Choices have consequences, and so does public speech.  He's gay?  So?  Big deal.  But his politics are scathing and they led him to say some dreadfully repulsive things.

So it looks like his words caught up with him and brought him low, as they have for so many others.  I can't muster up any sympathy for him, because he positioned and sold himself as the quintessential troll.  

"For as ye sow, so shall ye reap".