Were you ever surprised when somebody came out as gay?

freshpopcorn

I'm just basing this on people I know. I was never really surprised when somebody came out at gay. I always found it was obvious from about the age of 12.Some people came out when they were in their teens and others came out later but it was never really a surprise. I might have just known a good few people who were stereotypical gay(6 out of 35 people from my primary school class). My older brother came out when he was 29 but I always had a fair idea but he was expecting me to be shocked/surprised at the fact.
Has anybody here had the same experiences?

Glenster

I use this handy guide

Its not been wrong yet!

Pac1Man

Phew!

suicide_circus

Ricky Martin

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Sweetemotion wrote: »

Ring finger is left hand?

Why are they showing right hand?

Your ring finger is the fourth proximal digit of either hand.

koumi

Christiano Ronaldo

AnneFrank

Robbie Keane

Sweetemotion

Scott Ugly Curb wrote: »

Your ring finger is the fourth proximal digit of either hand.

That's my something new learned today

Phew! lost a little of the left ring finger in accident when I was younger

silverharp

Barry Manilow

tomwaterford

Glenster wrote: »

I use this handy guide

Its not been wrong yet!

Phew....I'm not gay

Can go about my day now

Sweetemotion

Rock Hudson.

Pac1Man

silverharp wrote: »

Barry Manilow

I was shocked when he came out as a Thunderbird.

Sleeve of wizard

Julian Clary.

Could. Not. Believe it.

mzungu

Boy George. Didn't see that one coming.

babyboom

I was a bit shocked when my daughter came out as gay at 15, just wasn't expecting it. No problem with it at all just caught me off guard. Oh and George Michael.....

gizmo81

Your fingers may be bigger but . . .

In the largest sample of its kind in the world, homosexual men were found to report significantly larger penises (in both length and circumference) than did heterosexual men.

The Relation Between Sexual Orientation and Penile Size (PDF Download Available). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12889647_The_Relation_Between_Sexual_Orientation_and_Penile_Size [accessed Jun 25, 2017].

Glenster wrote: »

I use this handy guide

Its not been wrong yet!

not yet

My great grandad..

AnneFrank

gizmo81 wrote: »

Your fingers may be bigger but . . .

In the largest sample of its kind in the world, homosexual men were found to report significantly larger penises (in both length and circumference) than did heterosexual men.

The Relation Between Sexual Orientation and Penile Size (PDF Download Available). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12889647_The_Relation_Between_Sexual_Orientation_and_Penile_Size [accessed Jun 25, 2017].

That's a pain in the swiss roll

B.A._Baracus

Charlie Sheen.
Because of the big womaniser that he is. Several media outlets reported that there is a video out there with him giving another man oral.

LushiousLips

A very close family member. I was totally shocked. But now I'm like how the f*ck did I not see it.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

There have been at least two people I know who I was convinced were gay, but was very surprised to find out that they were straight.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Glenster wrote: »

I use this handy guide

Its not been wrong yet!

My ring finger on my right hand is an awful lot smaller than my index finger.I must be super gay.

lazybones32

It's the ones who evrryone thought were gay but ended up marrying fine looking women were the bigger surprises than those who prefer sausage/fish.


*all this chatter about the ring finger - it is the only finger that is directly connected to the heart via unbroken vein. Or so i read.

lazybones32

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

My ring finger on my right hand is an awful lot smaller than my index finger.I must be super gay.

Which type of ring do you stick that finger into? That's the gay litmus test.

BlinkingLights

I've got the macho man fingers and like nothing more than other macho men.
I suspect this may be pseudoscience.

Fanny Wank

Glenster wrote: »

I use this handy guide

Its not been wrong yet!

Right hand says I'm straight, left says I'm gay

Does that mean I'm a closet bisexual?

Dolbert

Tupac Shakur

super_furry

mzungu wrote: »

Boy George. Didn't see that one coming.

Shouldn't have closed your eyes so.

Fanny Wank

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

My ring finger on my right hand is an awful lot smaller than my index finger.I must be super gay.

Tbh I'm suspicious of anyone over the age of 12 who uses the word "super" in such a way

BlinkingLights

The only one that really surprised me was finding out Bart Simpson is a middle aged woman.

Pac1Man

What the hell is with that random sandwich just sitting there in the bottom right corner!?

Wibbs

Turns out my fingers are straight, but my mickey is fabulous.

Burial.

One of my good friends came out a while ago. I was shocked. I actually thought he was having me on for ages. It didn't help when some of the aul dolls were like "did he tell you" which sounded so suss that they were in on it too. But nope, the man likes pipe. It's weird because we were wingmen to each other for ages and cleaned up too. He hid it exceptionally well...now I can see it a little and think "ah yeah" but I'd say that's more him being more comfortable and not having to hold back and hide things. Absolute shame, he could have knocked the slapped arse face off a good load of aul dolls.

xabi

Francis Brennan

BlinkingLights

xabi wrote: »

Francis Brennan

I'm just shocked he's from South County Dublin.
Where did that accent come from ? He should sound like Ross O'Carroll-Kelly or BOD.

tedpan

mzungu wrote:

Boy George. Didn't see that one coming.

That's what he said..

Grady Boyd

I have actually been more surprised about people who turned out not to be gay, for example, I thought that Pascal Donohue and the late Tony Fenton were gay

lazybones32

Fanny **** wrote: »

Right hand says I'm straight, left says I'm gay

Does that mean I'm a closet bisexual?

Your hands don't say anything about you...your username does suggest some closeted tendencies that you overcompensate for.

lazybones32

BlinkingLights wrote: »

I've got the macho man fingers and like nothing more than other macho men.
I suspect this may be pseudoscience.

No, the Journal of Phrenology tested the validity of this model. Mystic Meg confirmed the findings.

Water John

That depends where your hands are.

Gen.Zhukov

All this fingering aside (which from memory is due to a testosterone boost in the womb) the two I was a bit surprised at were 'Pat Carey' and 'Gerry Buttimer'. They weren't exactly vamping it up.

Johngoose

Leo Varadkar

razorblunt

I tend to have good "Gaydar" so I can tell if someone is gay or not. Some get offended (especially in a work capacity, when they do tell you and you respond, "thanks for telling me, I had thought that". Never know why you'd be offended, I just pick up certain things that would indicate it.

The lead actor in Prison Break, now granted he was playing a character so you wouldn't expect any clues.

pajo1981

razorblunt wrote: »

Some get offended (especially in a work capacity, when they do tell you and you respond, "thanks for telling me, I had thought that". Never know why you'd be offended, I just pick up certain things that would indicate it..

They get offended because its a tossery thing to say. Try to be less if a tosser and you'll offend less people.

enda1

pajo1981 wrote: »

They get offended because its a tossery thing to say. Try to be less if a tosser and you'll offend less people.

What a strange point of view

MRnotlob606

I presume people are being sarcastic when they say boy george?

razorblunt

pajo1981 wrote: »

They get offended because its a tossery thing to say. Try to be less if a tosser and you'll offend less people.

How apt.

valoren

Alec Guinness.

He was bi-sexual I believe.

nullzero

tomwaterford wrote: »

Phew....I'm not gay

Can go about my day now

Yeah, go have a gay ol' time.

Ciaran_B

The BaBaDook coming out shocked me.

team_actimel

The actor Luke Evans.