1 they "gay thing" was already in the books (reading between lines) and specially if you consider affinity and close friendship between man as gay (did you saw any penetrations there?),

2 There are friendships better than sex (and i mean it with friends of both sex) in the sense you can be closer to em than with people you knew and went to bed with that same night ...

3 Penetration between males, have you tested it? I hadnt. So if the response is no as mines, you cant speack with knowledge of it...

4 Expanded freedom form restrictive society: maybe if he had wroted it now it would be explicit, who knows.

5 And lets supose they are gays... so what. And as for the success of the movie, then again so what: you americans seem to love Almodovar´s movies even if theres always some gay thingie in em...

(you can simplyfiy mu position as i dont care a shit they are gays, as long as thay are cool people.... and if they ever feel interest on you (and its unwanted) just state it and theyll desist)