“For some reason, the gay activists gained tremendous . . .”
I saw what you did there.
The Clinton administration was marked by an invasion of Sexual Revolutionists . This would include people like Bill Clinton. Back in the 18th Century the word gay took on the meaning of libertine, and so Bill Clinton is in that sense as gay as any lesbian or homosexual. For such a person, a wife is no more than a partner in immorality.