When did you realize you're gay?

[frontlemon]

5-6 years when one of my father's colleague took me to a ride in his motorbike and asked me to hold him tight so that I would not fall off…

[JACK777]

One of my classmates in school and I would kiss in the boys bathroom in secret. We were about 12.

[yababylol]

@nilserrocha:

In my teenage, around my 16.
In this time, I thought was bi, but my eyes was keeping my attention in the every muscle of my friends…

Well, I identify as "bi," and I would've been staring at muscles as well. It's a little like deciding you only like latina women because you're hanging around one and can't stop looking at her breasts, that logic.  

… my story, I was 11. I started masturbating very early, I found out how to do it by humping the bed, and once my father gave me the "sex talk," I realized that what I'd already been doing for several years was simulating the sensation of having sex. The hysteria some people seem to feel at the idea of educating your kids about sex as it really exists always seems silly to me, because I figured so much out about it with really no help before seventh grade.

I used to be subscribed to this Disney magazine published for young adults, and they were doing a piece on Free Willy (ironically named for the impact that movie had on my young life). I realized I wanted to masturbate when looking at pictures of that lead in that role while he was in his swimwear, I think he was like 13 at the time, but I was definitely 11.

So, I whip it out and go for it, and when I finished, I realized – wait, this is that "gay" thing I keep hearing about ... I'd done the same thing many times before because I'd see a picture or a movie, over women and men, but this was the first time I realized what it actually meant about me.

I suffered no huge identity crisis or anything (though I did keep that side of myself a complete secret for at least 7 more years), I'm not sure why. I just shrugged my shoulders and went with it. I had many crushes in the years to follow, celebrities or friends, haha … I would even sneak and smuggle out my sisters' Tiger Beat magazines to stare at the pinups, or when I could work up the courage, I'd walk to the store myself and buy one (once I'd turned 13). I had a particularly strong crush on Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who's exactly the same age as me, after I saw him in that movie with Chevy Chase. He was all over those magazines.

My father found those magazines once, along with a sears catalogue for women's underwear, underneath my bed. I still remember the perplexed look on his face. It wasn't computing for him.   He never talked to me about it.

[gaypraha2]

I never realize I was gay coz I'm bi.. but I guess my first year of college ( I went into college at 17), when I saw Dicaprio on different movies, I had strange feelings towards him..I waited my second college year (18) to try it with a dude (an horrible ugly fat guy but I had to try soo…) and tell my old high school friends I was bi. their reaction was funny, like one of them peeing on the fire then realizing I was there and so quickly hiding his dick  :cheesy2: being bi meant I had no sexual attraction at all towards any of my school friends, because none was a young dicaprio copy and only that kind of dude was turning me on ( still is mostly).that probably explains why I never thought about guys before that, as absolutely none looked "hot" to me while so many girls were . Now if a nice blond twink was in my class when I was 15 I'd probably have think about it earlier.

thinking about what yayababylol said, I also remember that in the "newspaper of mickey" or whatever you translated it, there was a paper about Zach from "saved by the bell", I now remember I also had strange feelings towards this blond little dude, but nothing sexual, more like "I'd like to look like him" thing.

[nature1490]

I have never been gay and never will be.  I knew I liked girls when they started to catch my eye around 14 - 15.  I also knew I liked boys when I was really young around 6 or 7.  My mother could tell it and could tell I was bi as well when I started high school.  So I never had a coming out experience due to that.

[Ellis]

I think that by the time I was in first grade, maybe 6 or 7 years old…

I definitely knew that I liked “playing doctor” with both, boys as well as girls. >:D

[jdo143]

I believe when I was 13 or 14?

[daydrm]

At 12, but I accepted it later.

[upNXT]

looking at comic books when i was young

[humandoormat]

the moment i saw a penis

[pzhang519]

maybe 20, I guess, before that I just love reading M/M romance book or comics.

[boyjohn]

I would say around 14, but I don't think I fully understood or came to admission to it until 15-16 yrs old.

[obras62]

I think I always new. I felt different from other people.
It was when I was 14 and on vacation in Mexico that I had sex with an older woman one night and an older guy the next.

This was before the Internet so I didn't know it was wrong but I realized that I prefer the guy over the woman

[motri]

i dont remember the age, but it involved batman and robin, some pillows and a handheld vibrating back massager.

[poltergeist]

When I was at high school. I felt attached to one of my seniors. I thought it was just like, and admiration developed by close friendship, but I felt something more. He was straight, of course, but that didn't change the fact that I actually can be interested, romantically and sexually in guys…

[MulderYuffie]

Since as far back as I can remember honestly.