In the past 20 years or so, there have been slews of books by homo authors who read “gay subtexts” into EVERY imagineable old movie. Even things like the Universal monster movies, where the Frankenstein monster is supposed to be some kind of symbol of being a homosexual outcast! The insanity is endless. They have it encompassing everything.
And I even see it every time I venture over to the Internet Movie Database, where submitted old-movie reviews by dingbats will invariably refer to any character played by unglamourous or semi-homely character actresses like Aline MacMahon, Agnes Moorehead and such, as automatically indicative of a “lesbian subtext.” It’s just mind-bogglingly insane. I think this craziness is being circulated throughout academic/college circles, like a lot of other weird liberal-tinged historical revisionism, and young minds are buying it all up, and perpetuating it further, in their internet postings.
His fascination with the Llewelyn Davies boys was certainly not healthy, even if nothing explicitly physical occured.