Interesting, so he might have been a switch hitter.
As far as anybody knows, he was a virgin until his death. He would never have considered himself to be "homosexual" or "bisexual" or anything of the sort. He was very much a Christian in faith and morals, and even moreso, in his conception of the human condition..
Not everything that is emotional, even passionately emotional, is sexual. Deep attachments between men --- heterosexual men --- used to be the stuff of war stories and explorer/adventurer stories. It's the stuff of the epics and of the classics.
Let's not demean and kill profound male friendship under the suffocation assumption that it's all about sex.