In an assembly about drunk driving, a straight boy with a really high voice was shown to be killed by a drunk driver.  When waiting for our bus, me and some of my friends were talking about how sad this was, when one guy piped up, saying: "He was a faggot; he deserved to die."

"Why would you want to be gay when it differs from the social norm?"

Even my friends call me an it....They're serious too.

Today I got out of GSA and then went to class. I asked to go to the bathroom. I was heading down there and a random teacher asked "Are you sure you're going into the right one? Oh wait. You don't have one. You need your own gender-f---ed one"

Four years ago in grade 8 I came to one of my teachers to tell them that the other girls were calling me a dyke and a homo. She looked me in the face and said "Well are you queer?". I looked her in the face and told her to go f---k herself.

A couple of students in a class last year would constantly call one student "gay" or "fag". They would write it on the board in large letters. The teacher in our class saw it every day and eitehr told them to be quiet or did nothing.

When I came out to my friends, I asked them if they were ok with it. They all said yes. But my one friend was constantly making fun of me behind my back. I felt so betrayed. She lied right to my face.

The first day in grade 12 when I went to my class my teacher told me that I was "BUTCHED" and that I didn't belong. So I dropped that class that day.

Grade 9, just after I came out, a few guys found it funny to push me down the stairs, into lockers, and dons of other physical stuff. One kid mentioned that they shouldn't be hitting a girl and they said that I wasn't one so it was ok.

Various students in a class last year would constantly call another student 'gay' and 'fag', even to go so far as writing it on the board. This happened regularly.

Rumours that 2 new students transferring to our school "Had" to leave their old school because people found out they were lesbians. They were ostracized at our school too.

A friend of mine had "fag" carved into her locker door. It took the school 3 weeks to paint over the writing, yet you could still see the word.

When I came out in grade 9 students moved their desks away from mine so they didn't have to sit near me.

When my daughter was in senior kindergarten, she told her teacher she had 2 step-moms (her dad's wife and her mother's wife). The teacher told her that wasn't possible and she was wrong.

In grade 8 I had "F--k you stupid DYKE" scrawled on my locker. I ended up being suicidal and afraid to go to school. I almost failed 3 different classes because I missed so much school.

"FAG" was carved into my locker before I started using it and then later on in the year it got more grafitti. It hasn't been repainted yet.

A boy walked into a girls washroom because he didn't feel comfortable going into the boys. Students would say "Get out!" or "You shouldn't be in here" or just say "What a fag".

"So she's gay? Then why are you her friend?"

A teacher commented to elementary student who had 2 moms "What do you mean you don't have a dad? We're you born in a testtube? Everyone has a father".

When my little sisters friends found out I was a lesbian they asked her if I tried to molest her all the time.

Oddly enough, my teacher stops the racist comments not the gay ones.

I am called dyke, lesbo, mentally retarded, bush muncher, f---ing homo many times in a day. I will never report it. I'm so tired of it.

One of my best friends from church, when she found out I was gay, told me she thought I should stop coming to church. She said it like a warning. Like she was doing me a favour because I was offending God and he would kill me for it. All I was doing was praying.

In Eastwood's cafeteria I sat with my arm around my girlfriend. Suddenly, a girl came up to us and pointed at her friend. She then said "Do you think you could stop? We're trying to eat" and walked away.

In elementary school I was accused of being gay. I wasn't out yet and wasn't comfortable dealing with it. I asked a girl out and there suspicion died down. I came out two years later, found the girl I dated and apologized. We're good friends now and she has come out as bisexual. Coincidence.

"Why don't they just cut off their dicks?"

A guy was sitting in class and someone said "So where is your boyfriend" and he was not gay. The person said that just because he had a high voice.

Once I hid in the bathroom all lunch hour because of a bully who called me gay. But now, I realize that being a homosexual is not a character flaw. It's a blessing.

A (female) staff member was disturbed by two female students --out lesbians--who were showing affection. The staff member was upset. No such concerns were raised about our heterosexual students showing affection.

When I was in math one time the teacher made a gay joke. That wasn't the bad part. It was just weird to have everyone stare at me to see what I'd do.

It takes a lot to tell someone to stop when they are being intolerant. Personally whenever I hear the term faggot or gay I make a point to stand up to them., Once I yelled at a guy in class for using the word fag. The teacher who heard the fight came over but instead of lecturing the kid for using an inappropriate term she told ME to calm down because I was making a fuss over nothing.

Some girl in the hallway started calling me names like dyke. My girlfriend stood up for me and almost got into a fight with this other girl. Teachers broke them up. We all went to the office and the principal said we would deal with the situation after x-mas break....nothing was said or done and this girl still gives me looks in the halls.

In religion class my teacher had one of the other staff in to talk and he told us that being homosexual is a sin. One of the other students asked "Because _____ is gay does that mean she's going to hell?" and the speaker answered "Yes".

Lately a guy down the hall from me enjoys calling out Dyke in a sing song tune type way every time I'm at my locker. I only realize he's been saying it after I walk away.

I was sitting alone with my Mom one day, when she says "Do you like girls?". I hesitated, and asked to change the subject. She told me she wanted Grandkids, So I had to marry a man.

Ive Known I'm Lesbian For As Long As I Can Remeber And I Really Wanted To Tell Someone But I Didn't Know Who. So I Thought It Would Be Easier Telling My Friends. I Burst Into Tears When I Told Them Because I Thought They Would Hate Me, But They Were Okay With It...I Thought My One Friend Told Another Girl In The School And Pretty Soon Almost Everyone Knew I Felt So Embarassed Everyone Was Making Fun Of Me And Everyone Was Threating To Tell My Mom (and I Knew I Couldnt Tell Her) So I Lied And Said It Wasnt True, Luckaly I Don't Go To That School Anymore I Go To KCI Hopefully things will be better there...I Just Wanna Be Myself I Don't Wanna Hide It Anymore

i was walking to mcdonalds for lunch and it was just after i got  my hair cut really, really short. he asked if i was a lesbian because i looked like a guy, i said that i was. he just looked at me in a weird way and said "thats so gross, how can a girl like another girl!?"

