I’ve seen lots of speculation about that, but nobody who can actually vouch for Big Ears having initiated a “gay” sex act. (How he could have been molested by family or mentors is another question, and that doesn’t mean he must be “gay” any more than a robbery subject must be a “spendthrift” or a murder subject a “suicide.”)
The social dialogue about homosexuality is hard enough to navigate through the rancor without bringing bogosities like this into it.
New coinage? I like it.
He was a member of Man’s Country, a gay bath house club, in Chicago. Larry Sinclair’s book.
What more do you need?