Well this is probably a poor example as he's never publicly stated that he's gay and does not at all represent how your average gay man behaves, but I recall asking my mother about Richard Simmons when I was no more than 3. She seemed to believe he was gay, though she did not explain precisely what that was.
Otherwise, it was actually the film Blazing Saddles maybe just two years later (my mother was not pleased with my dad for letting me watch it) with the scene of the male dancers who were rather clearly supposed to be gay. I thought they reminded me of the aforementioned Richard Simmons, asked my dad, and from what I recall he just said they're gay with some basic description akin to "instead of liking women they like men".
Obviously both examples were crazy flamboyant, but I think I'm a tad too old to have had a more conventional gay person be my first encounter... back then (and by that I mean only 25 years ago heh) it was generally either a source of comedy or just not spoken of or shown at all.
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