What REALLY Caused Your Homosexuality?

It was the Sears and Roebuck 1972 Spring Catalog, men's undershirts, page 47.

My neighbor’s matinee idol good looks & hairy chest. Which is odd because as an adult I get turned on my smooth guys, & am even hairier than he was.

Too many bags of Screaming Yellow Zonkers.

An overprotective mother and a distant father. Conversion therapy, here I come!

Ditto R4, my distant mother and overprotective mother, then too much fashion TV, not hanging out in the patio with the men instead of in the kitchen with the women, my predilection for Susan Heyward-type melodramas over sports TV, feeling safer with the girls who felt safer with me, and masturbating with Danny who had a thick cock.

Luck of the draw!

Ron Ely in a loincloth playing Tarzan on TV. He turned many boys into homos.

If we forced all men and teenaged boys to wear burqas, homosexuality would disappear.

Ponch and Jon

Dirty pussy

Reruns of the Golden Girls

Unwanted molestation

Caftans and earrings

Gay genetics caused by the Paul Lynne mutation

Vivian Vance!

I thought his name was Paul Lynde, R9.

R10- Sweetie, that’s what they call it a GAY mutation. He went from Lynde to “Haaaaaaay Lynne” overnight.

So many gay men had over bearing mothers and distant fathers.

Vivian vance abused me

My Dad would sing all the parts of the musical "Gypsy" at home. I really didn't have a chance.

Biology

Marky mark’s Calvin Klein ads.

I saw big fat ugly naked women on HBO’s Real Sex. Scarred me for life.

[quote] So many gay men had over bearing mothers and distant fathers.

Could it be they were that way BECAUSE they knew or "sensed" you were gay. An over protective mother is often seen as over bearing. A father uncomfortable with what he doesn't understand might distance himself from that.

An otaku girl I knew introduced me to yaoi. I went from hard straight to completely gay in the matter of..::days. Not as a choice, it was just so hot to a 12-year old boy in the late 2000s, so much more exciting than any Hetero stuff my parents told me about or whatever straight porn I saw at the time.

The dear lord sweet baby jesus.

All the church ladies said how beautiful I was in my Easter dress. I decided to be a pretty, proper lady myself, not gay.

Daddy tried to get me to play different field positions in little league baseball, but my mom’s Chanel slingback pumps were the glove that fit.

Fat fraus kept trying to touch my wiener.

Do you think I would waste all this on women?

R7 fell down and hit her head on the ground again...

My mom isn't overprotective or overbearing but my late dad was definitely very distant and emotionally cold. Funnily enough I am more like my dad in my adulthood. Somewhat distant, a bit cold and preferring my own company to that of others, although I am more in touch with my emotions than he was.

most seem to think I'm colourful eurotrash rather than gay.

I suppose we can blame the sitters, pbs, the local bookstore, my harp teacher and alan turing.

The Rockettes Christmas Spectacular... There was no coming back from that

Probably radiation from Chernobyl, that nuclear cloud definitely caused a lot of gays to be born in the 90s in Europe.

“What REALLY Caused Your Homosexuality?”

Living long enough and having a mind which is able to recognize.

[quote]R7 fell down and hit her head on the ground again...

I think you did, R25, if you can't tell every sentence in my post is meant as a joke.

My addiction to Organdy and Crinoline.

I believe my high-anxiety mother secreted extra amounts of whatever hormone into her uterus during pregnancy, resulting in the wiring of my brain being different from most other people of my sex.

I think it's a painless form of evolution.

Unappealing alternatives.

The lifeguards I found so interesting on summer vacations, when I was a kid. While other boys gravitated towards the female lifeguards, I liked the guys. They were aged 18-30. They wore short trunks, and some wore speedos. I remember being fascinated with their hairy chests. I still find the smell of Coppertone arousing. I can remember, too, a day camp counselor named Casey. Damn, he was cute. My parents had him babysit my younger brother and me.

My parents were both loving and affectionate. I really think genetics and birth order played a part in making me gay. I'm one of four sons. I'm the third. My oldest brother and I are both gay. My Dad had a gay first cousin. The son of one of my first cousins on my Dad's side is gay.

I caught mine from a toilet seat.

I blame Elsa Klench!

My mother was Barbra Streisand.

Oral, anal, foot sucking, piss drinking

[quote] I believe my high-anxiety mother secreted extra amounts of whatever hormone into her uterus during pregnancy, resulting in the wiring of my brain being different from most other people of my sex.

That's an interesting hypothesis. Recent studies show that woman who experience high stress before and during pregnancy tend to have more girls. Mothers with lss stress produce more boys. Maybe she didn't get the right level of stress to make it complete. You're still male though.

Judy Garland caused me to be gay. And then, just when I thought I could escape, along comes Liza Minnelli.

There was no cure. From that point on, I just had to live with it.

Barbra Streisand singing "I'm The Greatest Star" in Funny Girl. Then she sang "So Long, Dearie" in Hello Dolly. I learned all the words including the heaving breathing retorts. And then, what do you know...GAY!

