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Topic: Your 'Root'
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So, yes I am quoting from But I'm A Cheerleader', but I don't mean quite the same thing. In the movie they asked 'what turned you gay'? What I want to know is your first experience that you can remember that you had that either at the time made you realise you were gay (bi, pan, trans, etc.), or looking back on it, you're like, yup, I was gay (etc.) back then too.
I know not everyone has one, or one that they can remember, but I thought it would be good (or funny?) to share them.
I remember, when I was young, 5-8 ish, my mom caught me looking up pictures of naked women on the internet.  I was kind of pervy lesbian back then, too, I guess.
I Love You... All of You
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Post: #661185  , Thu 28 Jun 12, 9:38AM |
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:: Twiggey
:: QA5 Having the neighbours round | |
I had a crush on this really cute guy in my grade when I was 12 in grade six I mean I'd had crushes before that on guys but I'd thought that was the norm like everyone else did too cause being gay is normal so yeah
To live is to do what makes you happy not others. If what you love is different then stand against the tide of "normality" never stop fighting for happiness.
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Post: #661192 , Thu 28 Jun 12, 9:56AM |
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:: Astronaut
:: QA5 Having the neighbours round | |
When I fell in love with my best friend. I was something like 12/13. But when I was a child I once thought that women were prettier than men. LOL
Mr. Todd: "What's the sound of the world out there?"
Mrs. Lovett: "What Mr. Todd, what Mr. Todd, what is that sound?"
Mr. Todd: "Those chrunching noises pervading the air!"
Mrs. Lovett: "Yes mr. Todd, yes mr. Todd, yes all around!"
Mr. Todd: "It's man devouring man, my dear, and who are we to deny it in here?
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Post: #661197 , Thu 28 Jun 12, 10:07AM |
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:: Volke
:: QA2 Settling in | |
mine is a mixture of a few things. for some reason i used to always dream of guys even though i was like 4 and i didn't really understand why. another was this boy who was three years older than i was. we had the same babysitter (this was from ages 4-10) so we hung out everyday for a couple of years. one night we had a sleepover (i believe i was 9) and i really wanted to kiss him but he was sleeping and i thought it'd be weird if he woke up so i chickened out. then i didn't even know gay was a thing until i was 12.
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Post: #661212 , Thu 28 Jun 12, 1:29PM |
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I always thought girls were prettier than boys...
But the first time I was like, "Oh hey! Maybe I like girls!" was in seventh or eighth grade when I had the biggest crush in the world on this girl I went to school with.
The caged bird stands on a grave of dreams
His shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
His wings are clipped and his feet are tied
So he opens his throat to sing.
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill
Of things unknown, but longed for still
And his tune is heard on a distant hill
For the caged bird
Sings of freedom.
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Post: #661718 , Sun 1 Jul 12, 12:28AM |
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:: Lia47
:: QA9 Grand Elder | |
Well, I kind of fell in love with a guy over the summer of 7th grade, but it ended with me running away from him. Somehow, I didn't really realize I liked guys until a few weeks later on a boat ride. I was thinking about it, and suddenly it clicked in brain.
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Post: #661722 , Sun 1 Jul 12, 12:36AM |
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My root: /
Awesome points to all the nerds who got that joke.
I really don't think there was a point. The further I look back, the gayer it gets. Just much less sexual in nature... Well, more of a bell curve as far as the sexual bit.
Even as far back as kindergarten, the guy I called my best friend and the girl I called my first crush were really labeled wrong. It is no wonder I always preferred my friend.
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Edit: atomuskus, Sun 1 Jul 12, 6:46AM
Post: #661805 , Sun 1 Jul 12, 6:22AM |
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My friends discovered they were lesbian, so I started questioning and realized PFFT~ I like girls 
Homophobia is gay
LOKI'D!!!!!!
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Post: #661812 , Sun 1 Jul 12, 6:29AM |
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I remember back in kindergarten there was this boy that I thought was SOOOOO cute, but I didn't know what that meant obviously and didn't actually realize I was gay until 5th grade (maybe 4th). Then I accepted it in 6th and went into denial in 8th and went out with a girl because I convinced myself that I was bi xD Now when I started grade 10 I started coming out gay and going into grade 11 I no longer care who knows, if they don't like it they can eff off 
That was a lot more elaborate than it needed to be, huh? xD Oops.
You laugh at me because I'm different. I laugh at you because you're all the same.
"Rub that glitter and grease around"
~Lady Gaga
"I'm fierce and I'm feeling mighty. I'm a golden girl, I'm an aphrodite, alright!"
~Kylie Minogue
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Edit: Embraceurself, Sun 1 Jul 12, 6:35AM
Post: #661813 , Sun 1 Jul 12, 6:34AM |
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I thought girls were supposed to like girls and boys with boys. I didn't think about it much when I would blush when thinking about how pretty a girl was. Then around six grade I learned the basics of sexuality and it all just kind of kicked it place. My first love wasn't until eighth grade, so I can't share the same experience as some of ya'll
Put your skirt back on, Alfred!
