This is a Q & A thing - answer if you want to.

I want to get some feedback from people about these basic questions:
1) When did you first get an inkling you might be attracted to the same sex? For me, it was as a young boy playing with my friend (same age) naked.
2) What particular incident(s) pushed you "over the edge?" When I was on a band trip in high school, we all got drunk and some dude waved his big dick in my face...like hard to resist, you know?
3) How do you feel about your sexuality now? Are you comfortable with it? I still struggle, honestly speaking.

I'd really like to know some opinions. Thanks!

 

1. Five or six; I thought boys were cute. I wasn't aware that my attraction to the same sex wasn't "normal" until late elementary school/early middle school. Then I denied it until 8th grade. I then just accepted who I was. I didn't really have a hard time with it. I know many who loathed themselves for being gay. That was never the case for me.

2. I had homo-erotic experiences. Lots of truth and dare with other guys. Incidents that could have been construed as gay behaivor. But there was one incident. I always kind of knew.

3. I'm very comfortable with my sexuality. I'm out to everyone. I've been open about my sexuality with everyone for a little more than a year. Before that My close friends had known for 2-3 years. I love being a fag. I can't imagine being unhappy with my sexuality. I love who and what I am. However, everyone I've come out to has been very supportive.

 

1) It's too hard to tell. It is one of those things I've felt all my life, even as a 3 year old playing with his mates. I've never really worried about it until I learned that this was "socially unacceptable" until middle-school at which point I tried to change. A few years of trying to change and I just gave up and accepted it.

2) I used to wrestle shirtless with some neighbourhood boys. Later in life I had sleepovers with some other guy. He told me the only way to come onto the top bunk with him was to show him my penis. He flashed his and I flashed mine. Subsequent sleepovers were always very enjoyable if you catch my drift.

3)I am, at present, comfortable and happy with my sexuality. All of my friends know and all have been supportive. I'm going to spill the beans to my family in August and I'm sure they'll be okay with it, even if it does take them some time to accept it.

 

I used to play around with my female friend as a kid. And being unsupervised we would do lil sexual things to each other.

At about the age of 13 I eralized how much I liked boys too.
I more so deal with men now, but yes I still am attracted to women.

I am completely okay with my sexual preference.

 

I'm bi, with a male preference, raised as a nudist from childhood.

1. I always knew (and still do today) when an attraction exists for someone of either sex, because of the pointing. The penis pointing, that is. Up means I'm attracted, down means I'm not. Even as a child I got boners, I just didn't know what to do with them. I must have been about 8 the first time I realized I had a boner because I was attracted to a male friend.

2. At puberty the problem of erections worsened. I remember right about the time I started to get my first pubic hairs that I would get "super ticklish" boners. That's how I thought of them. One day while playing in my room with a male friend I had one of these very sensitive boners and my friend showed me how to jerk it off. It was intense.

3. I am comfortable with my sexuality. It is what it is, bi with a male preference, with a frequent need for long, slow masturbation sessions as well. Our sexuality is just one part of a healthy lifestyle.

 

1. When I was 15

2. When I masturbated, I thought about men. Actually...I thought about my friend's dad for a while :embarrassed:

3. I'm extremely comfortable with my sexuality now. I actually sometimes forget that other people aren't aware that I'm gay and say things that imply that I may be attracted to other guys.

 

1) I was about 12
2) No experience of it yet
3) Not really... being in high school with homophobic mates and my dad makes me pretty uncomfotable. I just CANNOT tell them!!

 

1. from a very early age i would have some naked games with a few friends ( how come that was dead easy but i find it tuff now)
2. nothing really pushed me over the edge I've kind of all ways had it there.
3. no, i haven't told a sole.....

 

1) When did you first get an inkling you might be attracted to the same sex? I think it was when my brother showed me his Eminem CD. There was this one track on it where it had the sounds of a bunch of guys sucking each other's dicks. Yeah... it turned me on so much that I remember stealing his CD and listening to it a couple of times.

2) What particular incident(s) pushed you "over the edge?" How I desperately tried to make myself think that I'm straight, but in the end, I'd always come back to thinking about men over women. I finally realized that I had to come to terms with it when I was like fourteen and a half.

3) How do you feel about your sexuality now? Are you comfortable with it? I still wonder if I'm not just bisexual sometimes, but ultimately, I prefer men. That's all it is. I'm comfortable with liking men, but I'm just a little unsure where I am on the spectrum. A few people know, and I'm comfortable with them knowing. However, I haven't told anyone else.

 

1) When did you first get an inkling you might be attracted to the same sex?
When i realised masturbating over other men, wasn't something straight guys do
2) What particular incident(s) pushed you "over the edge?"
When trying to masturbate over women failed, and when i realised i couldn't force my feelings.
3) How do you feel about your sexuality now? Are you comfortable with it?
I'm happy being gay, I wouldn't change it even if I could. I'm just not comfortable how a few people in my life view gay men, but im looking forward to when I can get out of that environment in about a year or so.

 

1) I have always been attracted to the same sex. Even as a young kid, I can remember "thinking" that other boys around me were cute. Notice I typed think and not spoke verbally, really sad how society molds kids mind even at a young age.

2) I was hanging out with a really good friend of mine and we were drinking a bit and he told me he was gay and I kissed him and we made love on his bed. It was very, very special to me.