Um no, R40. Girls are XX and boys are XY. Fathers produce sperm that is either X or Y. The abundance of Y sperm in the father determines the sex of the child, not the hormonal environment of the pregnant mother.

My mother was attacked by an elephant during pregnancy.

For me, it was Barbra singing "Cry Me a River."

I sang it better than she did!

Being taken by my mother to see a Carmen Miranda film festival when I was five. I wanted the fruity hat and there was no going back.

I came out of a penis! And wanted to get out of that vagina! What did you expect?

The power of the cock?

That devil from Hell known as Tinky Winky.

Mary Wickes was my nurse as a baby.

A young, rich, doctor slapped my ass when I was born. I was smitten.

We converted you all.

I'm SO glad I avoided that Straight Agenda.

Lance Cumson

My attraction to other boys started before 1st grade. There was a cute blue-eyed tow-headed boy my age in the apartment complex we lived in. We played Army and built forts out of cardboard boxes. Anyone observing me would have seen my face light up when he was around. A game of I'll show you mine if you show me yours was pretty damn exciting to us both.

mean critical withdrawing father & sweet attentive supportive mom + juvenile male crushes who were also my bullies/juvenile female crushes who were kind and decent to me and also gorgeous angel girls + homosocial formative learning environment & competence hierarchy + lifelong avoidant maladaptive tendencies to cope with hypersensitivity in a cruel misogynistic world = 90% lesbian

Getting fingered while getting a blow job from my best friend when I was 12! Man, he had mad skills! I have no idea where he learned that.

It's hilarious that conservatives still think there is such a thing as gay conversion. I didn't know there was a sexual light switch that could simply be flipped. ;) No wonder it's banned as garbage.

I don't know. I don't care. It's been too much fun to question it.

If there is such a thing as gay conversion, we need to get busy STAT. Quick! Someone squeeze The Rock into a pair of tap shoes!

"What REALLY Caused Your Homosexuality?"

This guy...

[quote] So many gay men had over bearing mothers and distant fathers.

R12 is speaking from the 1950s or before.

Mel Gibson had a hellish father and he turned out straight as an arrow. A weirdly sexist, homophobic, arrow.

1979 I think it was when the hot, Greek construction worker I was chatting with shoved his tongue down my 18yo virgin throat and my cock stood straight up.

My 6th grade gym teacher.

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, the Lesley Ann Warren version of course.

Michael Landon, going commando, in his Khaki pants on Bonanza! I was glued to the tv everyday after school watching reruns!

I see your Michael Landon and raise you a Robert Conrad.

I don't understand, didn't the rest of you go through all the youth rituals at the Catholic school? I thought that's how we all became gay.

My two dads!!!

"that's how we all became gay."

We're not ALL Catholic, you know?

Conservatism leads to homosexuality.

Single-sex school is a big one. Only getting exposed to the one type of teen pheromone for seven+ hours every day.

I don't know, maybe I was born that way

That'll explain all the gay Jews from New York, R72. That well-known conservative demographic.

His name was Byron, and I was in love with him.

The jewfro and hairy chest of my 6th grade Spanish teacher. My first wet dream was because of him.

My dad's Barbra Streisand record collection.

Putting on blankets as a little boy and swanning around, pretending it's a beautiful gown.

My dads feet sucking them

Sassy caterers!

Sassy air traffic controllers!

I came across these nudist magazines belonging to a relative who, I assume, was gay but didn't want to buy gay magazines. Anyway, these magazines had both men and women in them; being nudists, many of the people featured, of either sex, were fucking hideous! One time, though, I had spirited away an issue and was looking at it when I saw a tall, lean, tanned and hairy man with a full bush and long, flaccid dick. Without wishing to go off-topic, it's my belief that it didn't make me gay - I was a flamer at four years of age - but it made me realise: WOW, I really like men!

Perhaps more suited to one of those recurrent "When did you realise" threads, but it's a happy memory.

National Geographic. All those years of looking at naked natives in the basement since EVERYONE felt compelled to keep every issue.

I blame this movie.

Did you all suck your dad’s feet too?

Yes.

I agree it's genetic. My grandparents had 4 kids. The two sons were gay. The two daughters had a total of four kids between them. Two of those four kids are gay. There are rumors that my grandmother's father was a closeted gay man.

I like dicks, and women don't have them.

God

@r89, I tried playing with boobs as a teenager, interesting, but when it was time to get down to business there was no there, there :(

Bewitched. Made me gay and I also went into advertising.

^ I still twitch my nose at people I want to disappear

Kim Carnes.

Gemini sun, Taurus moon, Scorpio rising. What choice did I have?

I was a drag baby.

^ This you?

^ I hear you :)

I don't know what caused mine. Sure my mom was al bit overprotective of me. But she died when I was a 13 year old. Maybe because a year later a neighbor boy and I explored a lot of oral sex with each other. Don't know.

Too many carbs.

Could it be...

