Gay, no, they just had their own section of pop culture or there was a "don't ask don't tell" aspect to it instead of being folded into the totality of it like now, so people were more accepting that a Boy George, Paul Lynde, Jim J. Bullock, or Freddy Mercury that were out or a Rob Halford or George Michael were closeted but obvious. Gays were sort of treated like "ok I know what they are, I just don't want to think about what they do" so in movies and tv there'd be a token gay guy that was more of a magical fairy creature where the sexual aspect wasn't really taken into consideration outside of jokes (barring a movie like Cruising). So you'd have the gay dude from Mannequin, but the relationships were never really shown at all unless in an R Rated drama or exploitation movie.
I didn't really notice that there was a push to really try to fold gay culture outside of its' own little niche box and into the mainstream until MTV were really pushing it sometime between '93-'95 (so they were trying to get the youth subculture to be more accepting).