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What age did you realise that you were gay?

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    #32
    Gorgossium
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭Gorgossium


    At 14 I thought I was bisexual and then last year at the age of 20 I realised that what I am is called Pansexual. My mother didn't realise she was gay until she was 30 years old and had 2 kids xD


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    #33
    cartell_best
    Closed Accounts Posts: 579 ✭✭✭cartell_best


    I was in Primary school, 6th class about to go to secondary school. Things were a lot different then than now. It was late 1983/early 1984 when something happened that at the time, being the age I was, didn't seem overly strange in any but natural and somewhat different from a lot of the lads I was in school with. I couldn't understand it but I new something was different. We had what we called a "hall" where we did PE and such. It wasn't a hall in the modern sense of the word. I was only a few months away from making my confirmation and to be honest, I didn't even know Gay existed, or had an understanding of what "Gay" was.

    I sat across that hall and saw a lad, from fifth class and I just had new feelings/emotions. I knew then that something was different from me. If I knew about being Gay or that such a feeling was possible, as it is in the world of today, who knows. I'm proud to be able to remember when I first noticed I was that little wee bit different.


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    #34
    PeteK*
    Registered Users Posts: 995 ✭✭✭PeteK*


    I'd say early teens, then at about sixteen I was trying to accept it.. then came out at 19. :O


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    #35
    balderdash23
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭balderdash23


    I'm 23 and a closet bi (with a preference for lads), dunno should I be calling myself gay or bi. Bi makes me feel better I suppose. It started for me when I was 15 and 16. As far back as trying to get a quick shot of my friends cocks through their jocks as we were changing for GAA training. I still do it! Used to get me down, but now I just get on with it cos I've accepted it.


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    #36
    Killer_banana
    Registered Users Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭Killer_banana


    balderdash23 wrote: »
    I'm 23 and a closet bi (with a preference for lads), dunno should I be calling myself gay or bi. Bi makes me feel better I suppose. It started for me when I was 15 and 16. As far back as trying to get a quick shot of my friends cocks through their jocks as we were changing for GAA training. I still do it! Used to get me down, but now I just get on with it cos I've accepted it.

    We define labels, labels don't define us. Basically, call yourself whatever you want. I prefer not to use a label at all when I can.


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    #37
    dahylandert
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭dahylandert


    My story was that i had a few fantasies about guys when i was 15/16, mostly one guy in particular but didnt think much of it as i was interested in girls more so just continued down that route and didnt think about guys again until about 22 when i started to notice guys alot more.
    I was in a relationship at this point and didnt do anything more and accepted i was attracted to guys as well as girls.
    i married that girl when i was 28 and was happy to settle down with her as i had never done anything with guys and was more attracted to her than any guy.Over the last year or two i still thought about guys as i had since i was 22 but over the last 6 months, the feeling has got an awful lot stronger and i believe now that i am possibly gay.


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    #38
    Steve!
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭Steve!


    I think I knew when I was about 14/15 but I didn't actually accept it myself until I was 17. Flashforward to when I was 19 and just after starting college and I came out to everyone in the space of a week.

    So, I think there's stages in the realisation.


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    #39
    pauliebdub
    Registered Users Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭pauliebdub


    I was about ten when I started feeling attracted to other boys and men, i remember it vividly but found it very alarming at the time and was very unhappy with it throughout my teenage years. I guess i didn't want to be different from my peers. I think i was about 27 before i fully accepted it.


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