You're too young.
When I was growing up, that's when ETB told women to stay at home and not work. This was in the 80s. It caused a lot of consternation. Even til today, women with "real" careers in Mormondom feel looked down upon.
I can't ever recall a time or era where I felt the church was welcoming to its gay members. And that is manifest even until 2016 where the church, in its rhetoric, doesn't even acknowledge that gay people exist. They are just people struggling with same sex attraction. They are not gay. Because that is an identity, and God would never given someone that identity. Therefore they don't exist. They have a sinful nature, and that sinful nature is not from God.
There are examples of Mormon outreach to gays, mostly on the local level. And there have been news reports of those. But I think the overall thing that has happened is ostracization.
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