Today on a walk with my dog, I came across a sidewalk chalk drawing of two stick figures. One of them was yellow and smiling. The other one was blue with its eyes x-ed out. Above the first was written, "Mr. Fag, alive." Above the second was written, "smooshed." Both the writing and drawing style were obviously that of a young child, not a teenager.
Some days, you just want to crawl back into bed and snuggle with your dog, who cares not at all what race, gender, orientation, size, or age you are as long as you will scratch his ears and give him treats.
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There is always the chance that the kid didn't have any real comprehension of what calling someone a "fag" means, only that he has absorbed from the schoolyard or wherever that it is something bad. Or, he could have just been making up names for his character, and settled on giving him the last name "Fag", cause it's sort of a weird-sounding word. He did, after all call him "Mr."
But, in all likelihood, it was probably just some spiky-haired little bully who knew EXACTLY what he was doing, and whose father probably high-fived after he saw the drawing.