Shakespeare and Bacon were gay

The great thing about the scientific spirit and the scientific method is that spirit and method fosters the search for information here to fore unknown to the scientist and average citizen - information that increases our knowledge thus bringing us closer to a point of truth for the betterment of people. With understanding, solutions become obvious.
Case in point: The official rumor held that Shakespeare was probably gay and because Shakespeare scholars still believe in the Shakespeare-Santa Clause I hadn't accepted anything they had to say on face value until my quest for understanding Francis Bacon finally led me to Sonnet 20. Please refer to Honest Sonnet 20.
The author of the sonnets --Shakespeare/Bacon-- reveals the kind of dramatic struggle true for anyone torn between duty to be straight and pleasure of being gay. Believing that Francis Bacon was straight I posted an piece about Francis Bacon's women. All things considered I don't think he pursued women except for social position. Excluding his mother and excluding the women who were satisfying to him or satisfied them the number of women who were the target of his affections was zero.
To paraphrase, the sonnet explains that women are part of the natural order but the poet questions the nature of his passions regarding is male and female desires. He recognizes his compassion but the emotions that shift like women's fashions are unknown to him. The poet claims to be a better judge of the object of his attention, apparently men, than women. He asserts that as a man he has better control of his appearance that women ( I am assuming he means his ability to conceal his sexual orientation) and knows how to appear beautiful to both genders. The poet finishes the sonnet with the observation about himself that I believe is common to people who are coming to grips with their homosexuality. He recognizes that he was built for loving women but allows that nature has furnished him a fondness for men. There is a tragedy here, of sorts, because in other sonnets he expresses a clear obligation or need to produce children that would carry on his work. He adds that by adding the love of men to his life's purpose nature has removed him from women's pleasure. Then, I think he recognizes that he can love only one gender.
To confirm my interpretation a Ben Johnson quote in my popularity contest a few weeks ago left me very puzzled since I thought Francis Bacon was heterosexual at that time. Specifically, Ben Johnson wrote to Francis Bacon about the good times they had had by saying, "and oh the men."-- A clue wouldn't you say?
So the question becomes, who were Bacon's men? Well, we can begin with Ben Johnson and proceed to name his Good Pens-- a group of authors with whom he collaborated to write most all of the Elizabethan literature.
According to the Peter Dawkins in the "Shakespeare Enigma" Francis Bacon's collaborators were George Peele, Robert Green, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Middleton, John Day, George Wilkins, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger. He had influences from Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Lyly, Thomas Lodge, Thomas Watson, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Kyd, Samuel Daniel, Francis Beaumont. There is more. He had association with Thomas Sackville, Gabriel Harvey, Edward Dyer,Fulke Grevlle, Mary Sidney, Nicolas Breton, Edward de Vere, Sir John Davies, Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker, Michael Drayton, George Chapman, Anthony Munday, Ben Johnson, John Davies of Hereford, John Ford, George Wither, and William Brown.
I am not suggesting that any one of these men, besides Ben Johnson, were gay and he could have had no more relations with them than he did with his women. Francis Bacon was in fact very gregarious and charming to both men and women but apparenly had the inclination to agree with Ben's, "Oh the men."