Thirty years ago George Bush Senior was president, Reagan has recently left office, and the United States government was handling HIV poorly and intentionally so.
Sodomy laws were still on the books - can you keep a clearance while openly breaking the law every time you and your partner sleep together?
I don't know, that's why I asked since the original commenter seems to know, but his original comment doesn't really answer it as it basically says "they used to deny clearances to secretly gay people, and today they grant them to openly gay people".
Sodomy laws were still on the books - can you keep a clearance while openly breaking the law every time you and your partner sleep together?