I’ll hear old songs, like at Christmas time, that use “gay” as it used to be understood, and I get ticked off that the word has been appropriated and ruined. I say homosexual and lesbian, and whoever doesn’t like it can lump it.
Even the “Flintstones” theme song “...we’ll have a gay old time”
http://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/theflintstoneslyrics.html
Know what you mean.