"how am I supposed to explain gay to a child?"

My brother in Christ have you ever actually been around a child?? They will straight up ambush you with the most unhinged, bonkers, nihilist questions with a completely straight face. Questions that will cause grown adults to have an existential crisis if you think about them too long. Just yesterday in class a student stopped in the middle of playing a scale to ask me how does she even know if I exist or not and I had to sit quietly in a corner with that one for like an hour. PLEASE let me explain the gay. Explain the gay is fucking easy.

@Lana one of the earliest complex sentences my son read was from a "life in hell" comic: "today, the Supreme Court outlawed sodomy". He was four.
@tito_swineflu @Lana When my friends (grade 4/5?) came across the word "sodomy," they called me up. I said, "Do you want the dictionary definition or the slang one?" They wanted slang. "Butt sex," I said, and they hung up roaring with laughter. Too bad they didn't stick around for my slang definitions of oral sex, which is also considered sodomy. They got the gist.