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All children are gay-ish at one point. It's the latency period where strong bonds are formed with your own gender and the other gender has 'cooties'. It's an important and necessary stage of human development. The sex drive hasn't yet formed pre-puberty, so that's why latency is gay-ish.
That period never seems to end in some Arab communities.
But beside that point, I do wonder if there is credence that homosexuality is a developmental delay. When I was working on my undergrad, there were psychoanalytic minded professors who were quite certain that homosexuality was simply arrested sexual development. And to be honest, I do feel that way sometimes. I identify much easier with men and I'm not particularly fond of women. It makes me wonder if I never grew out of the "girls have cooties" stage. Weirder still is I had girlfriends when I was in elementary school but my desire to hang around girls sharply declined around the time I entered puberty. In fact, I would like to see studies on gay men and women's attitudes towards the opposite sex to see if there is a correlation.
Freud seemed to feel that homosexuality had to be examined on a case by case basis because some individuals demonstrated higher biological predispositions than others. I like that he viewed humans as innately bisexual and that we develop into heterosexuals and homosexuals based on a mixture of socialization and biological influences. But if Freud could see homosexuality as just a normal variation of sexual function, then I certainly can't complain.