I fell for them too in the 70s and 80s. Before AIDs, gay men really seemed to like women and they would escort us to theater, ballet and foreign movies when straight men were sitting in sports bars. Of course, we didn’t realize that they were insulting us once they dropped us off home and they were off to the bathhouses.
The great Quentin Crisp - the most intelligent and profound homosexual I have ever had the pleasure to meet - spoke about this in his book The Naked Civil Servant.
Correct. The fag hag syndrome prevails even today among ladies with poor self esteem.