My sexual orientation.

[The BDI]

I think you've missed the point... if he didn't insist on telling the world at large that he was gay..... he may not get hate mail.

I'm not sure that, in a society where we value freedom of speech and (mostly) inclusivity, that one should have to hide a part of their life just to appease or avoid the outrage of a bunch of keyboard warriors.

It says far more about the idiots banging away on their keyboards than it does about him...  Some folks just need to take a chill pill

And yet, rather ironically  I am perhaps one of the few keyboard warriors here who has a position of declared non interest in an individuals sexuality. 
My only gripe is that many expect that I must recognise them upon their disclosure of it.