They are.
I have never thought about a person, “that person is gay” and it turned out that they weren’t.
It always turns out that they are, even if several years down the road.
So..you are totally right.
As with our governor Crist, his marriage does not prove to me the contrary. When Crist was running for office here I was concerned that he would at some point be compromised by an unnatural relationship and embarrass Florida terribly.