Confused about Taric's Lore

His neat and stylish appearance combined with his shiny bejeweled armor and weapons have rapidly made him a celebrity champion of the League of Legends. Valoran's media, for some reason, has taken great interest in his personal life. While open about his life as a champion and gracious in all things, Taric is tight-lipped about his life outside the League and prefers his privacy.

Taric is obviously gay. The player base knows he's gay and jokes about it constantly. He's a ton of stereotypes rolled into one character, like SNL's Ambiguously Gay Duo but even less ambiguous.

+ her harem of men wants wants

...are public about their romantic feelings and/or relationships. In other words, they don't keep their bedroom activities private, and they don't keep their real-life issues out of your gaming experience. I mean, Illaoi literally will not shut up about all the guys she's fucking. So none of that can really be the reason to keep Taric closeted since sexuality is already woven throughout the lore/game.

If everybody's happy to make jokes and laugh at all the gay innuendo surrounding Taric, why not just have him come out and be done with it? This isn't an SJW rant, I just sincerely do not understand the point of keeping Taric closeted with such a huge amount of innuendo. I see posts saying that a gay character is taboo, political, unnecessary, inappropriate, etc. (fill in the blank with any and every possible reason to keep it out of the game), but Taric is already a gay character in your game, and that won't change whether he's out of the closet or not. So what's the point of keeping him closeted?