>>>My mom was a teenager in the ‘40s, and she said gay guys made the best dates,
A British study made a similar observation:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1559749/Girly-men-are-perfect-partners-say-women.html
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“A British study...”
...seems to have left out the fact that women favor girly-boys when they are not ovulating, but favor manly men when they are physically capable of conceiving.
Birth control pills prevent ovulation, which would apparently prevent women from coming into their manly-men phase at all.