I've said it before, but practically every gay person I've ever known has been pretty open about that they'd been raped/molested when they were children. Anecdotal, but seems too strange to be a coincidence.

And plenty of gay celebrities talk openly about "having sex" with "older men" when they were young.

It's amazing how captured the whole "gay" thing is. It's not like "born this way" versus "choice" versus "circumstance" makes a huge difference anyway. Plenty of terrible people are in part claimed to be "born this way." Some great people have absolutely terrible childhoods, but overcome it. So "born this way" isn't even an excuse. But the people pushing this alphabet stuff think they can force society to be more sympathetic if "that's just who gay people are." Even though it doesn't really matter much. I suppose they don't want people talking about all the people raping children...for some reason. "What an odd thing to say," as the Lotus Eaters like to say. Also, they want to stigmatize the idea of a gay "cure" or anything to that effect.

And, to be nuanced, to some extent I get it. It's basic self-preservation, in that sense it's fairly natural. Gays have been persecuted, at times viciously. Nazis did do a number on them, for example. The farther a group can get away from "well, perhaps they don't have to be that way," the safer they at least feel. I'd argue it might be counterproductive, though. If a group is innate and unchangeable, but keeps engaging in harmful behavior, that might make some extreme elements more interested in a final solution, not less. But I certainly get the instinct to try to hide behind "born this way." And it pushes the boundary; even if it might make extreme measures more likely, it takes a lot longer to get there. So "born this way" is at the very least a short term safety measure. It tries to force society to ignore the issue until it's too big to ignore...kicks the can down the road, basically.

I think it also makes them feel better about themselves. This is not a dig at gay people, for the record. But, if we are going with the "having homosexual sex at a young age messes up your sexuality," these people are often quite damaged. Some deal with it better than others, but there are plenty of people who hate themselves, or simply don't understand themselves. If they were just born that way, that makes it easier to accept, than that something was done to them to make them how they are. If they weren't born that way, though, I think it would be much healthier to face that. Imagine if we had therapists that actually helped people. That would be amazing.

If "teh ghey" is something that is done to someone, that seems like one of the biggest issues that should be addressed in that person's life. But instead we as a society are all on board the "affirmation" train. Which is one of the most retarded trains in existence, and seems counter to all good personal growth. But, hey, what do I know? I'm not an Expert™. Remember, Trust the Science.