“ This clause allowed two consenting adults, 21 years of age or older, to engage in gay sex provided they confined it to a private space.”

Please, I beg of you to attempt to forgive my American ignorance. I’ve been supporting LGBTQ rights since long before the term existed. Still I have a question about the above, and you can no doubt answer it more quickly (and realistically) than my research likely could;

How is the above law about “gay” sex different from a (presumably) comparable law about hetero sex in public? I’m not being obtuse, I just wish for greater context. I understand the issue isn’t so much the public space as the freedom of the participants, but I can’t help but be curious about the mindset of those drafting this law. Just curious if this law pertaining to non-gay sex is still unfairly limiting the actions of one group only. I have to wonder, in consider the “value” of this new coin, if two heteros would have been free from arrest for engaging in sex “in a car parked in an abandoned parking lot”. (Clearly, enforcement was not equal, regardless of the wording of any specific law, and I do see that as the larger issue. I will be watching the film documenting the bathhouse raids, and much appreciate both the information and the link.)

Respectfully., thank you.