How would you react to this

[howaboutthistime]

My teenage son had a friend over after school. I heard them talking. There is another boy in their school who is gay and proud to be gay. My son's friend said the boy in school is very annoying and should keep his gay pride to himself. I felt that was really nasty but as he's not my child I didn't want to say anything. Is my son's friend wrong for saying that about a boy who's gay?

My colleague is proud of her grandchildren, but I don’t want to hear about them 16 times a week, so I wish she’d keep them to herself.
He didn’t say he didn’t like him because he was gay, he is just sick of hearing about it, so I wouldn’t react in any way.

Kids seem to find a way to be horrible about absolutely everyone, so I would probably just shrug it off.

I’d possibly ask my son casually what were his thoughts on gay people and take it from there. Dunno how online you are but there’s a lot of nasty homophobic content targeting young men on TikTok etc so the friend may be getting his chat from there. Equally the lad at their school might just be annoyingly going on about it?

My mid teen DS harps about his personal interests at times and can bring anything back to his pet subjects.

I think from what he says sometimes his friends get fed up and I know his cousins find it annoying at times cos they say ‘shut up about bloody X.’ I don’t even think they actually dislike/disagree with his beliefs, just the constant chat about it.