3) I am comfortable when I am around people who know I am gay. I still have not come out to any of my family members, and only a select few friends of mine. I will eventually come out to my family just all in due time. My family is hardcore Southern Baptist and woould tell me I was going to hell for liking guys.

 

1) When did you first get an inkling you might be attracted to the same sex?
When I was in grade 7, I found myself not liking boys so much, by grade 9 I knew i was very much attracted to women. But when i was way younger, i knew there was something a lil different about me.

2) What particular incident(s) pushed you "over the edge?"
Movies where girls get naked, definately excited me alot more then when guys get naked.

3) How do you feel about your sexuality now?
I'm comfortable being me, but I am still struggling because I'm not totally out to the world. Alot of people know I'm bisexual (though I am leaning more towards gay, there are select few guys that can turn me on) but my family still doesn't.

 

1) When did you first get an inkling you might be attracted to the same sex?
I always looked at girls on tv or in school or at dance class and thought about how pretty they were and imagined them naked. At the time I thought I just wanted to be like them.

2) What particular incident(s) pushed you "over the edge?" I was babysitting with a friend when I was in 6th grade and we were staying the night there because the parents wouldn't be back til late. We ended up making out and then got naked and then explored a little further. From that day on it continued for about 2 years. At that time I nearly knew I was gay but felt guilty about what I was doing and tried to stop it.

3) How do you feel about your sexuality now? I'm out to everyone I know and i'm ok with it. Sometimes I get jealous of my brother or sister because my parents are so proud of them and interested in their family's and significant others but they just ignore me. I wish I had the same rights and acceptance straight people do.

 

1. It really could go as far back as when i was 3ish and my sister/cousins(female) would dress me up in womens clothing and I really enjoyed it, but for me it was grade 4/5 when me and my best friend would masturbate each other.
2. Recently I had sex with my girlfriend and really didnt like it.
3. It's taking me some time to feel positive that I am gay, but I'm definitly proud.

 

1) When did you first get an inkling you might be attracted to the same sex?
I can't think of my exact age when I first thought I might be gay, but I think it was sometime in middle school. I honestly can't remember why I thought that, I just kind of did.

2) What particular incident(s) pushed you "over the edge?"
I went to a dance at the end of sophomore year, and this girl made out with me. She was doing all this really hot stuff, for example, putting her hands up the back of my shirt and like touching me all over. And I was just like, to myself, "C'mon! If this doesn't arrouse you, you've got to be gay." And so I was. I came out roughly 5 months later.


3) How do you feel about your sexuality now? Are you comfortable with it?
I'm very comfortable with it. Pretty much everyone knows. It does get a little bit awkward sometimes when I'm in a group of people where some people know and some people don't, and the subject of girls comes up. A lot of time, I really just bring it up when it comes up. I'm big into letting people find out for themselves.

 

1)When did you first get an inkling you might be attracted to the same sex?ever since about kindergarden at around the age of 5 , in kindergarden i would play with my friends penis in class and lick it, he would do the same. 2) What particular incident(s) pushed you "over the edge?" all my life trying to bury it, but the urge to look at a man over a woman is just too strong 3) How do you feel about your sexuality now? Are you comfortable with it? i am not comfortable with it, i'm 20 years old and try to hide it every day.

 

1) When did you first get an inkling you might be attracted to the same sex?
I was always attracted to girls more than boys since I can remember, even when we played mums and dads I would never have a husband. When we were older I never fancied the male celebrities in magazines and stuff. I wasn't really sure what 'gay' was though, so I just assumed I would meet the right guy sometime.

2) What particular incident(s) pushed you "over the edge?"
When I was about 12, I thought I might be gay but then I forgot again. Up until I was about 14 I tried to make myself fancy guys, not to hide my sexuality but just to make my life more interesting. Then when I was almost 15 we had a human reproduction lesson. I looked at the diagram for the male reproductive system and that one for the female reproductive system, and it was like a light going on in my brain. Romantic, eh?

3) How do you feel about your sexuality now? Are you comfortable with it?
I'm very comfortable with it - I think I prefer it to being straight, just because I like being different. It was also helped by my mother, who is very liberal and is also very strong minded. If she's convinced she's right, it's impossible to change her mind. Luckily we agree on most things :tongue:

This is a really good thread by the way

 

1) When did you first get an inkling you might be attracted to the same sex?
I was five or six. My brother explained why I shouldn't watch "that faggy chef" on TV: "Because he likes to be with men, like mommy is with daddy." That made sense to me but, even though I had no idea what mommy and daddy did together, I still knew I wanted to be with a faggy chef when I grew up and make a home like mommy and daddy. That's when my secret began.

2) What particular incident(s) pushed you "over the edge?"
There was no "incident". Does it happen like that? One day you wake up and an "incident' seduces you? I tried to be straight, that didn't work, so I knew I could no longer deny my masturbation fantasies.

3) How do you feel about your sexuality now?
Yes, I'm comfortable with it. But I am uncomfortable around bigots. Any kind of bigots, Anti-Gay bigots, racial bigots, the lot.

One of the reasons I'm alive, I believe, is because I can offer tolerance. At a going away party at work years ago, the guy leaving told me: "you are the one." I was the one who showed him that gay men are not horrid. It was something he was grateful for. I'm proud because i could show him tolerance. Other than that, I only wish I were born in a time when there weren't so many damned bigots.