You bring up something I forgot about. He very well may have been at odds with his own possible latent homosexuality. It would only be that much more depressing if part of his pathology was stemming from viewing queerness as weak/wrong/whatever and it festering as self hatred.
Didn't he grow up or attend most of his school in England? The land of Boy George, Elton John, Pete Townshend and George Michael. Theory does not compute.