liberal activists in the 60s-80s, probably: well maybe if you all stopped being sodomites we would be taken more seriously by society
no literally, that happened
I have seen primary sources talking about how, at the time of Stonewall, the Mattachine Society was actively supporting sodomy laws for respectability points.
I think you might be mixing up groups here because the Mattachine Society actively campaigned against sodomy laws at that time ab"nd was mostly communist. It was reformist and against direct action but changing the sodomy laws was part of its agenda the whole time.
