Calling someone fruity doesn't sit right with me

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So I've seen people on social media leave comments saying someone looks fruity, I didn't what it meant and from looking it's supposed to be slang for gay I believe. AIBU that this doesn't sit right with me calling people gay in a jokey kind of manner. For context the one I saw recently was between someone I follow on social media who I went to school with whose gay and one of their mates left a comment calling him fruity and he responded in a banter kind of way.

I agree OP - I'm fine with people in the LGBT community using it (I'm bisexual) but I get uncomfortable when people who aren't use it. I think they forget it's a homophobic slur which has been reclaimed, but still a slur nonetheless.

My old Dad often used to say 'What's up my old fruit?' meaning what's up Mate?
(Cockney rhyming slang Fruit Gum -Chum).

But in the 60s more people became used to Fruit meaning a gay man from the Polari language. Think Sandy and Julian from Around the Horne.

I've always thought of Fruity meaning sexy or a bit smelly.

When I was young, if a person was described as 'fruity', it meant they were 'randy'.