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When did you know you were gay?

I realised when I was around 11. It wasn't sudden, I just slowly began to know. It's weird, you'd expect there'd be one moment suddenly where I'd think "Oh wow, I'm gay?!" Didn't happen.
 
No clue until I was 19 or 20. Just thought I was "undersexed". I've never been very "visually atuned", so I didn't ogle boys OR girls then. Finally, I wondered if maybe I was gay, so I deliberately TRIED to ogle guys. And something kicked in. I'd read somewhere that it wasn't unusual for guys to have a gay "phase", so decided to ride it out. Still waiting...

Lex
 
I knew I was "different" when I'd get these warm fuzzy feelings about Davey while watching Davey and Goliath on Sunday mornings before church.

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I started to put the pieces together when I was 11 or 12. I came to terms with it when I was 17 .
 
I was about 11 or 12 when i found out that yahoo had a image search function. Went nuts over that. Then when I was 14 I met this other out gay boy at high school. He was a mentor to me and i fell for him. Kinda hate him now.


Edit : Also when I discoverd Luke Perry and Jason Preistly on 90210. I think they're both one of the hottest celeberties alive, and i'll always want Brandon.
 
Apart from a sense of `otherness' from early youth, I just now sat up straighter and then chuckled at bsasfo's mention of Jim Palmer's underwear ads from years and years ago - looking at `em I just kinda KNEW.. then watching Streisand as Katy Moroski and Redford as Hubbell Gardner in The Way We Were in the lovemaking scenes > I suddenly realized it wasn't really her I was mad for ( tho I WAS ) it was HIM. Ooooh the young Robert Redford.... I knew. And look for that figure to this day !
 
I always knew I was different, and that I likes guys. Around (maybe) 10 or 11 I would think "yea, I like guys..." but it wasn't until around 12 or 13 when it dawned on me that "OH, I LIKE GUYS!". I've always been a loner, (still am), so I never really felt any peer pressure to be "like everyone else". Never bothered me to be gay. I thought it was kind of cool, like..."I've got a secret, I've got a secret!"
 
Around the same time that most all kids realize that they are anything. Whenever the sex/attraction switch got flipped in my head during puberty, probably around 12-13, I naturally gravitated towards men and didn't really think much of it. It helped that my parents were/are pretty much asexual (lol) and didn't notice (or care) that I never talked about girls, dated, etc.
 
12... I had my first serious crushes in middle school (David and Dan, esp. in the locker room). Basically when I started thinking about sex.

It was a long time until I could say, "I'm gay," even to myself, but looking back it was crystal clear from that point on, even if I wasn't ready to admit it. I could probably find suggestive stuff earlier (I was a sensitive kid, I liked watching figure skating...) but as soon I knew how to ask the question, there was no plausibly denying it (not to say I didn't try).
 
Hmmm... When I fell hopelessly, maddeningly and suicidally in love with a fellow classmate back in college.

Rick Astley's "Hopelessly Falling" was my torch song that year, and it goddamn hurt....
 
I was always aware that i felt this attraction to boys, but actually never made the connection of it with being gay until i was like 15 or 16.

When i was a kid I thought that everybody else felt the same but nobody said because men 'must' like women and women 'must' like men. Back in then, to me 'gay' was the stereotype gay, so i didn't see myself as one of them.

I have always been kind of naive.
 
Always knew I was attracted to exclusively my gender, but didn't go through the whole depression and acceptance of it until late last year
 
GeorgHerbet said:
Why the delayed reaction?
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I was being ignorant. I took the religion and what most homophobics were saying too seriously. I often wonder why I took so long to stop and think about life and for myself for once.
 
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