True, that is not how all the sheep become lost on Brokemoral Mountain. Only most of them.
I don’t think it matters. Some people are gay. Whether they’re gay because of genetics or environment or martian ray-guns pointed at them in line at the supermarket check-out doesn’t matter.
Until quite recently, most small town communities had reltively few gay people in them. Maybe the guy who owned the flower store or funeral parlor. If a kid was gay, he quite he quite sensibly left the small town for the big city and nobody paid much attention beyond a stray morsel of gossip. Also, gay characters weren’t depicted in movies or television shows. It wasn’t an issue.
That’s changed to the point where many small town folks genuinely feel under attack.