When did it occur to you that you might be "different?"?

Question

When did you feel that first attraction towards the same sex?

Answer 1

I was about 7 or 8, acted on it when I was 12, told my parents at the same time. They were freaked for about a week, then my other two brothers (we're triplets) dropped the same bomb, after that, they were cool.....it's not like they had much choice at that point.

Now my mother gets on my case to get married now that it's legal, she doesn't like me living in sin (I don't a boyfriend right now but she still pushes)........gay she can live with, unmarried?.........well some things don't change.

Answer 2

I was about 12

Answer 3

I must have been around 9 or so when I started getting obsessed with other boys in quasi-sexual ways. Never really acknowledged that I was "different" in that way, since my parents always considered me to be a freak of some kind, whose behavior was always unexplainable. I had a playmate who would masturbate me a little sometimes, and I liked that, of course, but never had a desire to do it to anyone else until I was in puberty and kept trying to seduce my best friend. I can say the words here that I'm gay and always was, but really inside it's like it's just part of my being "different" all over, not just sexually.

Answer 4

2 separate questions so I will answer them both:

Question 1 : I have not yet felt "different" or do I ever expect to feel like that.

Question 2 : I felt the attraction to the same sex first when I was in college. Although I have some recollections from when I was in high school which were 'straight', in hindsight they definitely had some gay overtones.

Answer 5

I was very young, and discovering masterbation. Suddenly, the image of an Indian snake charmer appeared in my mind, like a photograph. (I had seen the snake charmer on tv, when I was five.)This really arroused me. A little while later the image of the bearded and turbaned holy man appeared (wearing what looked like a athletic supporter. But he had a large bulge.). For years, I tried to like girls. Then when I was a teenager, I saw a full-frontal nude picture of a Nagababa (a sect of Hindu holy men). I was so arroused, that I never worried about not liking women, ever again.

Answer 6

I felt attraction at around 7, but didn't know exactly what it was until I hit puberty and all those hormones started raging. I didn't act on it until 15. Then I got lots of crap from my friends and pretended to be str8 until I left for college. I got my first girlfriend at 18 and haven't been anything but gay since!

Answer 7

From a very early age people told me i looked and acted different from the rest of the boys,back then i didn't know what it all meant at the age of about 16 i realised what it may be.I'm still finding it hard to accept.I remember asking God to heal me, i thought it was a sickness or some thing,to be honest i still don't know what to make of it.

Answer 8

Knew I liked the male members of my family very young maybe 10 or so. Knew for sure at about 13 after puberty had visited and some experimentation ahd occurred.

Answer 9

When I realized in a house full of 6 men that I didn't like any of my brothers that way but was glued to the TV any time a gladiator film came on, and subscribed to weightlifting magazines because I considered them porn.

Answer 10

Age 6.
Stareing at the mens water polo team for Brown U.