PS. Are you serious about the Church of England not having a gay subculture? If you are, I can only assume that you have spent little, if any, time in the milieu of the High Church Anglo-Catholic wing of the Church. It is widely accepted that this form of Anglicanism has always, ever since its inception in the nineteenth century, attracted a large number of gay men.
At the Anglo-Catholic theological college St Stephen’s House, Oxford, it was until relatively recently the norm for the ordinands, and even staff, to adopt female names. Although this is apparently no longer the practice there, female names and pronouns are still used by some gay Anglo-Catholics.
I have personally known quite a significant number of gay Anglo-Catholic clergy, some celibate, some with long-term partners, others with more casual partners. The Diocese of Southwark in general, and its cathedral in particular, have long had a very substantial gay membership. The cathedral has for decades had openly gay clergy on the staff, probably in roughly equal proportions with heterosexuals (to say nothing of lay staff, such as musicians and vergers). You will find large numbers of gay men at smart central London parishes such as All Saints Margaret Street, St Mary’s Bourne Street, and St Magnus the Martyr, as well as at Pusey House, Oxford, and gays and lesbians at more liberal Anglo-Catholic parishes such as St James’s Piccadilly and St Martin-in-the-Fields. Brighton, too, has always had a large community of gay Anglo-Catholics.
I was once advised to have nothing to do with the Guild of Servants of the Sanctuary because of the likelihood that I would be approached by predatory older gay men—and I was given this advice by an older gay man who lived with a long-term partner and took a very dim view of this sort of activity (in fact, his description of the proclivities of the Servants of the Sanctuary was rather more colourful than my paraphrase).
There are a number of Anglican (or largely Anglican) organisations that openly and actively advocate for LGBT+ people in the Church, e.g. OneBodyOneFaith, Inclusive Church, and Affirming Catholicism.
Perhaps you are a conservative evangelical or solidly middle-of-the-road, but if you were to spend any time at all in the Anglo-Catholic milieu you would soon discover what I am talking about.
