What if you were a teenager and had to attend school with a flamer harassing you every day - not taking no for an answer? In addition the teachers in the school punished you if you “threatened” him with words or actions of “hate” to get him to back off of you? In addition they egged on his sexual harassment of you.
That is what boys were dealing with at this school and at many schools across the Nation in the name of homosexual pride. This was hardly a case of a man dealing passing hit where homosexual aggression was not present.
Not taking "no" for an answer could make it a big deal.
I feel sorry for everyone involved in this case, and revulsion for the administrators and teachers who did not intervene on the side of common sense and manners.