian individuals were targeted more as the economy worsened. Some analysts suggest that people are taking out their frustration with the poor economy by blaming immigrants for “taking their jobs”. Criminologist Jack Levin of Northwestern University told USA Today: "Working-class Americans feel they have to compete more with immigrants.” While hate crime attacks on gays increased, in many places anti-gay attacks are not classed as hate crimes. More than a third of the states in the country do not include sexual orientation in their hate crime laws. This means, in practice, that attacks on gays and lesbians in 19 states are treated as simple assault, vandalism or intimidation. The punishment for assault is far less than the mandatory sentences given to people convicted of hate crimes, so anti-gay attackers in those states do not face stiff penalties for their hate crimes. Neil Giuliano, president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, told USA Today: "Until we make laws that make it clear these attacks are not OK, the nation will continue to be scarred." The FBI report draws on reports from nearly 14,000 law enforcement agencies across the country. The report itself is a simple statistical report, and does not attempt to explain the rise or fall in hate crimes against certain groups although many analysts have attempted to give explanations themselves.
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September 2, 2008 Posted by Matthew Conaster in News And Scoops

Judge to say if jury learns suspects' porn-escort past

County judge expected to rule this week on motions related to Cuadra/Kerekes trial

Will accused killers Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes be tried together or separately for the murder of Bryan Kocis in Dallas Township in January 2007? Can their history of working as male escorts and producers of gay pornographic films, referred to in court filings as, “alleged prior bad acts,” be used by prosecutors to undermine their character? And will prosecutors be permitted to introduce a number of pieces of potentially incriminating evidence, including recordings and transcripts of conversations in which Cuadra and Kerekes told acquaintances intimate details about the murder? Luzerne County Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr. could answer those questions and more this week, when he is expected to rule on more than a dozen of the pre-trial motions filed by attorneys for Cuadra and Kerekes within the last four months.

Cuadra, 26, and Kerekes, 34, both of Virginia Beach, Va., are accused of killing Kocis, a rival producer of gay pornographic films, and later setting fire to his Midland Drive home. They face the death penalty and are scheduled to be tried together beginning Jan. 5, following the postponement of an original Sept. 2 start date. Attorneys for Cuadra and Kerekes have argued the one-time lovers and business partners have developed an “adversarial” relationship, with conflicting defense strategies, and should be tried separately. According to notices of possible alibi defense filed by both defendants, Cuadra and Kerekes could claim they were in Room 211 of the Fox Ridge Motel in Plains Township at the time Kocis was killed, 12 miles away. However, Kerekes has stated in conversations with acquaintance Renee Martin that he was in the room alone while Cuadra visited Kocis. “The jury will have no choice but to disbelieve the testimony offered on behalf of one of the defendants in order to believe the testimony offered on behalf of the other defendant,” attorneys for Cuadra and Kerekes said in a brief filed Aug. 6. In addition to the request for separate trials, attorneys for Cuadra and Kerekes have asked Olszewski to prohibit prosecutors from using statements Kerekes made to police immediately after his arrest in May 2007, conversations Cuadra and Kerekes had with Sean Lockhart and Grant Roy in San Diego in April 2007, e-mail messages Cuadra sent to Kocis in the days before the killing, and evidence seized from the home where Cuadra and Kerekes lived in Viriginia Beach that linked them to Kocis. Kerekes testified at a pre-trial hearing last month that the police interview, conducted May 15, 2007, at the headquarters of the Viriginia Beach Police Department, should be suppressed because the investigators, Cpl. Leo Hannon of state police and Special Agent James J. Glenn of the FBI, violated his right to an attorney. “They walked into the room and I said, ‘I want a lawyer,’” Kerekes said during brief testimony that was limited to the post-arrest police interview. “It was the first thing out of my mouth.” The investigators continued to ask questions about Kerekes’ employment history, military history, personal relationships and other background, the attorneys said. Kerekes began to cry during the interview and “swore on his mother’s life that he was not the one” who killed Kocis. Kerekes volunteered information about a motive, and hinted at his possible involvement, as he denied knowledge of a telephone conversation between Cuadra and Lockhart on Jan. 25, the day after the killing. According to prosecutors, Cuadra directed Lockhart to read about Kocis’ death on wnep.com, the Web site of WNEP-TV, and allegedly said, “I guess my guy went overboard.” “Are you going to believe the words from the lips of that boy?” Kerekes said during the police interview, referring to Lockhart, who starred in gay pornographic films produced by Kocis. “It wasn’t about money. We have money.” The attorneys questioned the validity of the San Diego conversations because of conflicts in California and Pennsylvania law governing the use of hidden recording devices by investigators and because Roy, who volunteered to wear such a device, had originally been identified as a suspect in Kocis’ death. Kocis had, until days before his death, been locked in a lawsuit with Roy and Lockhart over Lockhart’s ability to work for other companies using his stage name, Brent Corrigan. “It was quick. He never saw it coming,” Cuadra said, according to transcripts of the San Diego conversations. “Actually seeing that (expletive) go down,” Cuadra said later in the transcript, allegedly referring to Kocis. “It’s actually sick, but it made me feel better inside.” The e-mail messages, obtained by prosecutors through six search warrants from Jan. 30, 2007, to Aug. 27, 2007, show Cuadra established communication with Kocis on Jan. 22, two days before his death. Cuadra wrote to Kocis posing as an inexperienced pornographic film actor named “Danny Moilin.” He created an e-mail address on Jan. 22, 2007, solely to contact Kocis, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said Cuadra created the Moilin character as a ruse to gain a private meeting with Kocis, 46, who led a nearly reclusive life. Cuadra sent Kocis photographs of himself, tying him to the Moilin character, and ordered an online background check of Kocis days before the murder, prosecutors said. Cuadra also called Kocis on a cell phone purchased and used to call only Kocis, and rented a vehicle that was seen by witnesses in Kocis’ driveway around the time of the killing, prosecutors said. Attorneys for Cuadra said the search warrants used to obtain the e-mail messages, from Yahoo, Excite and MySpace, were granted without sufficient probable cause.
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