If you don't see the beating of Angel as repressed homosexuality, I have to ask... why did he beat Angel till his face was deformed? Why did he watch Tyler and Angel chatting intimately, then suddenly want to beat Angel half to death when previously he had no problem with him? The superhero world of "male fantasy wish-fulfillment" is exactly why superheroes have big muscles, but (as has been discussed on the boards) it's very rarely sexualised. He imagined intimate times with Tyler, sitting with him naked in a bath (in fact a lot of his times with Tyler involved Tyler in few clothes). It was beyond "wish-fulfillment"; it was heavily focused on a sexual nature.
The movie's driving force is Freddie and his life, in the nicest possible way it's insincere to pretend the film was purely "about Queen and their music." The remaining band members wanted it to be that, but the film wasn't. It was the Freddie show, and we all know it. AND WITH THAT IN MIND, it did a p*ss poor job focusing on his sexuality. Which was a huge part of his life, not a footnote of 5 minutes in a 2hr 14mins film. Also it's just a little bit disrespectful. He was a trailblazer and icon of the gay community, it's just wrong to do a film about that and brush that aside. "Could" you do a film about the day Harvey Milk went to buy groceries and chatted to his friends? Sure. Would it be bizarre to barely focus on the fact he was a gay trailblazer? Absolutely. Do you see what I mean?
Rubbish! If you edited out all the gayness of "Behind the Candelabra" they'd be barely anything left. That film was wall-to-wall gay. As it should be