It does seem to me there are a lot of gay men among Mormons. But I think it may be that when there are Mormon gay men it generates a "story" given Mormonism's inherent tranditional conservatism and homophobia. The Pulitzer Prize winning play "Angels in America" even had as a major character a brilliant young gay Mormon lawyer clerking for some federal Court of Appeals with an insufferable homophobic father.
As far as environmental factors are concerned, one factor leading to a gay orientation that makes some sense to me is a difficult or distant relationship with one's father (I'm way out of my league here; just going on intuition and hearsay). If this has any merit, then I can see how Mormonism's culture might give rise to such issues or environmental factors.
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