Despite the efforts of LGBT activists to separate themselves from MAPs, we have always been and continue to be part of the queer community whether they like it or not. Decades of research have showed and continue to show that MAPs are much more likely to be queer.

As David Rigel says in his book “We were NOT abused!”, we only started being excluded from the gay movement in the late 70s due to political and monetary incentives:

After the scapegoat of adult male homosexuality was exculpated by the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association, a subset of the “gay” community – which, for political expediency, was soon excommunicated by newly empowered gay activists – became the new scapegoat in a targeted vendetta which began to emerge in the late 1970s. “Victimology,” and more specifically sexual victimology as it applies to boys, developed not from science, but from the ideologies of a few opportunistic individuals.

Later in chapter 7 he adds:

There are books and web sites devoted to subjects such as “Gay Men … who Enriched the World” (Cowan, 1966) and “Gay American History” (Katz, 1976). But in actuality, the general historical record has relatively little to say on the subject of adult male homosexuality, and the vast majority of proposed examples turn out to have been relationships between a prepubescent or adolescent boy and an adult male, not two adult males. Conversely, however, history does abound in sexually expressed relationships between adolescent and younger boys with older males; there are numerous well documented examples from classical Greece (Percy, 1996) through Wilfred Owen (Hibberd, 1986), and right up to modern times (Davidson, 1988), just to mention a few.