George Michael, Boy George, Pete Townshend, now Elton Queen. It’s dangerous to your masculinity to become a British rock musician.
Add to that Freddie Mercury (Queen), Rob Halford (Judas Priest), persistent rumors pertaining to Mick Jagger and David Bowie as well as legions of others I'm sure.
To be fair, most British rock musicians are far better and more successful than the majority of American ones and so we're more likely to hear about the various weirdnesses from them simply because more of them are in the public eye.
If I remember correctly, FReeper ccmay has some interesting perspectives on how Socialist homosexuals have infected Government in the UK for decades.....perhaps there's a link? Perhaps there is some sort of organized encouragement for homosexuals to get into the arts?
The queers in the USA also dominate many arenas of art, but I haven't gotten the impression that they have taken over Government to quite as similar an extent.