In Jersey he would have had his ass kicked for being a fag
In talking with personal friends of mine, 10 years older than me, she admitted that around 1940, a neighbor tried to molest her and others when she was 4 years old. A man who loved to “read story book tales “ to children.
Her father, a Freemason, got some of his Mason friends to take this man for a ride and put him in the hospital. He soon left the area.
My Mother-in-law, once in a gabby mood, mentioned that in 1925, Dallas Tx, said a man tried to get them into his car. They had enough sense to run but he did make a grab for them.
So the perverts are amongst us even today.