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.
I praise him because, at his best, he's a terrific film critic and scholar. He's not always at his best. Anyway he usually points out how whatever tawdriness there is functions in the context of a given film and its not jsut there for pernicious reasons. Remember he hated Blue Velvet.