For a short period in the 90s and early 2000s, yes, not so much anymore. The alignment of the religious right and the Republican party pushed the Republican agenda to be further and further anti-gay (saying anti-gay because 'lgbt' wasn't really a mainstream term then esp. among Republicans). Up into the 90s there were still "Rockefeller Republicans," from the North East and West Coast, who would have been more representative of social norms from those areas... Not progressive on LGBTQ+ issues like someone would be today, but not as conservative relative to that time period. What's so weird today is that Trump is the least religious president in ~100 years, but he's such a lying scumbag that he still plays up to that religious right and they love him for it.
Weird little factoid in history is that Log Cabin Republicans successfully sued to overturn Don't Ask Don't Tell in federal court in 2010 and won, outlawing Don't Ask Don't Tell, but the ruling was vacated by a higher circuit court because in the time the trial took, the Obama Administration officially ended the policy so the case was considered moot. But, now today with the Trump administration exploring similar policies with regard to transgender people in the military, there isn't a legal precedent to over turn that. If the precedent from that trial had been upheld, then that ruling could overturn Trump's transgender ban.
