Of course. It's only been technically legal in every U.S. state since 2003, but that never stopped LGBT people before that time from being intimate freely without worrying about getting caught. By that time, most of the sodomy laws in the U.S. states were vestigial and were only used in rare circumstances when law enforcement caught someone in the act. If you've never read them, the
facts behind Lawrence v. Texas are actually rather colorful.