Disappointed. He was extremely funny playing opposite Prof. Peter Schickele (P.D.Q. Bach) and didn’t take himself nor his talent too seriously. Made very little of his disability from polio.
Oh, well.
Yes, disappointing, for the reasons you stated.
Meanwhile, Perlman has played in both the USSR and China, whose regimes weren’t exactly LGBTQ-friendly, to put it mildly. Another leftist hypocrite.