How can I get his respect back?

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my boyfriend and i gotten into an argument over something really petty. It wasn't a big deal but I simply started it. He was trying to get under my skin by saying mean things about my appearance and basically telling me he settled for me but according to him that was a joke. So I sent him a screenshot of an old conversation between me, my friend and one of his friend discussing that we all thought he was gay. At that time, they were telling me to break up with him but I was like no. These messages were from a week ago, I initiated the topic and right in the middle of this I stopped and called him to discuss how I felt about him. I never truly found him gay but people were trying to convince me. Him and I had a long hour discussion and he claimed he wasn't mad that I found him gay and had a feeling i was going to ask him that one day. I only told him that me and my friend discussed it not his friend. So I went back to the group chat and defended him and they all stopped. I will say im not the kind of person to talk about someone negatively unless that person talked bad about me first. So he must've done something to me that i can't remember that made me start that topic which backfired because they all agreed.

Days past and we no had longer talk about it anymore but i did believe he was still secretly mad. Until we got into a fight. He said some mean stuff to me but stopped when he realized it was getting to me. But I called him gay and sent him the screenshot of the whole group chat that showed his friend in it. He got pretty pissed and told me he had no respect for me and that I'm too insecure and had some growing up i needed to do. He stayed mad at me the whole day and i even called and he still was mad at me. I noticed this morning that he unblocked me.

How can I get his respect back?
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