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your analogy is crude because it ignores an interaction between parents' race and children's race. Legitimately, I'd say that in so far as African american children report greater stress and identity issues when raised by whites, then yes. It's a bad idea to place blacks in white homes or whites in black homes when placement involves children already at risk. If you can prove beyond doubt that a child will grow up homosexual, and that they would probably experience less stress in a homosexual household than heterosexual household, then you've got a legitimate analogy. The goal should always be: given what we know, where do we place this child to absolutely maximize the stability of their environment.
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Your attempt to rebutt is crude because it avoids (intentionally?) the essential question--if some research (be it nebulous or substantial) argues that African-American foster children in foster homes headed by African-American foster parents experience greater levels of stress (or other pernicious effect) because of bigoted attitudes, policies, institutions and/or acts against the African-American parents, is it your contention that African-American children (or any child) should not be placed in households headed by African-American parents?
You can even alter the parameters to mitigate the factor of race--what if the child is of mixed ethnicity? where should the child be placed?--and the flaws in the logic of your argument are even more apparent.
The solution you suggest would further reduce and limit the already scarce number of caregivers, based on assertions rooted in much contested (and largely refuted) premises--namely that homosexual foster parents are less capable of providing a stable home/family environment for a child in need.
The reality is that there is a shortage of foster homes and foster parents of whatever persuasion (racial, sexual, political, religious) to provide homeless and parentless children a nurturing, caring, loving, stable environment. Given the circumstances, the state is often hard-pressed to provide ANY environment at all for these, let alone one that meets your definition of "stable".