gays were never an issue until the system made them an issue.
everyone knew freddie mercury was a screaming queer. did it change anything? no. the rest of the band were straight.
so many fags in the 80s and it was just a background thing
sure I can see why they didn't have gays in the military for the same reason the navy hundreds of years ago was rampant with faggotry and spreading disease. it's not sanitary and it reduces all kinds of battle readiness. gays live shorter lives, get sicker quicker, which is why Fauci found it so easy to fuck them over like he did