The tone-deaf mentality of his teachers didn't stop there.
'The whole premise of the game is that all the students run around and throw balls at the student designated as the queer … very similar to the old idea of stoning,' joked Whitt. Instead of changing the game, Whitt said the teacher decided he should be 'the queer' for the day. I remember saying to the coach, 'Can we play a different game - I don't like that game.' 'I still, at that time, did not realize, Oh ' I'm gay,' but the whole premise of the game bothered me. 'In my elementary school during PE, there was a favorite dodge ball game of all the students called 'smear the queer,'' said Whitt, of Decatur, Ala. He also quickly learned that the teachers didn't know what to do about it.
April 17, 2009— - From the time Preston Whitt, now 18, entered kindergarten, he knew he was different.
