U.S. fans of James Franco will be able to see him ‘do’ gay poet Allen Ginsberg in Howl from 24 September. The movie has just been picked up for distribution and will be released simultaneously in limited theaters and VOD…

…Gay director Bryan Singer risks some harmless innuendo with his latest project, a re-imagining of the Jack and the Giant Beanstalk fairytale that has farmer Jack recruited to save a princess after her kidnapping breaks the truce between humans and giants. Jack the Giant-Killer is being written by frequent Singer-collaborator, Chris McQuarrie, and shoots this Summer…

…Hollywood star gives good acceptance speech shocker! Accepting her GLAAD ‘Vanguard Award’ last weekend, Drew Barrymore talked of the hugely positive influence gay people have had on her life from an early age and spoke up for all-inclusive family life, no matter what shape or form it comes in…

…and finally, rumours say that Leonardo DiCaprio may be putting on a slinky, black number to play J. Edgar Hoover in Clint Eastwood and Dustin Lance Black’s biopic of the scary former FBI boss.

Black tells E! Online, “we all have these assumptions about Hoover. Was he this or was he that? Was he a cross-dresser? Was he gay? Was he as villainous as we all think he might have been? Was there ever any light to him?”