Maybe take or leave her as she was, not based on what homosexuals thought about her 50 years ago.
I was born in the late ‘80’s. I know who she was. I’m still very fond of her. It’s also common for kiddie stars of all generations to wind up on drugs. Being raised in an environment being told you’re not good enough or thin enough or pretty enough screws with a girl’s and/or young woman’s head, and I promise that she was introduced to drugs by her employers as a means of weight loss, mood stabilizer or energy booster depending on what she took.
It’s also not her fault that she wound up popular with the drag crowd - long after she was gone, too. She can’t be faulted for that.
That doesn’t take away from her talent or that she was lovely. I actually have a more difficult time watching let alone admiring modern stars because their personal lives and political leanings are so public.