History HaveAGayOldTime / Film

** In the same movie he teases his boss by calling him a 'skinhead', a term that has taken on extra implications in the decades since then.

** In the same movie he teases his boss by calling him a 'skinhead', which simply meant bald, without any of the additional negative connotations the term has since acquired.

* Invoked deliberately for the 1981 comedy ''Franchise/{{Zorro}}, The Gay Blade'', in every line of dialogue throughout the movie.

* The word "cenobite" originally referred to a monastic living as part of a religious community. Since the release of ''{{Hellraiser}}'' and its sequels, however, the word now brings to mind pain-loving demons.

* In ''{{Film/Belle}}'', much is made of Elizabeth "coming out" and Dido ''not'' "coming out." It did not mean "to announce one's sexual orientation" as it does today: "coming out"
meant that one was officially on the marriage market and was looking for suitors.

** [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Perhaps not, but I’d love to see you try.]]

** There was a night club called the Glory Hole in Indianapolis in the 1960s.
*** There's a pizza place in Indianapolis RIGHT NOW called D&C Pizza. Indianapolis is not a good example of anything.

* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}} II'': Dana Barrett and Peter Venkman are enjoying a date out together when the remainder of the Ghostbusters team bursts into the restaurant rambling about ectoplasm in the city's underground and covered in a viscous, sticky substance (although, thank God, it's purple rather than white...) Venkman's response? "Boys! Boys! You're scaring the straights!" In one country this was straight-up subtitled as (translated back to English) "you're scaring the heterosexuals".

** UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode did object to the title. when it was called ''The Gay Divorce'' because a divorce should never be happy. The censors agreed to a compromise solution that it was possible for a divorcee to be happy. Boy, the Hays office sure managed to avoid pulling a boner with that one!

* ''Black Sabbath'' features Creator/BorisKarloff delivering the line "Can't I fondle my own grandson?"

* The term also comes up a few times in the original E.C. Segar strips.

** It's more likely he was using it in its original meaning. 'Straight' was originally used as the opposite of weird or eccentric (as in StraightMan). He was using his roundabout sense of humour to call them weirdoes. When homosexuality became a big enough issue, 'straight' was more frequently used as slang for heterosexual, but with this meaning it was still invoked as a comparison to something out of the ordinary.

* One might think this is what happens in ''Film/BringingUpBaby'', when [[ItMakesSenseInContext David ends up wearing Susan's nightgown]] and answers the door. "Why are you dressed like that?" "Because I just turned ''gay'' all of a sudden!" It's actually one of the earliest uses of the modern definition on film (though mostly actors and other Hollywood types used it at that point).

* When the title character of ''Film/{{Sabrina}}'' learns how to make a souffle, the teacher tells her and the other students, "The souffle, it must be gay. Gay like...two butterflies dancing the waltz in the summer breeze."

** The HaysCode did object to the title. when it was called ''The Gay Divorce'' because a divorce should never be happy. The censors agreed to a compromise solution that it was possible for a divorcee to be happy. Boy, the Hays office sure managed to avoid pulling a boner with that one!

* ''Film/AngelsWithDirtyFaces'':

* The use of "boob" to mean "fool" in ''Film/HortonHearsAWho'' feels almost like a DefiedTrope the way they repeatedly deliver it completely straight.

* One might think this is what happens in ''Film/BringingUpBaby'', when [[ItMakesSenseInContext David ends up wearing Susan's nightgown]] and answers the door. "Why are you dressed like that?" "Because I turned ''gay'' all of a sudden!" It's actually one of the earliest uses of the modern definition on film (though mostly actors and other Hollywood types used it at that point).

* ''Disney/AliceInWonderland'' used this in "The Caucus-Race," where everybody feels "fancy-free and gay."