I downloaded a video(a recent production with carlos acosta) and intended to watch it, basically for the part that played the sabre dance.
I stopped after the first few minutes. It literally looks like a gay parade; here u have a roman general(Crassus?)
with his leather lappets shortened to show his bare ass, dancing triumphantly on his toes.
BTW, Nijinsky was a male whore out of necessity for employment,financial survival and connection.
He likely wasn't a homo out of preferred orientation. Consider that he did marry a woman
