Its not really excessive I don't think. Most people have propositioned or winked at a hell of a lot more than 10 people. So it kind of adds up if you think about it.
Gay Trek Fans, at what age did you know?
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Its not really excessive I don't think. Most people have propositioned or winked at a hell of a lot more than 10 people. So it kind of adds up if you think about it.
Rii
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I'm counting this thread as a homosexual experience.
TheLonelySquire
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2% is commonplace? More like an abberation.
Do me a favour, please; don't speak to me, and don't use my posts as a springboard to antagonise others and push whatever bigoted views you may have. Thank you.
TheLonelySquire
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What, you have a problem when someone calls you on your opinion? I simply responded with statistical data. Feel free not to post something I disagree with and I'll oblige you. It is an open forum after all. Or use the ignore feature.
To answer the OP's question, I think I have always known. There isn't a time in my life that I don't remember finding males infinitely more interesting than females. I also recall very strong memories of having a very big crush on Luke Duke when I was six or seven. As for having a word for it, I was twelve. And accepting it, I was fifteen.
I had clues since i was 5. I didn't know what to call it or what it was since my parents never had "the talk" with me at any age, so i had to deal with all these feelings by myself. I definitely knew in HS when i was attracted to one of my closest friends. At that time, i admitted it to myself. I was around 16 when that happened.
Just to add to the discussion, I worked with a girl who was a lesbian and we became friends. I asked her once when she realized that she was gay. She said that she had known only in about middle school, but her partner had known about her own attraction to women since early childhood.
To my knowledge, I've never had a lesbian make a pass at me. Then again, I've always been pretty fucking oblivious to that sort of thing, so if it happened, odds are high that just like when a man did it, I didn't catch on to it. (In my youth, not my middle-agedness!)
To my knowledge, I've never had a lesbian make a pass at me. Then again, I've always been pretty fucking oblivious to that sort of thing, so if it happened, odds are high that just like when a man did it, I didn't catch on to it. (In my youth, not my middle-agedness!)
Well, I didn't tell him when we were 11 or 12 and I had the crush. This happened when I was about 35, about 18 years since the last time I'd seen him, and I was long since over him.
Yes, telling someone you're attracted to them is generally because you want to have sex with them. I was talking about coming out - I wasn't coming out to people because I wanted to sleep with them, or even because I necessarily found them attractive. I was coming out to them because it was an innate part of my personality that I felt my friends should know. That way, if they saw me holding hands with a guy at some point in the future, they wouldn't freak out over it (and if they were the type to freak out over it, I could break off the friendship before it got to that point - fortunately, that never had to happen).
kitsune
Captain
I think I'm transgendered. If I had the fortune of being born the opposite sex, I can't imagine not being gay. I have disliked my physical gender since about 9th grade. 
I respect openly-gay people for their courage, but I don't think the excessively-flamboyant ones are projecting a positive image to non-gays.
I respect openly-gay people for their courage, but I don't think the excessively-flamboyant ones are projecting a positive image to non-gays.
Let this end right now, both of you. Thank you.
I think I know almost exactly what you mean...
I think I'm transgendered. If I had the fortune of being born the opposite sex, I can't imagine not being gay. I have disliked my physical gender since about 9th grade.
I think we've all had moments like that. Do you still feel this way?
MeanJoePhaser
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I can only imagine the stress a parent must feel when their son or daughter comes out and says they are....a Star Trek fan. 
I can only imagine the stress a parent must feel when their son or daughter comes out and says they are....a Star Trek fan.
There was a lot of crying, denial and guilt. Something about how I should've liked Law and Order. I've tried my best to repress those times.
kitsune
Captain
Unfortunately.I think I'm transgendered. If I had the fortune of being born the opposite sex, I can't imagine not being gay. I have disliked my physical gender since about 9th grade.
I think we've all had moments like that. Do you still feel this way?
I'm always confused and depressed about it.
Unfortunately.
I can give you some advice if you'd like. I'd be happy to, actually. I've gone through many an inner turmoil and many a depressive episode!
I can remember feeling different from my friends, noticing their changes more than the girls in my class, at about age 11. I really didn't accept that I was gay until I was about 14. I fell in love with a guy in the class above me. Never spoke a word to him, but he one day came up to me a said I did a good job in the play we did to celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. I completely froze. But I think I'll always remember him talking to me.
While I do agree with the premise that the excessively-flamboyant homosexuals are not exactly giving off a positive image to the so-called heterosexual majority ... BUT, if we are supposed to reside in a 'free world' (or at the very least as free as it can get), then I don't think that the non-gay population should be making generalizations simply because they meet a few gay people who express themselves differently compared to other homosexuals.
I mean seriously, personality wise we all differ in our behavior regardless of our sexual orientation and whatnot.
You have heterosexuals who express themselves in a very questionable capacity according to what society deems as 'appropriate', yet it's tolerated.
At the very least it's nice to meet people in general who are open-minded and accepting of others regardless of how they express themselves.
It shows there's room for improvement on a global scale in the future if proper measures are taken to educate the general population.
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