Dude, I'm a Fag

Recently I was on a panel of gay, lesbian, and bisexual speakers for a class at a local alternative school. One of the other speakers, a gay man in his early 20s, told the class that his mother, a teacher, had asked him to tell them that just saying "that's so gay" was utterly devastating to any gay person, "like the N-word," he claimed, so they should never, never say "that's so gay."When I