Mav (or other Brit): Is queer still used in Britspeak to mean 'odd', 'peculiar', or 'eccentric'?

I shall never forget the time my mother invited a friend of hers and her husband to dinner with us. The friend was a British war bride from Nottingham and still (1957) spoke British English. In the course of dinner, she declined several of the items on the table and explained, "I know I'm awfully queer, but there are only a few things I eat." My younger brothers and sisters (ages 12, 10, 8 and 4) nearly choked to death trying to stifle their laughing.