[raganwald]

I'm with you on this. Not only am I confused about the Hacker News component of this story, I'm confused about the "news" component of this story. If he was, say, a politician married to a woman who had voted against every law recognizing homosexuals as equal members of society, this would be news albeit not hacker news.

As it is, it simply isn't newsworthy. It might be titillating or perhaps surprising to people who bothered to hang the wrong label around his neck. That's about it.