And men-who-had-sex-with-men decided that they were an out-group - they were gay - and they deserved rights too. In the tumult of the 1960s, various out-groups - blacks, Chicanos, Native Americans - begun organizing themselves and demanding to be respected and given their due. People who did it lived in secrecy, under the constant threat of blackmail for their actions. Actually, “disapproved of” isn’t really the right word - it was immoral, illegal, disgusting. Until recently, men having sex with men was disapproved of in American culture.
