Well put
I remember when the phrase “rolling queers” was still a common and somewhat publicly acceptable thing that you’d commonly hear (not condoning it) and knowing what my dad and uncles attitudes were about homosexuality and such as WW2 veterans I don’t but that line of bs for a minute.
Sure there was likely some acts quietly and secretly but someone claiming anything like gender fluid would almost certainly been mocked incessantly or killed
My grandfather served in the coast guard with Cesar Romero (gay, but not public about it at the time). The latter did not do anything queer while on the Bayfield and that sort of thing would have been known on a ship. Whatever gay sex took place had to be clandestine and while on liberty.