Consider that when homosexuality was universally condemned and mostly criminalized:
- We reached the moon in record time ahead of the Russians.
- We contributed to a rapid vaccine against polio.
- We invented the microchip.
- We were among the safest and freest nations on earth.
We can’t reach the moon today. Extremely doubtful we reached it in 1969. 😏
I’ll give you the microchip, but IMO the rest of your points are open to question.