I was picked on for other reasons in grade school, too. (I didn't figure out I was bi until college.) But I was a weird kid, too.

At first, I was annoyd at the, "But what about the other reasons kids are bullied?" comments, because I felt it was very, "But, what about the straights?" (A la "What about the menz?" that comes up whenever someone tries to hold a discussion about a women's issue.) Derailing, y'know?

But then I realized, while some people were doing that, (and others are in denial about just how socially acceptable homophobic bullying is, to the point of being accepted and even perpetrated by teachers and administrators), at least some of the people were coming from a place of having been bullied and isolated for other reasons. And in that case, I think it's all to the good that people are raising awareness about that generally. Because the one common thing about high school is, it forces you to interact with people you'd never choose to associate with, including assholes; and those are the people that it's easier to avoid when you get older, and your choices about who you associate with get broader.

Actually, for me high school got better even during high school; everyone had their group, and while there were definitely the popular kids, it didn't seem like bullying the weak became a sport like it does in other schools. By the end of high school, my class was very live and let live.

This, incidentally, is why I'm opposed to School Spirit as a positive value -- our class's apathy I think made everybody more chill to one another.