Don’t pretend you didn’t become obsessed with whatever cool new slang was flavour of the month when you were a child
I don’t remember getting any new slang as a kid.

Yeah, we just called people fags (sorry) or gay.

90s and early 00s were N O T LGBT friendly

Don’t forget how casual the r word was. Every comedy of the 90s and 2000s called somebody that.
What’s the r-word?
“retarded”
Oh. I know it’s not a nice word but didn’t think it was bad enough to include on the same level as the n-word. Times do change I guess

It’s a weird one. “Retard” is a technical term, jargon. It became a perjorative term.

Unlike the n-word that was always a pejorative.