'I walked up to him and said 'Why did you post this?' He said 'It was just a post.' And I said 'Well, it's not just a post. 'He made an anti-gay post with a picture of me on it saying how he hated gays and a bunch of throwing up emojis all over it,' Steffy told Insider.
When, according to Steffy, a classmate posted a homophobic message on Snapchat using a photo of him, it was the last straw. The junior at LaPorte High School in Indiana says that he's been enduring homophobic bullying since he came out in seventh grade, from hateful slurs to food thrown at him in the cafeteria.