There are always exceptions, and he sounds like one of them: Just as there are women who don’t toe the party line of feminism.
We grew up in a very conservative rural town and he lived next door to my grandmother who called him “Peculiar”. He’s one of the rare few who were gay from day one.
It was obvious to the rest of us because he was always most comfortable with girls and was my sister’s best friend. He got all excited about the royal wedding (Charles and Diana). He was married twice to women 20 and 30 years older than himself. Oddly enough he’s an avid hunter and fisherman.