In sobering news (though it's Monday so practically everything is sobering news), the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program has announced that sexual orientation based crime is the second most frequent hate crime committed, second only to crimes based on race. 

This is according to the 2011 Hate Crimes statistics.

More after the jump.

Other than becoming a real life Homeland storyline, there wasn't much to interest run-of-the-treadmill gays in the hetero affair scandal that lead to David Petraeus's resignation.

Until talk of a shirtless photo from an FBI agent involved in the investigation entered the picture, that is. 

Check out the shirtless photo of FBI Agent Fred Humphries that has the whole world talking after the jump!

As sympathies and heartfelt pleas for an avoidance of violence continues to pour in from both conservatives and liberals (excluding NOM, however), the FBI has released more telling details about alleged Family Research Council shooter Floyd Corkins. 

Separating the LGBT acronym in its analysis of FBI crime statistics for the first time has given the Williams Institute and the gay community a stark look at how gay men are disproportionately victimized by physically violent hate crimes.

Stranger Danger!

An Indiana man has been charged with sexual exploitation of children after allegedly coercing two teenage boys into being his “cam slaves,” by threatening to post videos of them performing sex acts on gay porn sites.

More after the jump.

Men can now be counted as victims of rape according to a definition change at the FBI. Details follow. 

The FBI has released statistics covering the hate crimes that occurred in America in 2010, and, as usual, it's not a shining beacon of positive news for gay men. Details and the breakdown follow.

The FBI, maybe because they are the FBI, believe that rumors of J. Edgar Hoover being gay are just that, rumors. But we are pretty sure of two things: 1) Hoover, being the director and founder of the FBI, would not have been found out if he didn't want to be found out and 2) where there is smoke there is fire. Details after the jump.

Apparently Clint Eastwood and Leonardo DiCaprio aren't sure if J. Edgar Hoover was gay or not, but they sure aren't going to assume so. Quotes after the jump.

It's been revealed this week that the FBI drafted members of the Westboro hate-group for special training sessions. And no, the clan wasn't hired to instruct new recruits how to make dazzlingly psychotic signs (there's a Word template for that)...

The upcoming J. Edgar Hoover biopic already has plenty going for it:

Leonardo DiCaprio stars, Clint Eastwood directs and Dustin Lance Black pens the script. Sounds good, right?

Well not to some in the FBI who believe the slightly unconfirmed image of Hoover as a gay man with a side-hobby as a cross-dresser is somehow insulting.

Terry Booth, a retired FBI agent, tells AOL News that he's upset about Hoover's portrayal as gay. "Obviously it upsets me when he's commonly portrayed wearing a dress or having an alleged relationship with Clyde Tolson. There are those who choose to believe it and those who choose not to. I think 99 percent of the agents don't believe it." 

Greg Stejskal, another retired agent and a columnist for Tickle The...

We may have had a feeling that things were bad, but little did we know that hate crimes against GLBT Americans increased by 11% in 2008, according to the FBI. The sobering statistic was only released today, but already the Human Rights Campaign has issued a response.

Said HRC President Joe Solmonese, “These numbers are unacceptable. While it is so important that we have the new federal hate crimes law, it is critical to ensure that we continue working with the Department of Justice to ensure the safety of LGBT citizens.”

Solmonese went on to say, "We have to prosecute each hate crime to the fullest extent of the law, but we also need to get at the roots. When we don't know each other as human beings, ignorance breeds misunderstanding,...