its snowing

You seem to speculate that your bullies were jealous of you because you are more successful with women than they are, or because they were secretly gay. In my case, we had very little parental supervision and everyone bullied one another to some degree. We used to play a game of tag where the person who got caught by ‘it’ would be tied to a tree and lashed with a switch, and the person tied to a tree had to escape in order to become ‘it.’

You absolutely should not have been punished for defending yourself in that situation; strangulation is attempt at murder. Did anything happen to the other kid?