***Maybe someone can educate us as to when that cultural takeover started.***
Only time I can think of is an old Cary Grant movie in which he has to wear a woman’s robe and says to a visiting woman who asks why he is wearing it.
He says “All of a sudden I have gone GAY!”
“Bringing Up Baby”.
I played that movie for my mother last weekend. We had a big laugh over that line.
I said to her: “ That wouldn’t be allowed today”.