Citing super extreme examples isn’t exactly dispelling the notion that they were left alone for the most part. Society at large in the US hasn’t ever really harbored the hatred for gay people that we are led to believe. Mostly religious zealots and/or latent homos furious at their own attraction to men have done the vast majority of the heinous stuff talked about here and elsewhere. There have generally always been places in the US where gay communities were accepted and thrived.
The most notable gay community in the US is the Castro District in San Francisco. The openly gay SF city Supervisor representing that area was shot at point blank range, as noted upthread.
The Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, Stonewall revolution,[3] or simply Stonewall, were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Although the demonstrations were not the first time American homosexuals fought back against government-sponsored persecution of sexual minorities, the Stonewall riots marked a new beginning for the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.
"Except for Illinois, which decriminalized sodomy in 1961, homosexual acts, even between consenting adults acting in private homes, were a criminal offense in every U.S. state at the time the Stonewall riots occurred: "An adult convicted of the crime of having sex with another consenting adult in the privacy of his or her home could get anywhere from a light fine to five, ten, or twenty years—or even life—in prison. In 1971, twenty states had 'sex psychopath' laws that permitted the detaining of homosexuals for that reason alone. In Pennsylvania and California sex offenders could be committed to a psychiatric institution for life, and [in] seven states they could be castrated." (Carter, p. 15) Castration, emetics, hypnosis, electroshock therapy and lobotomies were used by psychiatrists to attempt to cure homosexuals through the 1950s and 1960s.(Katz, pp. 181–197.)(Adam, p. 60.)"
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