Would they? Or were they, like prostitution, simply ignored and assumed to be "for the best"?
Oscar Wilde certainly had an alternative lifestyle, and his "boyfriend", Lord Alfred Douglas, wasn't the nicest person. All of Whitechapel, New York's Five Points, San Francisco's Tenderloin...they were alternate lifestyles. So were the Shaker Communities, Amana, and other such places. Even the Wobblies, the WCTU and the suffrage movement were alternative lifestyles.