I'm enjoying your article quite a lot, thank you. But as somebody who has extensively studied the history of queer rights, I feel I must point out that the 1940s represented a nadir in the struggle. In the 1920s and early 30s, a small movement had formed, it's true. It was centered in Weimar Germany with manifestations elsewhere in Europe, but was hardly seen at all in the English-speaking world.

This became quite obvious after World War II, when the UK and US governments sent queer people to German prisons after "liberating" them from Nazi death camps. Obviously, prison is better than being worked to death or gassed to death, but society did not object (even a little bit) to treating gay and trans people as felons.

Given all that, it's hard for me to support the notion that that the "homosexual" translation in the Bible was a reaction to societal pressure for queer liberation. If any such significant pressure existed in the 1940s, I've seen no evidence for it.