"Gay" -- who defines it

The LAT has a front page piece today about a young guy who took his own life because, they say, he was gay and kids at school treated him badly. Didn't read the whole thing but the thought occurred: how do they know he was gay? So far as this old fool knows, there's no infallible test for that. No app for that, you might say if you wanted to add a little humor to a dismal subject. The paper said he thought he was gay and that his mother thought so too. That doesn't make it so, necessarily. They might both have been wrong.

It's a tragedy when any young person loses his or her life. It's worse when a newspaper uses such a tragedy to sell newspapers or to promote a lifestyle that the newspaper favors. It appears that the LAT did both.