Earlier quoted context omitted.
Homosexuality was treated similarly negatively in much of the world and much of human history, but US legislators have managed to move away from it being illegal.
Not true in the slightest. Ancient Greece and Rome all the way up untill the Holy Roman Empire had no problems with homosexuality especially when it was citizens against members of the lower classes. Homosexuality was quite common and accepted in Europe until the widespread adoption of Christianity.
What you are talking about was pederasty, not homosexuality.