Was my homosexuality latent? As in "Latent Homosexuality?"

I'm just curious about this, it took years for my sexuality to develop, and it seemed to start towards the end of my years in high school. Prior to that, I never really thought about being gay or worried about being gay or whatever. Now, this is the definition of latent according to Google:

...and if sexuality is biological, which I think more than most of the members on here agree it is, we could also be speaking of latent homosexuality in the biological sense, so here's the biological definition of "latent":

I've never really sat down and examined this until this morning. I know I spent years fighting my sexuality, but it seems these days more and more kids are coming out as gay earlier and earlier, I'm talking as young as six (which is beyond me, but I don't want to get into a subject completely outside my comprehension) or ten. Anyway, my sexuality seemed to begin to manifest itself around the time I was eighteen. I'd say it was hardwired into me by the time I was nineteen. And as you all know I fought it for ten years until the age of 28 when I finally gave in and had sex with another man.

But my question is, was my sexuality latent? Is latent homosexuality even still considered to be a thing? Was it ever a thing taken seriously within the gay community? If yes, tell me about it, if no, tell me why. You hear the term 'latent homosexual' thrown around in pop culture without explanation, whether as part of something a character is stating or as part of a joke, but I never knew what it meant until I examined the two words separately, this morning.

 

See, I don't, haven't ever and won't ever buy into the 'born that way,' thing. Some people are, but I don't think all LGBTQ people are 'born that way,' I think there is a percentage where it develops through some other means. Now that it's more commonplace, I think a lot of non-gay people are identifying as LGBTQ because it's the cool thing to do, because it's rebellious, etcetera.

As for the latent thing, It was inactive. Or rather I was inactive as far as not going through with acting upon my homosexual desires. I fought it for ten years, until I finally broke and engaged in homosexual intercourse. Now, the desires are still there but I no longer really feel the need to engage in them. I'm not sure if that makes me bisexual or whatever you want to call it, but I no longer feel any sexual drive to go out and have sex other than masturbation. But for ten years of fighting it and two hours of homosexual intercourse I feel like all I did was give myself something I needed once and never again.

But more in your languages of what I'm asking is if I wasn't identifying as such prior to having homosexual desire did my sexuality exist? If so, why? I honestly don't think it did. I believe my sexuality was formed through a series of abusive, non-sexual, highly manipulative incidents as well as some other means that you'd probably call me crazy for. But why did it develop so suddenly when I was in high school? Like it wasn't there one moment then the next moment it was?

 

I still don't buy into the idea that I've always been this way. According to my therapist I might have some sort of "ego dystonic sexual identity disorder," here's a link to that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego-dystonic_sexual_orientation I'd say that's pretty accurate. I hate my orientation, or rather, the fact that I succumbed to my orientation would like a do-over on that, but we all know there are no do-overs.