I saw it, and IMHO the gay scenes were subdued; I thought the movie was horrible. Why? Alexander the Great was alledgedly a stratagic genius; but did the movie give a single example of this genius? No.
The 'action' was a blurry, dusty set of short shots that did not give the viewer any sense of order out of the chaos. I had more questions after the movie, than before I saw the movie. This is exactly what makes a movie a failure, as I knew less after seeing the movie.
The Greeks (and Greek speaking barbarians in the region) had done immensely well with the reforms pioneered by Athens ~ credit unions, plantings of olive trees, fostering of new invention to make work easier, etc.
The Persians didn't have a chance!