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When a freshman who wore pink on his first day at school was mocked by bullies and was called gay, it offended the sensibilities of the Central Kings Rural High School. Because hey, you can’t call somebody who seem to act like gay “gay” coz that’s just offensive.

So David Shepherd and Travis Price, two students who absolutely had nothing to do with it, decided to rally other students by making them wear pink in retaliation.

“It’s my last year. I’ve stood around too long and I wanted to do something,” said David.

They used the Internet to encourage people to wear pink and bought 75 pink tank tops for male students to wear. They handed out the shirts in the lobby before class last Friday — even the bullied student had one.

“I made sure there was a shirt for him,” David said.

They also brought a pink basketball to school as well as pink material for headbands and arm bands. David and Travis figure about half the school’s 830 students wore pink.

It was hard to miss the mass of students in pink milling about in the lobby, especially for the group that had harassed the new Grade 9 student.

“The bullies got angry,” said Travis. “One guy was throwing chairs (in the cafeteria). We’re glad we got the response we wanted.”

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