Yep. In school growing up in the 90s/00s, Toronto. Among friends as well.
I'd say yeah I'm a fag, bet I suck better than your girl. That'd shut them up.
And I was a 6ft tall 100lbs hairy dude that was on the Cricket team. I wasn't some delicate creature either.
There was also these two boyband eurotrash dudes in my History class (you know, spikey gelled hair with platinum frosted tips) and they'd always say as soon as I walked past them "don't drop the soap' and I didn't know wth that meant....Oz was on air but we only had basic cable. I figured it out like at the end of the semester and when tweedle doo and dee said it once again, I snapped back in as loud and as deep a voice as I could whilst remaining polite ....I said " even if I did, I've seen you both and you're each so small, I wouldn't even feel it going in".....even Mrs. S the History Teacher laughed along with the whole class. And those two high tailed it out of class to never bother me again (every one knew we were in the PhysEd together).
This other kid who'd call me a fag, who was on my Cricket team, he hit the nape of my neck with a Cricket Cork ball. Hurt like mf and I saw stars for a good couple of mins. When I came to, his face and my bat had one vigorous appointment. He never looked me in the eye again or made fun of me.
FF 5/6 yrs later....he finds my hotmail email, adds me on MSN Messenger and starts a video call with me in the middle of the night....he's naked.
Go figure.
That's all at bandcamp for now kids.