When I joined the Masons no-one asked whether I was then or ever had been homosexual or practised homosexuality. I infer that the official line is not bigoted. However many many of the masons I met until I ceased attending and became a country member were great ones for politically incorrect jokes of all kinds including anti-gay so I infer that the on the floor position is different.

As for churches and kings, the root of the present Ugandan hate-fest lies largely it would seem in the local beatification of a number of page-boys who refused the advances of a medieval king of Uganda - I forget his name, something the third...

So we can say that homosexuality was then known in Uganda and possibly most of Africa. It is widely said that it was a frequent practice in Egypt too.