I think it is disgusting that my eldest son has had to defend our friends and family to wrongly opinionated kids. It makes you wonder what they've learned from their parents and sad for all involved.
possibly a similar upbringing to what we had (and possibly the reason my bro still struggles with his homophobia) - my dad is very racist (and thinks his comments are funny) - but only against certain groups. he is also very opinionated about homosexuals and thinks it's hilarious to tell my lesbian cousins jokes that are just wrong (but becuase they're gay and they're about gay women, they must like it wtf?). he shows them respect and truly loves them cos of who they are, but that's a unique situation - if he were to see a couple holding hands in the street he'd snigger

as a child from that sort of upbringing, it makes it damn hard to NOT let that stuff stick. thankfully, we started having a lot of contact with h and j when i was maybe 12 i think - so it was at a point where i was young enough to form my own opinions on their relationship - but old enough to know that dad was saying the wrong thing. my bro was a couple of years older, and a lot of what dad had said had rubbed off on him and he still struggles. he isn't negative towards people - he just isn't comfortable, esp with PDA's lol as a teen though, he was one of those kids making the nasty comments cos he didn't know any better