This is not new to me. I heard that he was gay years ago. No big deal, he was a great entertainer. It's to bad we don't see much of him anymore or others who were popular in the 70s. Kids now don't even know who he is, and that is sad.
I am shocked, really. I remember watching an interview with him years ago and he was talking about his girlfriend and how she cried at one of his songs.