[wideminded]

They were dedicated to a patron, ...

But they were not addressed to the patron.

They may not have been addressed to the patron but they were addressed to a man.

[LexBaird]

They may not have been addressed to the patron but they were addressed to a man.

So says deconstructionist and queer theory. Simply a case of reading into things what they want to. There is no objective evidence to the theory, and plenty of objective evidence that Shakespeare was a randy hetero horndog.