I don't want my children to taunt gay classmates, but the school has stated that a student merely using "gay" as a derogatory term ("those pants are gay") when talking to another student is a "microaggression".
There’s no way any term referring to homos can be anything but inherently derogatory.
When I was a junior HS student back in the Pleistocene,!NOBODY was assumed to be gay. So if you called your classmates. Gay, Fag, Homo it was to get them to do something that they shouldn’t do and your parents would whoop you for doing. You didn’t badger anyone for being gay, you shamed them into ‘being a man’ Even if you were only 12.
It wasn’t a bad thing. Yeah it was a good thing.