How did you know?

[Jackrabbit7]

So for all you gay guys and girls out there, how did you know you were gay. I know its kind of a naive question, but I see so may people on here so young that classify themselves as gay. (which i think is great btw) I had(having) a whole questioning my sexuality crisis thing and now I'm still finding my self, how are you guys so sure?

[JamesSuperBoy]

I think mostly people will identify with a sexuality at some point and be sure about it. I believe that can be fluid and can change not for all but some. It may also be as far as web forums etc people are free and anonymous to express themselves but not irl. If you are unsure then that is okay as well you dont need to rush.

[drhalsey1]

I realized I liked the look of boys and started thinking girls were just not cute or anything as how I knew I was gay. I also agree with JamesSuperBoy, people figure out at all different ages and figure out in different ways, but you do not need to know it in a rush, just be sure you do what you want to do and what you are comfortable doing

[LiamC]

I was always looking at boys, not girls, I knew from like 7 or 8 but only realised what being gay really was at like 10 or 11 or so!

[Straya]

So for all you gay guys and girls out there, how did you know you were gay. I know its kind of a naive question, but I see so may people on here so young that classify themselves as gay. (which i think is great btw) I had(having) a whole questioning my sexuality crisis thing and now I'm still finding my self, how are you guys so sure?

i just knew cause i was attracted to guys as well as girls but im more attracted to guys and it was kinda obvious i was bi when my hormones stsrated raging and i was thinking about doing things with guys more than girls

[RickMason]

As for me, the better question would be how didn't I know. I was stripping guys with my eyes just passing through the street at the age of ten and I thought it was normal, as the time passed and the vocabulary changed I started hearing things like gay, queer, homo, etc., I used the google and I got a name for myself... along with a lifetime of worries and difficulties keeping my mind off the darker thoughts... I guess I just don't like girls at all. As friends only, but I can't imagine sleeping with them, only with boys, so I am a pretty clear case.

[RandAnonPers]

I knew because I found guys hot XD

[WengMan3397]

I think it's important to have good self esteem up front and not let things like sexuality get you down. If you feel good about yourself and can accept yourself you'll be able to present yourself to others and relate to them too.

[SethfromMI]

well I knew I liked girls, but I new I liked guys when I was honest with myself and realized certain guys looked sexy in their underwear. I also knew most guys usually don't care about another guy in their underwear, so yea, I kind of figured out that way

[DoodleSnap]

I was always curious about guys as a kid, but never really even considered being gay. I used to sometimes be angry at/worried about myself being gay because I found some guys really cool and looked up to them a lot when I was about 8, but from then on I didn't even question my sexuality. It was only when I was 13 that I started to realise that I was sexually attracted to guys, and sometime after turning 14 that I realised I not only liked them romantically as well, but also kinda preferred them to girls!

[Seth Green]

Well I was out earlier than most because I live in a very liberal family and grew being told there was nothing wrong with being different.

[thetransylvanianguy]

It came all of a sudden - I realised I was not attracted to girls. It was quite weird back then.

[Wafflenado]

I've known since like 1st grade I guess, I didn't know what to call it back then, but I knew I was different

[cool.dude]

Honestly i have always known i was gay. I was experimenting with guys really young, like 9 years old. One of the memories of my childhood that i have is me and my cousin would play doctor so i would touch his dick all them time and i remember going home and thinking about it so much. But yeah i have really always known

[Luminous]

I realize now I'm not gay (I have no idea what the fuck I am, and I don't really care) but I thought I was for like 2 or 3 years. When I did, I basically just kind of realized I was attracted to other girls and not so much guys.

[JusticeandMercy]

It kind of just dawned on me that I was showing every sign of having a crush on a girl who was in the grade below me. I thought about her a lot, I stared at her, I wanted to talk to her and kiss her and touch her, and I still felt too shy to initiate any interaction with her, as much as I wanted to.
And the fact that I'd had multiple crushes on guys as well just kind of told me that I was bisexual.
Kind of boring.

I actually first started thinking about it when I was in fourth grade and I kept staring at the diagrams in health class, but I thought people could only be attracted to one gender (and I especially had no clue what being transgender was!) so I just told myself it was just a weird curiosity to know what the body looked like.

And then in seventh grade I learned about bisexuality and then shortly after that the thing in the first paragraph happened. (Well, a few months after.)

[Faolan]

Looking back it seems really obvious, but I really didn't consciously consider that I might have been gay until sophomore year of high school. I realized that though I had crushes on both guys and girls, the crushes on guys were much stronger and more common. The crushes on girls stemmed only from friendships while those on guys were more random.

[JVTeen]

gosh im having identity crisis rn