Lover of Murdered Journalist: I'm Not Gay; Multilated Victim to Rid Homosexual Demons

It will be instructive to see what further information comes out with respect to the brutal murder of Carlos Castro, a Portuguese journalist and gay rights activist, by his model boy friend who is claiming to police that he's not gay. As is his mother. Even more bizarre is the statement by the apparent murderer to police that he had committed the murder and mutilation to rid the victim of the "demon" of homosexuality. Be it the outcome of religious brainwashing, self-loathing or just an excuse made by a violent gigolo, the story is truly bizarre. Towleroad, The Advocate and New York Daily News all have coverage. Here are highlights from the Daily News:
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A male model confessed Sunday to killing a gay journalist in a Times Square hotel - and gave cops a twisted explanation of why he sexually mutilated his victim, sources said. Renato Seabra, 20, told cops he used a corkscrew to sever 65-year-old Carlos Castro's genitals as a way to cure the older man of his homosexuality, the police sources said.
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Seabra and Castro came to New York from their native Portugal and by all accounts were a couple - but Seabra appears unable to admit that, police sources said. "He said he did it to get rid of [Castro's] homosexual demons," one of the police sources said.

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Police believe the two men had dated for several months, even though Seabra's family insisted the tanned hunk is straight. "My son was not Carlos Castro's lover," Seabra's mother, Odília Pereirinha, told a Portuguese TV station. "From the beginning, he never hid his sexuality, which is heterosexual."
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Seabra's claim to fame was as a pretty boy contestant on a top model reality show.
The duo were staying at the InterContinental Hotel since Dec. 29 and hit the town together often, dining and drinking at fancy restaurants, friends said. Whatever the nature of their relationship, this much is certain, cops say: Seabra brutalized his victim and left him to die in a pool of blood. Detectives briefly questioned Seabra on Sunday at the Bellevue Hospital psychiatric ward, where he is in police custody, the sources said.