I think I can safely say no "gay people" my age were ever "bullied" because in my time we had never heard of "gay people." We didn't even  know the details of the authentic marital act until darn near high school. 

The kids who really get bullied, now as then, are fat kids, slow kids, smelly kids, kids whose parents dress them funny and kids who aren't good at sports.

So where is the special study and pastoral letter and priggish finger-shaking about welcoming and affirming and valuing the fat, the slow, the smelly and the unathletic? Why the preoccupation with the same-sex-attracted? After all, one can always choose to keep one's sexual attractions to oneself; corpulence and body odor, not so much. Why are the British Catholic bishops so zealous to insist on the importance of welcoming and affirming and nodding and winking at same-sex attractions? Hmm, almost as if ... oops, my 500 characters are up.