If that's the way you choose to see this issue, then, that's cool. I don't knock you for your views on the issue. It's an issue for me, though, because he was an early strong Black male icon. To me, for him to be gay is kind of a slap in the face, because there weren't many strong Black male icons on screen at the time. To cast and make a star out of a gay Black man back then when Hollywood (or whoever) could have found a straight Black man for others Black males to emulate is wrong in my opinion.