Lazy people take shortcuts and body building/strength training are no exceptions. IMO, steroids can be a shortcut, or not, depends on what the person is trying to achieve. I don't take and never have taken steroids, but I know some who do and they take them with full knowledge of what these steroids do and long term effects. Others don't know what the hell they're doing and just want to get big.
Myself, I can't put steroid users into the same category as people using something like synthol. Those users are the ones really suffering from this mental illness bigorexia. They are no different than the people getting cosmetic surgeries to look like some animal.
Far as the gay thing goes, I don't see any correlation at all.