Did you ever pick on an alleged homosexual in high school?

Did you ever pick on an alleged homosexual when you were in school?

  • Yes (I'm under age 30)

    Votes: 1 2.6%
  • No (I'm under age 30)

    Votes: 6 15.4%
  • Yes (I'm between 30 and 45)

    Votes: 2 5.1%
  • No (I'm between 30 and 45)

    Votes: 10 25.6%
  • Yes (I'm between 45 and 60)

    Votes: 3 7.7%
  • No (I'm between 45 and 60)

    Votes: 12 30.8%
  • Yes (I'm over 60)

    Votes: 1 2.6%
  • No (I'm over 60)

    Votes: 4 10.3%
  • What's a homosexual?

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other/unsure

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    39
  • Poll closed .
No. But I got called "faggot," and I'm not. Might've been much worse if I'd gone to a public school. (At least, that's what I would've assumed before this Romney story broke.)
 
Never clowned people for being who they are....though the broski's and hipsters did catch a lot of shit off me.
 
No, but I did break up with an idiotic, meathead, homophobic boyfriend for doing so.
 
No, but I did call someone a faggot and stuff him in a trash can and roll it down a hill. It had nothing to do with his sexual orientation and everything to do with being annoying.
 
Probably. I don't remember doing so but it was commonplace. There were no openly gay people in school then so often it was meant more as an insult to a straight person and only inadvertently an attack on a real homosexual. Some kids obviously leaned that way but never dared to actually be out. They'd get picked on more. Don't recall picking on them but if I did I wouldn't be surprised.
 
No, I did laugh my ass off when it came dissecting time in Biology and Oceanography.

I don't think the two gay guys and several of the girls ever got closer than a foot and a half while I was laying open the shark and piglet.

The smell was Baaaad!

Thank god I'm a country boy! I had those specimens cut and tagged before the squealing stopped!:rolleyes:

We all got "A's" but teach knew who did the blade work... Hell, in both cases I was finished before the instructions were!:D
 
I answered "no" because I can't remember a single kid being openly gay and this many years later, I don't even remember anyone accused of actually BEING gay. "Faggot" was a common insult, however. Not one I ever used though. It was the boys who used it as an insult for the most part.

AFTER high school, when I was in college, I heard about a star high school athlete from our class being gay. I was surprised, but probably shouldn't have been. She came to class reunions and I don't think anyone gave her a hard time at all about being gay.
 
no. my prom date was gay. my parents couldn't have been happier.
 
No. But I got called "faggot," and I'm not. Might've been much worse if I'd gone to a public school. (At least, that's what I would've assumed before this Romney story broke.)

Probably. I don't remember doing so but it was commonplace. There were no openly gay people in school then so often it was meant more as an insult to a straight person and only inadvertently an attack on a real homosexual. Some kids obviously leaned that way but never dared to actually be out. They'd get picked on more. Don't recall picking on them but if I did I wouldn't be surprised.

I answered "no" because I can't remember a single kid being openly gay and this many years later, I don't even remember anyone accused of actually BEING gay. "Faggot" was a common insult, however. Not one I ever used though. It was the boys who used it as an insult for the most part.

AFTER high school, when I was in college, I heard about a star high school athlete from our class being gay.

These three posts basically make up my entire answer. I went to both public and private schools, and it was more or less the same at both.
 
It was very commonplace for us guys to call each other derogatory names implying everything from homosexuality to fucking bugs. To my knowledge none were actually gay or bug fuckers. I don't think my crew would of singled out a gay guy to harass although if we caught you fucking a bug we would never let you live that shit down.
 
Agree with Cheyenne's assessment that it was a more general insult.

I didn't go to school with kids who had people like vetteman, miles, Ishmael, koalabear, and the like as parents. So, generally, you didn't hear "faggot" being aimed at people who were allegedly gay.
 
I graduated high school in 1968. Nobody was out in 1968. I don't think Liberace, Truman Capote and Paul Lynde were out in 1968.

The homosexuality closet was so deep in 1968, I don't remember straight kids using it as insult to one another.

But looking back, there were one or two guys whose indescribable weirdness is now in blinding perspective. Oh, yeah.
 
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No, plain and simple

I picked on rich kids who thought they were better than everyone else because their parents had money. I had a lot of circles of friends from pretty much all the different cliques. But I never picked on the gay kids.

There weren't many "openly gay" guys but there were more than a few extremely effeminite ones. I got along with them really well.

But I gave some of those rich snotty kids a hard time.
 
The biggest, baddest lesbian was a bull-dyked Mexican girl and she had a harem of girls.

I once saw her bash a dude on the head with a plastic lunch tray and there was nothing to make fun of. And we never called her gay or lesbian, it was like she was a man and we all accepted it and moved on with our lives.
 
I graduated high school in 1968. Nobody was out in 1968. I don't think Liberace, Truman Capote and Paul Lynde were out in 1968.

The homosexuality closet was so deep in 1968, I don't remember straight kids using it as insult to one another.

But looking back, there were one or two guys whose indescribable weirdness is now in blinding perspective. Oh, yeah.

All three named persons are before my time. I can't see how anybody would think Liberace was straight. I grew up watching Bewitched reruns and just thought Paul Lynde was a character and never realized he was gay. Uncle Arthur and that laugh was hysterical.

Funny skit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlUAMmWzjpA
 
All three named persons are before my time. I can't see how anybody would think Liberace was straight. I grew up watching Bewitched reruns and just thought Paul Lynde was a character and never realized he was gay. Uncle Arthur and that laugh was hysterical.

Funny skit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlUAMmWzjpA

Up until very recently even flamboyant people like Liberace were not thought to be gay. It's just not how people saw the world. That began to change in the late 70's but it was a somewhat slow process. You gotta remember that something like Rock Hudson being gay was a huge shock and that wasn't that long ago.
 

Different ways. Bruising up an apple till it's soft inside but without breaking the skin and then throwing it at a group of them. As soon as it hits one it splatters across all of them.

Throwing small balls of clay at their cars as they drove by to show them off.

Stupid teenage stuff.
 
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