sry yall but i keep thinking the word "fag" was the word

sry its a hard word eh

I want to say I seen it on a documentary on HBO or Cinemax years ago. It had something to do about sexuality. Gay originally meant and was used for meaning "happy or carefree".

I cannot remember the exact details but in a T.V. interview a famous movie star years ago like sometime 1940s to maybe 1960s was questioned about his sexuality and his responce was something like "I am just so Gay". At the time, gay meaning happy or carefree, it hit headlines in news papers and now we have the term "Gay" meaning homosexual.

Lesbian comes from women of the Island of Lesbos.

The word lesbian is derived from the name of the Greek island of Lesbos, home to the 6th-century BCE poet Sappho.[3] From various ancient writings, historians gathered that a group of young women were left in Sappho's charge for their instruction or cultural edification.[7] Little of Sappho's poetry survives, but her remaining poetry reflects the topics she wrote about: women's daily lives, their relationships, and rituals. She focused on the beauty of women and proclaimed her love for girls.[8] Before the mid-19th century,[9] the word lesbian referred to any derivative or aspect of Lesbos, including a type of wine.[b]

[en.m.wikipedia.org]

As to my thoughts about "queer" usage comming from meaning "not quite right" as you say. If referring to reproductive practices for reproducing offspring, homosexuality is "the queer" way of having sex for reproducing, it is not quite right for producing offspring.

To the first question: We often treat the male form of something as the standard, and the female form as an aberration - think of "waitress" (why are not both sexes called waiters? It's the same job, after all). Hell, even "female" is just a derivative of the standard "male". It is discouraging, but not surprising, that our terms for homosexuality would follow a similar path.

As far as the word "queer" goes, I think that this is an example of the reclaiming of a once-derogatory term. Homophobes used the word in its original "not quite right" sense; the queer community chose to embrace the word as a way of stripping it of its negative connotation.