Unfair treatment was mostly the fact that they could not get married in a legally recognized way, and it was legal to refuse service to them in many places. Mind you, organizations providing custom services like wedding cakes must always have the right to refuse any request should they morally object to what's being requested. You cannot force an artist to draw porn, or force a sculptor to make a statue in honor of Marx, or force a baker to bake a gay wedding cake. That said, refusing service to someone not on the basis of what they are asking for, but on the basis of who's asking, is wrong.

There were plenty of spaces where gays could be gays, the Castro in San Francisco comes to mind, but there were also many places where their existence alone got them into trouble. I don't condone sexual promiscuity, I think its a great way to ruin one's life, but I won't stop anyone from engaging. The ability to make terrible choices is part of freedom.

Unfair treatment was mostly the fact that they could not get married in a legally recognized way, and it was legal to refuse service to them in many places. Mind you, organizations providing custom services like wedding cakes must always have the right to refuse any request should they morally object to what's being requested. You cannot force an artist to draw porn, or force a sculptor to make a statue in honor of Marx, or force a baker to bake a gay wedding cake. That said, refusing service to someone not on the basis of what they are asking for, but on the basis of who's asking, is wrong.