Was Leonardo Gay?

There has been alot of speculation that Leonardo was gay.
Sigmund Freud outed him (and blamed his mother) back in 1910.
Kenneth Clark, an art historian, felt that Leonardo was probably a
(passive) homosexual.

What is absolutely untrue is the reference in The Da Vinci Code to
Leonardo's reputation as a "flamboyant homosexual". He was not known
as such. Historical evidence is sketchy about the latter, and the only thing
Leonardo was "flamboyant" about was his inability to finish projects he
started. Leonardo was rumored to have been homosexual by his
contemporaries.

He was, in fact, twice charged with sodomy in 1476. Though he was
imprisoned for two months, the charges were dropped for lack of witnesses.
It must be noted that he was not the only person charged with sodomizing
the individual in this particular case. In fact, the "victim" was a 17 year old
rent boy.

Additionally, accusing someone of sodomy, in 15th century Florence, was
not an infrequent tactic used to cause someone else trouble. Leonardo was
anonymously accused, and it's quite tempting to speculate that the accuser
was a lesser-talented artist.

Leonardo never married. If he had female lovers, they have some really,
really carefully hidden identities. None of that would make him gay by
default. (It would go some ways toward explaining, however, lack of a
readily available nude female model.)

He drew a lot more young men in his notebooks than women. One
might assume, from this, that the male figure was more interesting to
Leonardo than was the female.

Some of the young men he drew were nude. One might assume that this
was either (a) a reflection of Leonardo's interest in human anatomy, (b) a
reflection of Leonardo's interest in naked men, (c) a combination of the two
or (d) none of the above. There is always a danger of (d) being the case, when
it comes to making assumptions.

It might also explain John's gender-bending appearance in "The Last Supper".
"John" is no anomaly, bolt out of the blue or unprecedented mystery. There
is more than one instance of Leonardo portraying a guy as a "pretty", young guy.