It wasn’t homosexuality as we understand it today it was...something else.

"Uranian. Invert. Onanist. (These are words they make up; you will find them in medical texts.)"

Quoted from "The Mystery of the Young Gentleman", by Joanna Russ, who also wrote "Pornography By Women For Women, With Love" [link (http://www.totse.com/en/erotica/erotic_fiction_o_to_p/pornogra.html)], over 20 years ago...