I'm glad for him to (finally) be able to talk openly about it.
That being said...I must say, and this is probably totally OT, that I'm really surprised to see what fuss "coming out" makes since it really makes no difference. Well at least that's how I look at it. But I imagine that for someone who's been struggling with his/hers sexuality cannot always be easy. I've seen what that sort of struggle can do people as one of my friends went through little hell because of it. Really sad.