When I came out to my friends i thought they were fine with it, until they stopped inviting me to things 1 month later when I told them about my new girlfriend.

i like hanging out with my one friend because she doesnt mind that im bi and supports me, we were going to go to the mall on the way home her dad came to pick us up and was making gay jokes the hole way he was laughing, her mom was laughing and even she was laughing, i felt like i was going to cry.

i was walking to my locker to get my lunch and some person came up to me and yelled dyke right at my face in frount of a lot of people and they just laughed.

 "EEWWW!! she a dyke! why do u hang out with her?"

My gf at the time and I were sitting at the very back on the bus. I was lying on her lap. The bus stopped to let a passenger on as she walked on looking for a seat she saw us at the back of the bus. In shock she stop dead in her tracks, had a discusting look ok her face and got right back off the bus at that very same stop she had got on.

My friends give me a hard time for taking my 6 year old to the gay pride parade each year

Called butch dyke by grade 8 teacher.

Last year, in grade 11, my girlfriend and I were walking through the hallway and just holding hands. Some guy looked at us and gave us the most disgusting look and yelled out, as he was walking by, "That's f*cking disgusting!"

I was walking downtown with my BFF and someone yelled out "Bawty Boy!".

My former principal was concerned if there was too much support for questioning youth by gay adults, they would be 'encouraged' to be gay.

"You're a girl, you can't wear that"
People couldn't understand that my best friend was a boy. They teased me and said we were dating and doing horrible things. He stopped being my best friend. :(

"We shouldn't have gay clubs in schools...it's not like we have straight clubs."

"It's not natural"

Stranger stalked my gay friend at a park, then he was saying stuff "You're wrong,...etc!" and "it just was wrong". My best friend did nothing but sit there and take it.

Don't wanna be bullied? Don't be gay.

"I don't condone your behaviour"

Grandmother talking about granddaughter's coming out to the family:

"I don't know why so many people are turning gay. Maybe something is wrong with our air or food." (yes, she was serious).

On facebook, a boy said he hated gay people, The End. Everyone commented including his bi girlfriend...who agreed with him.

In high school I was really surprised when a lifelong friend--a good person--said she didn't care what gay people did "Behind closed doors" but they shouldn't do it in PUBLIC!". We're still friends, but she has since married (a man) and settled in traditionally...and I still haven't told her I like girls.

Hearing "That's gay"

My brother saying (with disdain) "Don't be such a lesbian"

My mum uses my sexuality as something to talk about for attention and sympathy...when she's DRUNK!

"Why can't you just be a girl?"

My mom stayed home and gave up a week's pay-because she thought it'd be better spent crying over the loss of her son.

Since I've come out to him, my dad hasn't spoken to me...It's been 4 months...he was my best friend.

How Gay are you?

"I'm totally OK with 'Bill'. He's a great guy. But I don't think he's supposed to be in our church if he's gay"

A teacher said she couldn't support GSA's in schools because "Gay people are promiscuous"

Getting shouted at from people in a car driving by

"There's no such thing as bisexual, so you must be a lesbian."

"No such thing as a bisexual. They just don't know what they want."

My sister says "I support gays. I just don't think they have the right to get married."

Heard a student say "You f*(kin faggot"

I was talking home from a friend's house and some guy yells from his car "fag".

Being scared to walk down the halls because a group of guys were standing at the end.

My dad said no one will want to be with me cuz I am bi so guys will think I will go to a girl and girls will think I will go to a guy.

My brother and his friend were walking outside holding hands and 2 men called them "fags" and said they were "f*&*ing gross".

An ad for a pro-LGBTQ event came on the screen. The young man beside me turned to his parents and loudly said "That shouldn't be allowed. They shouldn't be able to advertise stuff like that. Gross."

My sister won't even look at me the same...she thins I'm wrong and shouldn't be me.

Every year when I go to the pumpkin patch with my aunts people stare and say it's disgusting because two people of the same sex can't fall in love.

My mom makes comments about how I act with my friends, she calls me a lesbian. I'm afraid to tell her I'm bi.

Sometimes when I walk past preps they grunt and call me faggot.

In grade 9 my gym teacher said that going outside in gym clothes, when we didn't have to, would be gay.

Getting called a fag by grade 10 teacher.

"Why do you care about gay people so much? Are you gay or something?"

I couldn't tell my mom whyat the gsa conference was about.

Teacher: "Let's talk about love between a man and a woman."

Student: "What about a man and a man or a woman and a woman?"

Teacher: "We're talking about REAL love."

"I can't believe that they're letting faggots marry in New York."

One of my best friends called me a b*tch because I told her I was bi/questioning. Now when I walk down the halls her sister in grade 12 gives me glares and mouthes fag. :(

"That's SO GAY"

"Are you a lesbian cause people talk about it non-stop! Friends/peers ask "all" the time everyday."

I was gay bashed a lot in grade 9/10. So bad that I was switched to a different change room in gym. I also started self harm as an "outlet" for my anger and depression.

Sometimes when my dad and sister are mad at me they call me homo or faggot.

If you're gay you have the devil in you.

I once experienced a peer move away from me in class because he felt 'uncomfortable' and that I would "hit on" him.

People are constantly stating how "obvious" it is that their sexual partner would be of the opposite sex...cause y'know girls can't POSSIBLY like other girls.

Your grandmother would be ashamed.