I was in grad school right after the research was published. It did set off a firestorm. I remember the gay activist angry response and their dismay when they found out one of the lead researchers was gay and denounced their activism. The suppression efforts failed and a new avenue of research took off.
A biological disorder cannot be tolerated as the origin of sexuality deviation from the norm, after all. What if a treatment might be developed?
Yep - that is the fear. A treatment means that homosexuality would be reclassified as a disease or a disorder. Treatment would mean that homosexuals would be relegated to less political status than diabetes patients.
Ever since the research was first published, I've maintained that this is the tack conservatives should take w/r/t the "gay" problem. Vilifying them for religious reasons is counterproductive.
The most interesting thing is how the "Gay" "Community" - like all leftist enclaves - cares nothing for the scientific facts of the matter; any and all facts and conclusions must conform to the orthodoxy and objectives of whatever vapid socialist group is involved at the moment.
Horowitz documents how the "Gay" "Community" intimidated the government of San Fagdisco into refusing to close the bathhouses during the early stages of the AIDS epidemic, and went to great lengths to ensure that AIDS was always characterized as a disease affecting the entire population and not just homosexuals - both of which tactics helped delay any epidemiologically effective countermeasures, and thereby ensured the establishment of a permanent reservoir of the virus. In other words, protecting "Gayness" as a political status was even more important than preventing "Gay" men from dying of AIDS!!
Research to determine whether homosexuality is biologically determined should be pursued without regard to whether or not the resulting conclusions are "politically correct" or palatable to the "Gay" community. And if it is determined that "Gays" are simply biologically defective, it will be no more than they deserve, for their willingness to subjugate scientific objectivity to their political and social objectives.