He may have been out or he may have just showed up with his friend. I doubt whether they announced it to his students or proclaimed it from the altar. Have a ceremony and a license takes it to a new level.
The concocted word “gay” can mean just about a dozen things, including:
- that you experience same-sex attraction but you never act on it;
- that you repudiate your own same-sex attraction;
- that you want to act on these impulses in private; or
- that you are an activist pushing society in the direction of perversion, like this former teacher was.
The first two can be excused if the subject is sincere. The other conditions should disqualify him immediately.