>>56435050It's complicated. At a certain point there were crackdowns and obviously proto-trans people and lesbians (usually butch dykes) stood out more visibly than just a bunch of meek guys in cardigans. Gay men were essentially hidden by default and just published self-loathing suicidal gay novels under pseudonyms. It's not like today where gay man has a strong performative component to the identity in popular culture. Think more along the lines of Alan Turing. His mistake was that he was going to press charges when his ex boyfriend robbed him or something.
