How things have changed.
Back in the early ‘50s, in the days of the homosexual oriented Mattachine Society, the members kept their identities secret. They spoke in code, if I recall correctly, they organized into local cells, so that all members didn’t even personally know some other members. It was an underground organization.
At that time, homosexuality was hidden in society.
Contrast with today, with homosexuality being very open, sometimes brazenly so. But we see traditional political conservatism being driven underground instead, as we see in this story from the liberal Bay Area.
One might add at the same time we had continuous prohibition of Sodomy from very early on, with the death penalty as punishment. In the mid eighteen hundreds the death penalty was done away with and it became a felony with prison time at hard labor for punishment until latter part of the 20th Century when the Supreme Court in a 2003 decision Lawrence v Texas struck down the same sex sodomy law and we have had a virtual free for all ever since