Fucking hell, grooming started in earnest in 2015, as Queer Kids Stuff, Drag Queen Story Hour, and other programs got their start in that very year. It wasn't even 5-8 years after gay marriage was legitimized by legal fiat, it was IMMEDIATELY. Sure, some people pointed it out, but it didn't receive mainstream attention until 2021-2022.
If anything, the most schitzo of conservative and fundamentalist predictions on where the normalization of gay marriage would lead actually UNDERESTIMATED how quickly it would take for them to come to pass.
The only possible way for practicing gays to exist peacefully in society was for them to stop while they were still ahead, when they could cohabitate in peace without the police barging in. When it was an abnormal lifestyle to be kept behind closed doors, but not worth harassing them over. Even in the gay rights manual
After the Ball, the authors admitted that gays in the 90s were highly privileged, the only thing they lacked was affirmation by society at large.
As I've said before, the reason why gays were hated throughout most of human history was not simply because homosexuality is disgusting and abnormal. But because the people involved can't seem to grasp the fact that it's disgusting and abnormal. The vast majority of the human race is hardwired to find it repulsive and immoral, just as gays claim to be hardwired to find it sexy.
Asking for mere tolerance is already asking a lot, but gay marriage.... that was only a concession we gave them in the hopes they'd shut up. Which they didn't.
But I digress.