You do know Ebert is straight right? He's married.
You seem awfully quick to defend Ebert.
He said the gay orgy was "Ebertesque." He did not say Ebert was gay. But it is well-established that Ebert often prefers films that are dark, disturbed, and deal with various perversions. He seems to revel in the tawdry merely for the sake of tawdriness. He just calls it "art." Anything that makes God-fearing red-state Americans squirm and feel uncomfortable, Ebert loves.
It's fairly rare that Ebert praises movies that have redeeming values.
The general consensus has been for years that she's his beard.
Just the same...my point is that he looks like Big Gay Al.
BTW, for a straight guy he sure put much effort into the homosexual love scenes in his Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Must be very sure of his sexual identity back in the day when one never mentioned such things.