If he had run as a gayder it would have been bad but not half as bad as the fraud he perpetrated, posing as a happily married man.
Two weeks after proposing marriage to his now-ex, he went to Israel, brought back Cipel, and installed him in an apartment closeby his then-mayor's office, for late night assignations.
He then married and impregnated his wife just in time to pose for "family" photo ops for the governor's race.
You got that exactly right.
IMO, when the corruption was getting too much, I believe he decided to use the gay-ness as a "cover" as to why he resigned. But the corruption was horrifically worse.