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Growing up I used those terms in a negative light. Even after I had a gay friend for the first time when I was in my late teens/early 20s, and he didn't mind it and also used those terms.

I would use them at the most "innocent" times, like say getting hit with a red shell in Mario Kart and I'd say "oh my god that is so gay!". Or one of my friends would say they were going to do something that I didn't want them to do, like take my video game or something, and I'd say "don't be gay". Even though I didn't specifically mean it to spread hate against gay people, it never truly occurred to me how much it could hurt someone or how wrong it was to use those words in that context.

Now though in the past several years I've had a lot more gay friends and the more I hear people say the words in those contexts the more it bothers me. I don't use them like that anymore, and I don't think people should. I understand that I wasn't right in using those words in that way and I stopped.
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