It all really depends on where you live in america.
For instance, you don't want to be gay in some tiny fucking nebraskan bible town, or black.
Most people assume I'm a straight white Christian redneck, so effectively, I'm invisible.
Ok, I suppose I shouldn't turn this into a "Who is more oppressed?" contest.
Nah, discussion's good when it's discussion and not a pissing contest.
It's just that I've never had to fear for my life because the police might accuse me of a crime I didn't commit and beat me to a pulp. Or that I might get murdered and the killer wouldn't just get free, but be celebrated.
Homosexuality and pedophilia are both deviant sexual orientations. Getting more specific, they address two different things, but they are sexual orientations nonetheless, and the scientific consensus backs that up.
[citation needed]
Brian L. Cutler, Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law, SAGE, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4129-5189-0, p. 549, which Wikipedia cites when it says "Pedophilia has been described as a disorder of sexual preference, phenomenologically similar to a heterosexual or homosexual sexual orientation because it emerges before or during puberty, and because it is stable over time."
Might want to read that again, because it agrees with me and disagrees with you.
In short, the only similarity they really have is that they both emerge around puberty. One is a disorder of sexual preference. The other is sexual orientation. Two different things.
Legal semantics. They present similarly and the only difference is that homosexuality is legal (which is a recent development) and statutory rape of a minor isn't. You'll notice that homosexuality was similarly classified as a disorder of sexual preference in the 1970s, which should really hit the point home on how it's two different ways of classifying the same thing.
And homosexuality was removed from that list because it wasn't a disorder of sexual preference, and pedophilia wasn't because it is a disorder of sexual preference.
Who's the one arguing semantics again? Spoiler: It's you.
EDIT:
I should remind you that I asked for a citation that pedophilia is a sexual orientation and that science has been finding this for years. Instead, you provided me with a citation that clearly called it something separate from a sexual orientation. So, clearly, science
hasn't been finding this for years.