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Edit: wittyDragoon, Sun 1 Jul 12, 6:36AM
Post: #661814 , Sun 1 Jul 12, 6:35AM |
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I should've realised it when I was seven or eight. I had just found out about being transgender, and my first thought was "problem solved. Now I can be a boy like I've always wanted and I can like girls without being gay." When I was in 8th grade I fell head-over-heals in love with a girl from school and decided I was bi. Then, after learning more about sexuality during my 10th grade year, I found out that I'm panromantic homosexual. It's been a long journey lol.
This life chose me, I'm not lost in sin.
- Make It Stop
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Post: #662017 , Mon 2 Jul 12, 1:28AM |
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:: TheWiz808
:: QA4 A spot of tea please, Alfred! | |
Had a really bland self realization moment just remembered since I was a very young boy thinking guys were sexy and never thought much of girls then when I hit my pre-teen years the urges got stronger and I kept checking if I felt anything for women but I was just blown away by male sexiness. Haha
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Post: #662019 , Mon 2 Jul 12, 1:32AM |
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I was at the doctors with my mom and we were in the waiting room looking through magazines and in the magazine I was looking through was a half-naked picture of Brittany Spears and I couldn't stop staring. I wanted to look at it all day hah, yeah.
I was probably 6
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Edit: Mariaa, Mon 2 Jul 12, 4:37AM
Post: #662118 , Mon 2 Jul 12, 4:36AM |
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When I was like, 7, I listened to David Bowie and my dad explained him being bisexual. I remember thinking, after he explained it, "I could do that!" and just sorta had a vague idea.. about puberty I was sure and just recently narrowed it down to pansexuality
"You're like the Narnia lion of pickle land." ~ Saied <3
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Post: #662121 , Mon 2 Jul 12, 4:44AM |
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from the very begining
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Post: #662128 , Mon 2 Jul 12, 5:19AM |
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I don't really have one moment in particular that made me realize I was gay. More like I was laying in bed, looking back on a bunch of moments and I was like "Okay, yea, that's it. There is no way I'm straight." Although I remember when I first really started questioning, back in grade 8. I always thought girls were pretty, but people always told me it was normal to think that and that it didn't make me gay or anything. I didn't really realize that I was attracted to girls more than the average straight girl until I realized I was the probably the only one going through the wallpaper store on her phone and looking at the pictures of girls in bikinis.
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Post: #662148 , Mon 2 Jul 12, 7:32AM |
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My first moment... now that I look back on it. I think the first way I started subconsciously expressing my sexuality was through poetry. I'd write all of my romantic poems as if addressing a woman. And then, when I noticed it, I tried to replace all of the times I used 'beautiful' with 'handsome' and try to make it as though I were addressing a man.
But in the back of my mind, I must have been thinking of a woman. This was in sixth grade. During that year, in a sex-ed class, we were taught to be abstinent and pursue someone of the opposite sex, but they never really said why.
Fast forward to seventh grade, I had my first (conscious) crush on a girl. I remember how pretty I thought she was.
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Post: #662164 , Mon 2 Jul 12, 8:30AM |
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The earliest thing I can remember was when I was seven or eight and I said to my mom that I thought it was so unfair that boys got to pick a beautiful girl and girls had to be with a boy. It never occurred to me that that was a gay thing to say or that I didn't necessarily have to be with a boy. It find it kind of funny now and I wonder if my mom remembers it and what she made of that statement.
Don't Forget to Be Awesome.
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Edit: lj7Idina, Mon 2 Jul 12, 9:21AM
Post: #662169 , Mon 2 Jul 12, 9:18AM |
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I was always interested in guys. I only accepted it recently, but I would always fantasize about boys in my class
Believe in the you that believes in you.
No, I don't know what that means.
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Post: #662173 , Mon 2 Jul 12, 9:39AM |
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:: Dood
:: QA6 Livin' it up! | |
Well I remember when I was really young I'd always try to catch glimpses of other naked guys in like changing rooms at water parks or community pools. I'd also try to get a glimpse of other boys's junk in the school bathrooms, and this was back when I was in elementary so I was wasn't really thinking about what I was doing. When I reached 3rd grade I actually had my first "gay" experience with another guy, who happened to be my best friend at the time, that involved a bit of touching, among other things, and that sort of became the starting point for my sudden realization that I was gay. After that I had a few more rather "gay" experiences with other guys, all occurring within elementary school, and that sort of led up to the sudden realization somewhere around 6th-7th grade. I mean in elementary school I never learned of what it was to be gay, especially since I went to a private school, so I didn't actually realize that that's what I was until about 6th or 7th grade, but yea... That's basically all of my "roots" per-say.... =\
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Post: #662183 , Mon 2 Jul 12, 11:25AM |
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