Clearly you rely on propaganda sources. Virtually every anti-sodomy law was enforced in the Democrat governed South. Restrict same sex activity? As a life long Republican who became woke with Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan's Time for Choosing speech, I have never encountered any of this thought from a single Republican. We are pretty much live and let live, don't think you have the right to show my kindergarten kids how to put a condom on a cucumber, stop trying to force your gay agenda down our throats (pun intended), get you gender confusion out of our schools. There was a time when gender was a structure for language, he, she, it and sex was the equipment you were born with or an act. Democrats are the only ones I've seen you can't, you won't- like you can't go to a white school, you can't use a white water fountain, you won't get served a meal at this restaurant if you aren't white, you can't exercise your second amendment rights even if you are perfectly law abiding, you can't use a voucher system to get your kids out of incompetent public schools (because you are black and we refuse to let you off the Democrat Dependency Plantation with an education, you can't drive this car, you can't make decisions about your life better than a bureaucrat 3000 miles away from where you live, you can't keep your income in the form of tax cuts because only the government has a right to what you earn. Don't get me started, I might write a whole book on the party of NO!
Octavia, you clearly have a good heart but no grasp of reality, facts and truthful history. I lived the 60's, they sucked. Protestors burned a classroom building to the ground the day before the Kent State shooting, never hear that when you hear the words Kent State. My Dad was a coach who had to get meals for his black athletes out the back door of restaurants while the other coaches sat up front and dined with the white guys, my Dad got scholarships for any motivated athlete who wanted an education regardless of race, yet the Black Panthers threatened to fire bomb our house! I have met Patty Hearst. I know history having lived it.
Finally, why is everything about sex? I don't care how, or with whom or how often you have to have an orgasm, that's your business, how about you keep your mouth shut about it and stop trying to make me put a stamp of approval on everything you think is right.