[ansel12]

First, in most states homosexuality was not illegal.

Man you are full of it, homosexuality was even illegal at the federal level in the military, George Washington himself sentenced a man for homosexuality.

[Norseman]

I stand corrected, I guess. How many states in prosecuted homosexuals in the 20th Century successfully, and how often?

I’m under the impression such prosecutions were few and far between, but that’s based only on decades of reading the news during which time only Texas stood out as a place where prosecutions were attempted. Ironically, Houston in the sixties was a noted destination for gays nationwide, so even there the prosecutors must have been out to lunch most of the time.