He certainly looks like it to me. The post after yours indicates that it apparently states in the article that he is, but I didn't read it myself.
I hope the dogs didn’t eat any contaminated jab flesh before they found his corpse?
The article didn’t say he was gay explicitly, but it certainly gave that impression. Maybe his uncle who talked about his nephew was also gay. It talked about them being companions, but maybe it just comes across as homosexual.
Very likely was engaging in HIV sex with the dogs. This is the type of employee that the New York Times covets. /spit