Start Young

One of the many incredible things I learned from my gay friends is that when kids are name calling boys, they often use the term 'bakla' and 'bading'. It's their term for someone who's weak or someone who hurts other girls; and if you think about it, gay people are one of the strongest kind of people I know because amidst the unconventionality, they stick to what they believe in and fight for who they are. Also, men often maltreat women, and not gays, just look at % of women abused by their husbands/boyfriends. So what I'm saying here is that, it's really unfair to use the term 'bakla' and 'bading', an actual description for real people, for sogmething that they are not, something that is so wretched.

I hope parents and teachers will teach kids about gender at a young age; gender which includes male, female, gay, lesbian,  etcetera. They need to understand that being gay isn't bad, but hurting people is.