There were running flashbacks to him being in love with his childhood friend. And the "romantic" subplot also heavily features him being gay and therefore not actually able to marry her.
Right, but the film was structured in a traditional Hollywood way with a love story subplot with a woman which is a bizarre choice when it's about a gay man. The author of the biography the film was based on said their relationship was exaggerated for the film.
I guess my point is that the movie was clearly sympathetic to his situation as a gay man. They exaggerated lots of things and the entire thing was overdramatized and poorly written, but I just don't think it's correct to argue that they minimized that issue.
