Signs Haruki Murakami is homophobic in his novels

I've read a few of Murakami's books (Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Wood, the Wind-up Bird Chronicles) and a handful of his short stories (After Dark collection, his pieces that appeared in the New Yorker etc etc) and am now working through 1Q84. He's written plenty of queer characters and by and large his attitude has seemed largely relaxed if at times a bit fetishistic towards gay women. 

Which is why I was surprised to find a very casual example of homophobia in 1Q84. Towards the end of chapter 19, Aomame is listing examples of "deformed episodes" of humanity and includes Tamaru, describing him as a "powerfully built gay bodyguard", implying his being muscular and physically competent while gay is oxymoronic and tragic. 

Now, I recognize that this is leaning towards the classic fallacy of conflating the feelings and opinions of a writer's character with those of the writer, but here it appeared so casual and is in such stark contrast to previous examples of Aomame's attitude towards homosexuality (she experiments with her female childhood friend and engages in gay sex acts with Ayumi without apparent disgust barring some prudish shock at cunnilingus), that it comes across as a sort of freudian slip on the part of Murakami. A sort of unintentional reflection of his actual viewpoint. 

There are other examples in Murakami's work where his characters have used physical features to infer that another character is gay (slender fingers signaling a man might be queer), but I'm wondering if someone who is more familiar with his work might have a better log of such instances/more educated opinion on this subject. 

 Has anyone got the feeling that Murakami might not actually be as open to homosexuality as some of his characters make it seem? Also, what's up with the casual treatment of pedophilia in his work? I know that the age of consent in Japan was 13 until 2023, but that doesn't change the age gap issue, come on; two out of the four books I've read so far have had gruesome pedophilic to casual pedophilic aspects. Kafka on the shore might have had some too I can't fully remember. What do yall think?