Now... to move onto my disgust with the media: Him being gay doesn't have anything to do with his suicide. The article portrayed as if he took his life because he couldn't find love, and didn't agree with society. It didn't really mention that he had any form of great torment, which would make that fact irrelevant. It seems the media feels they have to report on him just because he is gay.
I wondered this myself. Nothing in there was really about him being gay. The closest it got to that was that he wanted a boyfriend, but I mean, straight or gay, there are a lot of people that want a bf/gf. So yeah. The part about him being gay really isn't the kicker here. The depression seemed to get him, not anything pertaining to his sexuality.