Fäggots have existed prominently since the beginning of recorded time . MoGoober can affirm this. You people have just politicized it to have something to blame your lot in life.
Deuteronomy 22:5 deals with the issue cross-dressing / transvestism (men dressing in women’s clothing and vice versa). In this passage God commands that a woman is not to wear that which pertains to a man and a man is not to wear that which pertains to a woman, for all that do so are an “abomination.”
It was acceptable in imperial Rome too … which party was that? I saw much worse on my first trip to MardiGras in the 60s.