If they want to be come clergy there are now plenty of places that will take them where they don’t have to hide anything at all, in fact they will be celebrated and put into positions of leadership openly with their partner, as well as being married.
As far as if the Church is plagued with more homosexuals now or 1978, I reckon time will tell. You have your observations, I have mine and they differ. The majority of older priests seem fruitier and are more liberal than younger priest that I have observed.
Freegards
1. I don't at all discount the motives and actions of the devil. His favorite target is the Catholic Church. Thus, he directs the most ammunition at the Church.
2. Perhaps, in part, due to No.1, a lot of homosexuals want to be priests in the “real deal.”
3. Many homosexuals are born into Catholicism, and feel that their identity as Catholics is their birthright. If they're going to be clergy, it will be as CATHOLIC clergy. This occurs with homosexual Catholic laity, too.
In many ways, life in the Church would be much easier if the homosexuals all decamped for parts elsewhere, and left us in our heterosexual “misery.” Some do depart. Many become irreligious. But many stay and try to shoehorn themselves into the life of the Church even while maintaining that in some way, their “activities” are acceptable, and they often demand quite militantly the acceptance and approval of others.
My sense is the percentage of homosexuals hasn't changed much. What has changed is that the younger homosexuals are generally more orthodox than the more openly liberal older priests. But the old liberals are often less hypocritical.