More than 154,000 websites contain the phrase, "It's so gay," according to www.thinkb4youspeak.com.
And you can't walk the campus without hearing it dozens of times
In fact, "that's so gay" used to be my favorite expression. And I said it a lot.
It could be my response to the movie starting late or a book not being available. Just about anything at all really.
But that all changed during high school.
Freshmen year, a teacher constantly corrected me, telling me and the class it was wrong.
But I didn't care or even listen until one of my closest friends revealed he was gay during my sophomore year.
I was happy for him, but when I told some friends they just looked at me in surprise.
"Well," one said, "I always thought you were kind of a homophobe."
That really hit me.
I had said "that's so gay" so often, people assumed I had a problem with gay people.
At first, I shrugged it off, thinking, my newly "out" gay friend would tell me, if I was really offending people.
But he never said anything about the subject.
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