When did you know?

[Snazzler]

When did everyone know they were bi/gay/etc? Did you just... know? Or was it more of a forcing yourself to accept?

[SethfromMI]

I guess I always kind of knew when I was bi but when I was 12 and we started changing for pe everyday, I knew it was not normal to find the other guys in their underwear (well some of them haha) attractive and that is when I kind of admitted to myself. my first time having sex with a guy was when I was 14. however, I am attracted to girls (been with my gf for over 15 months now) and never questioned that aspect either. so yea

[West Coast Sheriff]

Can I cis hetero person answer this? Haha

I've always known that I liked girls. Especially when I started middle school I began to have crushes. Through my journey of high school, I've liked girls. So, for me, it's always been clear.

I can relate this to a gay/or bi person because I know the importance of following your heart. Accept whatever you feel.

[UNKNOWN8198]

I've basically always known, although I think I realised that I didn't like girls before I realised that I did like guys. They were pretty close though.

[Hudor]

I think I've always known i found guys attractive. It was only three or four years ago though, that i realized i wasn't attracted to girls sexually.

[DoodleSnap]

It has been almost three years since I started to question my sexuality. I had always had a sort of attraction to guys from a young age, almost as if I was 'looking-up to them'. I'd love to draw guys with defined abs, and just because I assumed that I was hetero, I thought that this stuff was all something different from being bisexual or gay. But when I started to find myself getting sexually aroused by other guys, that was when I started to really question what my sexuality was. A year and a bit later, I realised that I was bisexual, with a preference for boys.

It's a big journey for everyone, and I feel lucky that I had good educational resources to make my decision, not just biased and uneducated influences.

[Bluebyrd]

Ever since I've had feelings for people, they've always been for boys - I've never felt anything towards girls. So since I was like 7, I've known that I was gay.

[Abhorrence]

Difficult question. All throughout my childhood I dated girls, obviously I wasn't sexually attracted to anything then because it was before puberty. When I hit 12, I was still into girls and I had a girlfriend and it was getting to the point where I wanted to try new things but obviously was too young. This still carried on but when I was 14, I started realising that I liked guys too. Eventually it's grown to the point where, sexually, girls do not interest me at all. I probably didn't realise this until I was nearly 16.

[ska8er]

Again it comes down to feelings during
puberty. I think almost anyone has feelings at
one time or another for someone of their own sex.
I was admiring guys at 13 cause I was horny all
the time-damn I still am-anyway im not saying I
don't have gay feelings but whose to say that as
u get older it will change. I consider myself straight
but y not like guys too-so im curious.

[Sports Boy]

I'm just slightly different in that I knew in grade school that I was attracted to guys and just began to assume that I was gay. But when I became a freshman in high school, I realized that I was attracted to girls a lot. That's when I got my first girlfriend and loved doing sexual stuff with her. So I was happy when I figured out I was bi.

[Zachary G]

IDK, I think I have always known I have liked boys. As far back as I can remember, 2nd grade, I was kind of linked to my then best friend who I always wanted to be around and with. I was always jealous whenever he was with anyone else. I didnt come out until I was 10 and it was then that I was sure.

[Sublime Demonz]

I always knew I was different from my friends who were girls, y'know? They always talked about boys and I never really wanted anything to do with them beyond friendships. It just took me a long time to accept it, because I was brought up in a family that didn't support LGBT people due to their religion. I was afraid of being shunned by them, and so I forced myself into going out with guys to try and change who I was. Eventually I ended up just coming out to them because I couldn't ignore that I only liked girls anymore, being almost 17 now.

[Uniquemind]

Since before I could speak, but the feeling was just a slight tug back then, a non-concern compared to where my cuddles and meals were coming from, or wanting to play.

[Bull]

I don't like labels. I am a sexual being who does not discriminate between genders. I grew up playing sports and was comfortable being naked around my mates. I never saw any of them as potential sexual partners. I was never "aroused" by their nakedness. The summer after my junior year in HS a friend made a move on me and I did not resist his attention and ended up having an enjoyable summer of making out with a guy. He went back to his college and I went back to dating girls and even entered into a committed relationship with a girl a bit older than me. We enjoyed a good sexual relationship but broke up when we went separate ways after graduation. I am now in a committed relationship with a guy. So for me I was 17 when I decided that gender was not all that important when it came to building a sexual relationship. The person is what is important, not their gender.

[pjones]

i knew when i began a romantic sexual relationship with my best friend, and realized i was still romantically and sexually interested in girls too. i was 13 almost 14 at the time. still feel that way at 16

[kanyewest]

For as long as I can remember I've liked boys and girls, but I still used to think I was straight. It was like two years ago I started calling myself bisexual (in my head because I've only told one person). I used to say I was straight, even in my head because I was in a kind of denial, plus everyone else was straight and I never thought of myself as different, but then as I got older and even now I feel really bad about myself when I have to say I'm straight, because I'm not ashamed of it but I don't want to be judged for it. I know my family wouldn't care but my friends would. It was only last week I realized I can be romantically attracted to both and idk how to feel about it

[Vermilion]

That I don't know it's hard to say. I called myself straight to last year. Even in my head I would but it felt like I was lieing to myself and I hated it.

[Babs]

I sort of knew on and off from when I was 13 for a few years until I knew for sure.

[Abyssal Echo]

I've always known that I was different. At 8 my father had "the talk" with me that's when it came out that I liked boys by 10 my friends were starting to get interested in girls I wasn't interested at all. I came out as gay when I was 13.

[Moriya]

Short summary: I thought I strictly liked guys, then later on I found myself having an interest in both guys and girls, so I identified as bi. Then I switched it to pansexuality (to this day I still don't fully understand why, I was technically still bi) and now I have zero desire to be in love so I'm ace now.

[Semi_IronMan]

I just remember always liking guys and being turned on by them, I think I was 11 or something