"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 Heck, I independently deduced the concept of gay when I was about 10: "most X like to play with other X when they are kids but then when they grow up they fall in love with Y -- but I (an X) prefer to play with Y, so maybe when I grow up I will fall in love with X?"