'Recruiting' = 'Grooming'

"I wonder to what extent it was the belief that homosexuals were interested particularly in younger men, as opposed to those of their similar age. Are they oblivious to the portrayal? Have they made a silent assumption?"

Didn't you know? Homosexuality was unnatural. Not an Orientation but a Paraphilia. An "inversion" of normative Heterosexuality.

As such, Gays aren't born, they're created when older men "recruit" younger men and boys. All Gays must be predators, preying on those who would be Hetero, but for the seductions by Gays.

Of course there's an equivalence between Gays and BLers. Why else do you think that the Gay-teleios threw the BLers under the bus to gain acceptance?

And yes, the myth that is accepted by the "open-minded" who oppose us, is that "Greek Love" never had a youth-loving component. And that those bigots who rejected Homosexuals wrongly were completely unlike the tolerant who reject Pedophilia rightly.

They need to forget their own propaganda in order to believe that they aren't using the same bigoted rhetoric against the current pariahs now that its no longer socially acceptable to hate Women, Ethnic minorities, and other Orientations.

Dante