At school gay comments were a regular thing, perhaps a bit more than racist ones but I feel in my experience comments expressed particularly at that age, were not necessarily meant as a homophobic insult. Many kids didn't really know what they were saying only that it was considered the "in" thing without understanding certain words' meanings. Sorry I refuse to type such words as I'm a grown up now and don't need to use such limited vocabularly. However, saying that, where racist comments are concerned it is fully understood what is meant...