He's certainly not alone as a self-loathing, (formerly) closeted homosexual cleric.  But I suspect he's been pretty much isolated from and by his former colleagues.  Generally speaking, they're cowards -- afraid, perhaps, of guilt by association; or aware that the same fate could be out there for them.  The closet is a profoundly unhealthy and dangerous way to live -- and Catholic discipline effectively demands that, as much as -- more than -- celibacy, for its gay priests.