Not exactly; while the media has a hand in it, it's gotten way out of hand from people who thinks it's a bizarre occurrence or something that be censored. I could grandstand an entire day listing the animals who have exhibited homosexual behavior; freaking dolphins, whales, lions and snakes do it... for different reasons... It's actually a viable mating strat, if your competition "releases", you can go get the female and not be bothered. Nearly everything in this world likes to fuck, and who they will fuck is on a spectrum, and that won't change as life depends on it. Now asexual i'd find more odd, but still, to each their own.
It's an example of the US media producing propaganda and a large percentage of the public believing it