Bad Modifiers

I found this story on a random blog, and of course, one thing struck me immediately. Why did they have to describe a murderer and his victims as homosexual? I never see "A Brooklyn man has confessed to killing and eating a fellow heterosexual," or "An Ohio man has confessed to killing and eating a fellow redhead." In this case, perhaps a more accurate sentence would have read, "A man has confessed to murdering and eating a fellow insane person who volunteered to be killed." I can't see why it's relevant that both men were gay. I hate the press.