This is a common tactic for the cultural Marxists, to put fear into the populace. To make us afraid we're going to say the wrong thing, and to control how we think of them, whoever "them" might be at the moment.
Today, I just happened to stumble across confirmation for something I had long known to be true. That is, that media consciously chose to stop using the neutral term "homosexual," in favor of the unprofessional, slang terminology, "gay and lesbian." They claim it's because "anti-gay extremists" (people who disagree with GLAAD) use it in a mean way. More likely, it's because the slang terms make homosexuality sound more appealing.
https://www.glaad.org/reference/offensiveOffensive: "homosexual" (n. or adj.)
Preferred: "gay" (adj.); "gay man" or "lesbian" (n.); "gay person/people"
Please use gay or lesbian to describe people attracted to members of the same sex. Because of the clinical history of the word "homosexual," it is aggressively used by anti-gay extremists to suggest that gay people are somehow diseased or psychologically/emotionally disordered – notions discredited by the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association in the 1970s. Please avoid using "homosexual" except in direct quotes. Please also avoid using "homosexual" as a style variation simply to avoid repeated use of the word "gay." The Associated Press, The New York Times and The Washington Post restrict use of the term "homosexual" (see AP & New York Times Style).
https://www.glaad.org/reference/style
