[tomkat]

I continue - unabashedly - to use the terms faggot, homo, and queer.

A term I never use is 'gay' because:

a) the word means 'happy', which is what most of the sodomites most certainly are not and,
b) I refuse to participate in the ongoing debasement of the English language.

[Rurudyne]

poofter is a better term.

Robin Williams suggested “women in comfortable shoes” for lesbians.

[higgmeister]

b) I refuse to participate in the ongoing debasement of the English language.

This movie was released 81 years ago:

Aunt Elizabeth: Well who are you?

David Huxley: I don't know. I'm not quite myself today.

Aunt Elizabeth: Well, you look perfectly idiotic in those clothes.

David Huxley: These aren't my clothes.

Aunt Elizabeth: Well, where are your clothes?

David Huxley: I've lost my clothes!

Aunt Elizabeth: But why are you wearing 'these' clothes?

David Huxley: Because I just went gay all of a sudden!

Aunt Elizabeth: Now see here young man, stop this nonsense.  What are you doing?

David Huxley: [exasperated and wearing Susan's negligee] I'm standing in the middle of 42nd Street waiting for a bus!

"Bringing Up Baby" quotes.

Apparently the word has been evolving since the 13th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay#History