When you first realize you were gay?

I loved Today’s Special.

In grade 6, I stared at a track team member's legs in the desk next to me at class. Hairy blondish-brown legs. I was transformed!

Grade 4: I was mad about the cutest and toughest boy, Terry. 45 years later, I like all kinds of guys, but if I had to pick only one type as a favorite, it would be a grown up version of bad boy Terry.

Me, too, OP! I wanted to see Jeff’s junk.

When I developed a crush on the knight from my Fisher Price Castle playset. He looked so stoic and inscrutable. And military guys are hot, let's face it.

I would imagine that I was the prince who had been kidnapped and he would have to come rescue me.

Thank god that dynamic didn't come into play in my adult romantic entanglements.

^That's adorable!

Him.

r7 who is he?

I went to swim class at the Newark YMCA when I was 12. We changed with the swim teachers. I saw nude adult men and I knew I what I was and what I wanted.

R8 that’s bubba, mary

I went to a camp in upstate New York. had one hot counselor who wore snug short shorts and had a tom of Finland mustache. Dreamt of fucking his butt and had my first wet underpants-in-the-morning experience.

Carlos from the Flying Nun.

I spent a saturday at my uncle’s girlfriends place , they were watching an old Movie “roadhouse” . They told me to cover my eyes during the steamy love scenes but I would peek through my fingers. I was so fucking jealous of the girl when Patrick Swayze picked her up and banged her.

I've know nothing else than my attraction to the same sex. From the days of Tarzan, Tonto, and Sky King's nephew Clipper forward. I may not have had a word for it when I was a young boy, but I knew what I liked. I've know guys who claim to have not known they were gay until later in life. How can this be?

If you grew up in a very sheltered environment with little to no practical sex education where the words gay and homosexuality were never used, like me, you may have felt an attraction of sorts to men but you had nothing to conceptualize it. Only later when exposed to more do you learn what it really means.

When I was a little boy people thought I looked like a girl. Of course, because of this, whenever I was a the local pool I would just go into the women's locker to pee as it was closer to the pool. I would see all those tits and 80s bushes and not think a thing about it.

However, when I would go to change in the MEN'S locker room I became VERY aware of all the grown men and their heavy looking dicks and balls and dense, dark pubic hair.

I can still see the image of all the guys in the community shower stripping off their trunks,soaping up their cocks and seeing the water stream through chest and pubic hair, down the shaft of their penises before running off the tip. It always looked like they were peeing to me.(and some probably WERE).

I can't say I knew I was gay at 6yo but I did know seeing the men made me feel "funny" yet I felt NOTHING when I saw the women.

R16 That was one of my experiences as well. The men's locker room part anyway.

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