If you hear about police "hasseling" homosexuals is is almost always related to homosexuals seeking sex in public restrooms or vandalizing rest rooms in some way to facilitate sex.
It is their behavior in public rest rooms not their skin color that is the problem.
Like poor old Walter Jenkins. By and large, gays used to be treated pretty much the same way as sex offenders. I knoiw of one kid at my old high school who was caught making out with a fellow football player. It costs him scholarships etc. but mostly it was kept quiet like a girl getting an abortion.
The big difference is that the psychpotherapy crowed has managed to turn around public opinion, so that something like sexual perversion has been narrowed to a few categories such as pedophilia.