• Childhood Signs that You Were Gay?

[doctorsun]

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When I was five, I was obsessed with Jem. I even put on my sister's dress once and pretended to BE Jem. My father wasn't so proud of that one. A couple years later, though, I was REALLY into Power Rangers, so it evened out.

 

[Dduder]

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Pretty much all gay men are effeminate to some degree. In fact, having feminine characteristics is conditione sine qua non for being gay. Why? Because being attracted to men is a feminine characteristic. You cannot find men attractive if you don't have some femininity. This is why the 100% genuinely butch gay man is a gay fantasy that only exists in the masturbatory dreams of gay men. Why would a 100% masculine man be attracted to men? Why would he want something that he already has? People are emotionally/sexually attracted to the opposite gender they emotionally identify with. People who identify with the female gender, heterosexual women and homosexual men, are attracted to males. People who identify with the male gender, heterosexual men and homosexual women, are attracted to females. Being effeminate does not make gay men better or worse than straight men; it makes them only different. There is nothing wrong with being effeminate. When I say that gay men are effeminate, I am not saying that it is a bad thing. I am not making a value-judgement. It is gay men who have a problem with being effeminate, not me. I am saying this because I know that I am going to get angry answers for typing what I just did, so I am clarifying that there is nothing wrong with being the way that gay men are.

 

[piano1]

I loved playing "Barbie" with my sister who also dressed me up for our annual carnivals as "Miss Foo Foo". At jr hi, I feel in love with the dude that could climb the rope in gym class, That "nailed it" for me - I knew I was gay!

 

[moniker]

I always had strange attractions to guys my own age who appeared in TV series.

 

[chace1617]

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^Pretty much all the signage I needed. I was quite sure that I was indeed a 'mo when I saw that one.

hang on, Miss J is gay!!!!

 

[chace1617]

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^Pretty much all the signage I needed. I was quite sure that I was indeed a 'mo when I saw that one.

hang on, Miss J is gay???????!

 

[Telstra]

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Sucking my best friends cock when I was like 7 was a pretty good hint, lol.

Really ? LOL

 

[BRIOHAZARD]

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Signs I was gay?


That I played with my sisters Barbies.

Fantasized seeing my boy friends nude.

Getting nude with a few of said boy friends.

 

[saymyname]

I never related to the correlation between girly stuff as a kid and being gay.

For me it was more like what other people said. Crushing on other boys. Noticing boys. Liking the underwear ads. I really liked tights nylon stuff though, like dressing up like spiderman and the power rangers for haloween. Really liked the x-men guys. Reallllly liked wrestling and wrestling with my friends. Really always loved the vulnerable male characters in TV shows like Tommy the green ranger and Sting from WCW.

Also, as young as like age 7, sticking my face in the ass and crotch of my boy friends and smelling them was a good sign too.

I did cry a lot though. And in my adult life I happen to be a bit emotional/sensitive for a guy. Haha.

 

[saymyname]

I just read the article and have to say I don't think it makes a lot of sense, this part in particular:

Another caveat is that researchers in this area readily concede that there are probably multiple—and no doubt very complicated—developmental routes to adult homosexuality. Heritable, biological factors interact with environmental experiences to produce phenotypic outcomes, and this is no less true for sexual orientation than it is for any other within-population variable. Since the prospective and retrospective data discussed in the foregoing studies often reveal very early emerging traits in prehomosexuals, however, those children who show pronounced sex-atypical behaviors may have “more” of a genetic loading to their homosexuality, whereas gay adults who were sex-typical as children might trace their homosexuality more directly to particular childhood experiences.

- Wouldn't that research suggest the opposite? Wouldn't the environmental factors like sex atypical behavior indicate that that homosexuality was more influenced by nurture (and probably nature too) whereas people who end up homosexual that did not display very much sex atypical behaviour as kids, couldn't we just be more naturally homosexual? Why is it that because I didn't play with a barbie or makeup that I'm designated as having some kind of traumatic childhood experience that 'made' me gay? Any young gay experiences I had were MY suggestion, MY idea, MY desire with other boys MY age... wouldn't that indicate that there was nothing else fueling it BESIDES desire and therefor if anything it's 'more' natural? I think the idea that if you display gender atypical behaviour than you're naturally gay is kind of falling into a really fucked up heterosexist paradigm that is conflating the relationship between sex and gender wayyy too much. It's also assuming that, unless you're a girly boy (read: 'bottom'), you aren't intrinsically, inherently gay, instead, something HAPPENED to you... how totally double sided and gender essentialist...

 

[fasteddy]

I was never femmy or interesting in dressing up but I remember always being attracted to men even at a very young age. I dated girls but was more interested in their borthers. "Playing" with other boys in the neighborhood started when I was 8 or 9. My next door neighbor and I sucked each other well before puberty and got together a number of times over the years. I didn't even realize that my attraction was "abnormal" until I was 13-14. Oops, too late, I had already acquired an expertise for cocksucking.

 

[Ellybelly909]

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I loved cock, I wanted to see my classmate's dicks in the locker room. I loved seeing cock in Playgirl magazine. I fantasized about my male friends and their naked bodies. This all happened around 6th grade. Also, I loved checking out guys in their tight jeans and what their bulge looked like.

 

[Adrock-JD]

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I sucked a lot of dick when I was young. Does that count?

Only if you enjoyed it.

 

[Appleman34]

OK so let's see...

I put my mom's wig on my head and danced around to Britney Spears.

The best part about sleeping over my friend's house was playing with his sister's barbies.

The only sport I watched was wrestling.

When we played house, I'd be the mother and made damn sure the father was cute.

I asked my best friend to show me his goods.

