When I was like 12 some kid called me a fag, and I sat bewildered as I tried to figure out why they had just called me a cigarette

Fag is a word for cigarettes in England right

Should have beat that kids ass

I got outed my Junior year. It was pretty sucky in my small minded traditional rural town. Shit happens, though.

Kids are mean. You just have to be different in some way to be teased.

Should've kicked him in the shins

I always wondered how a burning stick (fagot) became a name for gay. Later I made friends with a couple from Scotland who referred to their smokes as fags. "Fetch me my fags" was a common expression between them.

that's so queer of people eh!

They called you a group of sticks held together, which is what that word means