We had a campaign in Canada called “‘That’s so gay’ is so yesterday” when I was in school. A lot of classrooms had stickers or posters with that quote. IDK how well it worked in general but definitely had an effect on me, especially since I was at an age where I didn’t really understand what homosexuality even was, and one of my first exposures to the word was that it’s not okay to use it as an insult.

I’m old enough that teachers referred to us as the “retarded kids” not to our face at least but when they thought we couldn’t hear them.

By us I meant the learning disabled.