Yep... thats about it. And EVERYONE was shocked when I came out. I was like... really? I kind of made it obvious for you.

 

[Audio Tech]

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I played video games, basketball, watched TMNT and Fat Albert(and other shit and not-so-shit cartoons whose names i can't remember), liked building with Lego's, messing with spiders and eating blackberries off the bushes, liked karate and boxing and wrestling...

Had both girl and guy friends - one of my best female pals in Germany had a doll house and Barbie's, but i was more interested in her SNES(because we didn't have one)...

Thinking about it, i didn't have any stereotypical "signs". Except maybe eating rainbow sherbet or something.

Pretty much the same here, minus the rainbow sherbet. I was a pretty typical boy with the one exception that I wasn't desperate to fuck girls.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

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http://www.queerty.com/how-to-find-out-if-your-kid-is-a-pre-homosexual-20100922/

How to Find Out If Your Kid Is A Pre-Homosexual




Is your child destined to become a homosexual? Perhaps! Researchers looking into the onset of sexuality in children have come up with a checklist (okay, that's a serious oversimplification) to determine if your wee one is a "pre-homosexual." And it's not just whether little Billy prefers to play with Barbies.

Scientific American points us to research from J. Michael Bailey, a psychologist from Northwestern University, and Canadian psychiatrist Kenneth Zucker.

So on the basis of some earlier, shakier research, along with a good dose of common sense, Bailey and Zucker hypothesized that homosexuals would show an inverted pattern of sex-typed childhood behaviors (little boys preferring girls as playmates and infatuated with their mothers’ make-up kits; little girls strangely enamoured by field hockey or professional wrestling…that sort of thing). Empirically, explain the authors, there are two ways to investigate the relation between sex-typed behaviors and later sexual orientation. The first of these is to use a prospective method, in which young children displaying sex-atypical patterns are followed longitudinally into adolescence and early adulthood, such that the individual’s sexual orientation can be assessed at reproductive maturity. Usually this is done by using something like the famous Kinsey Scale, which involves a semistructured clinical interview about sexual behavior and sexual fantasies to rate people on a scale of 0 (exclusively heterosexual) to 6 (exclusively homosexual). I’m a solid 6; I often say that I wanted to get out of a vagina at one point in my life, but ever since then I’ve never had the slightest interest in going back into one.

The research is actually somewhat old (1995) but has been expounded upon by further studies. Which are slightly uncomfortable to read!

Another caveat is that researchers in this area readily concede that there are probably multiple—and no doubt very complicated—developmental routes to adult homosexuality. Heritable, biological factors interact with environmental experiences to produce phenotypic outcomes, and this is no less true for sexual orientation than it is for any other within-population variable. Since the prospective and retrospective data discussed in the foregoing studies often reveal very early emerging traits in prehomosexuals, however, those children who show pronounced sex-atypical behaviors may have “more” of a genetic loading to their homosexuality, whereas gay adults who were sex-typical as children might trace their homosexuality more directly to particular childhood experiences. For example, in a rather stunning case of what I’ll call “say-it-isn’t-so science”—science that produces data that rebel against popular, politically correct, or emotionally appealing sentiments—controversial new findings published earlier this year in the Archives of Sexual Behavior hint intriguingly that men—but not women—who were sexually abused as children are significantly more likely than non-abused males to have had homosexual relationships as adults.

Part of me wants to think "Oh god, tell me that Richard Cohen isn't right." And the other part of me thinks, "If all these bigots really don't want their sons to turn out gay, they'll actually work harder to keep their kids safe from pedophiles. Like those in the Catholic Church."

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[Geoffboyardee]

I was always attracted to boys. Ever since I could remember, I would look at the packages to men's underwear and even pleasure myself (I know, cheesy words) to them. I remember, my first orgasm was when I was 5 and in the bathtub. I even discovered edging by myself so I was very mature for my age. As a matter of fact, my parents always said that I was easy to raise since I never cried and a I never talked back to my Mom, even when I was a teen. Well, I actually didn't talk back to my Mom. My stepdad was an ass that made his own daughter, my step sister, hate him and my Dad was a dumbass homophobe that I had no pleasure in getting to know after my junior year.

Just for the record, I took care of my dad more than he took care of me after I was 8. I would also like to add that my Mom and Dad got divorced when I was 3. We went in and out of apartments and eventually lived in the last one he owned. I always had to help him clean out some of the most DISGUSTING rooms ever. Then, he started getting heavily into drugs and became a total idiot (illegal gambling, and people I'm sure were either hoes or druggies). Plus, I was also morbidly obese so I decided to lose weight in 7th grade (which I did, yay) and also lost some of that childhood innocence I used to have.

I forget what else I was about to say. Sorry for getting of topic. I never really had anyone to talk to and vent to this is a good site for doing so. Sorry if I also took up your guy's time with this post. Thanks.

 

[JOHN B]

I have memories of borrowing the neighbors records (this was long before CDs!) of West Side Story and Oklahoma! How could my parents not know I was gay! lol......

 

[fetaby]

My 3rd grade backpack. I had to have it and can remember being extremely happy when I got it.

 

[smoothoralbottom]

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I got into my dad's porn stash when I was a bout 7 or 8 years old. I did like the girls (and still do). But I took a porn video over to my babysitter's house. She a had a son who was about 3 or 4 years older than me. We watched it late at night and he showed me how to masturbate. He began touching me later on and even had me and another boy do things to each other. We kissed, we both tasted each other's penises. The one time the older boy put his penis between my buttcheeks, I thought it was an amazing feeling. A couple of years later, I wanted to see what it felt like again, so I started penetrating myself with inanimate objects. I was about 11 or so. That's when I knew I like getting my hole fucked.