No, what I'm talking about is the decriminalization of homosexuality. They would have been arrested and been harassed by the police for the rest of their lives. The Turkish bath orgies would have never happened reducing the r0 of hiv. There is a reason why the infection rate for homosexuals in SF and NY was more than double that for the rest of the country[0].
Good policy is often not ethical policy. Now if you think that millions dying for your ethics is a worth while trade that is a different discussion.