'Gay Caveman'?

After I google searched the phrase 'gay caveman' news reports of a site located at suburban area of Czech Republic, dated back to between 2900 (2800 in some other reports)~2500BC came up. The archaeologists found a male body that was buried in a way that was usually for females of Corded Ware culture in the Copper Age. During this period of time, men were traditionally buried lying on their right side with their heads pointing towards the west, and women on their left sides with their heads pointing towards the east. In terms of grave goods, male burials often have weapons, hammer along with food and drinks; and female graves usually have jewelry, jugs, as well as egg-shaped pots near their feet.

Some archaeologists believe that this might be one of the earliest graves for "homosexual", "transexual", or "third gender" people. A detailed report from Telegraph: click to see.

As soon as the name 'gay caveman' was proposed, critiques flooded in: 'gay' is a oversimplified definition and it was not a caveman we are looking at, it is "pre-Bronze Age farmers" we are talking about. (Pappas, Science on MSNBC.com)

The skeleton of a Stone-Age man, dating back to about 2,500 to 2,800 B.C., found on the outskirts of Prague. He was buried on his left with his head facing west — a traditionally female position. (Science on MSNBC.com website)

I think people cannot any assumptions out of the actual social and cultural context. Determining this individual's sexual orientation based on solely the burial norms at the same period of time can hardly provide us any accurate information. According to Wikipedia, the word 'gay' is used as an adjective to describe people, especially male, and the cultures and social pratices associated with homosexuality in modern English. This person could be a deviant of that society, and there is not enough evidence indicating his social and economic status. This person could be a twin-sprited person and considered to have super power, but at the same time had "normal" sexual orientation. He could be raised as a girl due to any religious or personal reason. In acient China, some physically weak boys would be raised as girls. The parents dress them like girls (i.e. ear piercing) so that they would have bigger chance to survive the illness. These are all wild guesses without cultural evidence. The point is we cannot separate this person's sexual orientation from the larger social context.