The only place in the USA or its federal institutions where homosexuality, aka sodomy, is still illegal is the US Military.
But, all over the USA we have vice cops following individual men who go in public restrooms in order to entrap them for being homosexuals.
I had two undercover Tulsa vice cops attempt to do that with me a few years ago. I was at the Tulsa River Parks near an overlook by a bridge over the Arkansas River and visiting with an openly gay friend. We had been sitting on the block wall above the overlook and was facing the drive into the parking lot.
I told my friend that I had to go pee and I would be right back. The public restroom building was behind the closed consession stand there. When I went around the building, standing near the door to the women's side was a man around 30 who was wearing regular eyeglasses. There was a utility room between the restrooms and I went into the men's side.
The room was set up so that along one wall was two lavatories, two urinals and then two toilet stalls with 3 1/3 foot high partitions. I went to the 1st urinal which had a little divider next to it.
A few moments later, a man whom I had never seen before came and stood at the other urinal. He acted like he wanted to see what I was doing. And, a very short time after that, the man whom I had seen outside came in and stood as though he might urinate at the last stall. When I am in a public restroom, I always pay attention to what is going on without trying to look obvious. The guy with the glasses appeared to be masturbating.
I actually was not even interested in them in the first place and I did my business and left as soon as I was finished and went back out to be with my friend. (I have his name written on an old calendar in the store room.)
Since it was getting hot in the sun, he and I decided to move down the way to the picnic tables by the parking lot. We were sitting on a table and the guy with the glasses and a man about 70 years old came down the paved path and stood at an empty parking space.
An older model red car pulled in and the driver got out. He was the other man whom I had seen in the toilet. Then the glasses dude sits in the driver's seat and when he reaches across to the glove box, it dawned on me, "These guys are cops!" The guy in the car was getting a citation book to write on so that he could arrest the older man and take him downtown. That they did.
A while later, my friend had left and a young man, probably not 21, drove up in the the empty space in front of the table where I was sitting and since I knew that he was definitely a restroom/T-room cruiser and gay, too, I felt that I had better warn him. But, before I could get to his car, he backed up so that his car would be parked on the opposite side of the lot and his license plate not that easy to read by a cop in a car.
So, I followed him as a backed up. And before I could say one word, the cop with the glasses quickly appeared and asked, "Did you tell him we were cops?" I told the cop after he said he went to church, "Did you know that Jesus said entrapment was wrong?" His response was, "Well, he said homosexuality was wrong, too." I told him that Jesus never mentioned it.
After that day, if I just happened to be within a mile of that restroom and the vice cops who had been told whom I was, I woud be approached and told to leave the park, because they did not want me to interfere with "police business."
I knew an ACLU lawyer who was also the co-president of the local chapter of PFLAG. I told Bill that they told me to leave the park and he said that since I have not been seen breaking any law by them, they had no legal right to tell me to leave.
I have yet to hear in a TV news report or even read in the newspaper where local cops have actually arrested two men having sex in a public place. Each report that I know about was always an individual man and one or more vice cops.
