If a gay person has not had sex with another person does that still make them a sodomist {not actually a word} in your book or are we just going for the most inflammatory wording possible?
There is nothing gay, happy, & carefree about sodomy.
It is not a sin to be temped in some way. The sin comes when a man lies with a man and inserts what does not belong into an orifice meant for elimination.
Also the term appears to assume that sodomy is the result of some unavoidable physiological condition (genetic) in a person.
Wording:
1) Gay is a rhetorical debater's device, an attempt to slap a positive word on an abominable practice. Nurses can testify the results in the posterior of those who receive this abominable abuse.
2) homophobe is a rhetorical debater's slur word to try to demonize the opposition by the false claim that it is an irrational fear to object to what is obviously an abominable scatological abusive practice.
3) homosexual is not the best term as it might include the preference for friendship with one's own gender, aside from lying with one's own sex.
4) Sodomist & sodomite are terms which have been used legally for various illegal sexual acts. But IMHO, they are the best terms as they refer to the men of Sodom who wanted to sodomize angels, thinking they were men in Genesis.