^ I doubt it, never met the guy

Accidentally shoving a Rocket Pop up my ass.

Mens feet

Being led by the hand shopping with Mother through the Women's Shoes section of Lord & Taylor through the entire summer of my 6th year following my parents' divorce and amidst her emotional collapse.

That ball-breaking bitch Helen Lawson.

Growing up without a father.

Having Cole Gioberti as a hot bio dad, Lance Cumson as a hot faux dad, and Melissa Agretti as a batshit, oversexed mother.

Born this way, just like the rest of you homos.

R109 and you forgot the ex-wife of Ronald Reagan as the step great grandmother as well as a lunatic murderous as a step grandmother and. an all-around nutcase as a step great-aunt.

And course, the real grandmother was known for her fabulous head turn but drowned while swimming wearing a big ring.

??? Men with older brothers are more likely to be gay, study suggests.

In cross-analyzing data from 10 scientific studies with more than 5,000 subjects, researchers found that men with older brothers were 38 percent more likely to identify as gay.

I think it was something I ate.

^ Ass or dirty pussy?

ABBA and the strange allure of Mother's heels...

Mine was a combination of genetics, rebellion, and 'who don't like cock baby? ' being the best playa truism ever.

Liberal society and lack of religion. Conversion therapy has a 100percent success rate if patient is treated early enough.

Early enough? In the womb? So abortion IS the answer!

R118 with a rotten attitude like yours you have zero chance of rehabilitation

I need rehabilitation? I had no idea! Thank you, wise shit head. Glory be to your asshole. May it forever shit out brainwashed turds.

@r117, Is an abusive ass troll. I can think of quite a few things I'd like to "convert" you into. Fertilizer comes to mind

How the fuck does a moron like you even function? How about we deprogram your fundie ass?

I am amazed these mentally ill religious nuts wander over here and think they have some kind of power. Drop a house on them. Every time.

^ Exactly, the gall of thinking you can troll a Gay site with fundie bullshit, it's like me going to Parler to convert the Nazis

This episode of Spin and Marty.

It all started when a well-meaning neighbor lady gave me a candy necklace...

Gay propaganda

R112. We've discussed this before. The study(ies) show that men with older brother(s) increase their chance of being gay by 15% for every older brother they have. But only if they are right handed or maybe it's left handed.

Birth order can/does affect the maternal-fetal environment. Don't ask me how - something sciencey in there.

It all happened when he...he...touched me...down there.

Don Johnson in 1985

The moral compass that resides in all of us can get broken by physical injuries to brain. That's why conversion therapy needs to be undertaken at early age.

I don't mean to sound paranoid, but you type Russian.

Yes, injury to brain cause gay.

He's paid the price.

R117 and R130 never stops. Tell us, Dr. Boris, how early should we abort the gay baby? Before it comes out of the womb, or after it picks out wallpaper?

It was sweet, sexy Jesus. Oh Lord, be my guide, buddy.

Paul Michael Glaser in a bath towel.

russians

The size of Pancho Villa's package.

R133 not sure what u mean but he was tormented gay. Pretty obvious from his personality and odd things he said about Susan day.

R134 I'm canadian. Too old to take life seriously.

A screaming hot, hairy gym teacher, who showered with the students, Marlboros, Tenax hair gel and Honcho magazine.

@r117 & r130 100% of deplorable, fake Christians like you will rot in Hell. Jesus told me

Creamed corn.

Gay genetics on maternal side going back at least four generations, a distant father and a fraternal twin sister so that women my age always have felt like sisters.

I just never met the right girl, I guess.

I did, however, meet dozens of the right boys.

Bert and Ernie sharing a bedroom! Oh my...

Green M&Ms, silly!

My G.I. Joe with lifelike hair and kung fu grip.

For those of us in constant search of the good parts, G.I. Joe was a huge disappointment

You have no imagination.

R143 Garmonbozia? I knew it!!

I took a "felt tip Pilot Pen" and drew an erect penis and balls on my GI Joe (and Steve Austin) dolls! I was six years old.

^ We always new you gifted

^ *knew*

All men are gay in secret. They love their penis more than they could ever love anyone else, and that is easily transferred to other penises. Intelligent women know this and use it to abuse them.

^ I don't love my penis nearly as much as my penis loves himself. If he could drive and carry money, he'd leave me home

Cody (Perry King) and Nick (Joe Penny) on the 1984-86 TV series Riptide.

^ Oh, dear....

It's "We always knew you WAS gifted."

The insane incel R155 is back.

When I was 12, I was at a party where spin the bottle, a kissing game, was being played. When I had to kiss a girl, I felt such a wave of disgust and revulsion, I could barely do it. But when I watched the other boys taking their turn kissing, I felt excited and imagined it was me they were kissing.

This didn't cause my homosexuality, but it made me aware of it.

Funny how know one ever chimes in as bi on these threads. Seems like only Hollywood stars are bi.

It's ironical that woody allen and Clint Eastwood are straights in a gay industry yet they both have gay kids. Woodys kid, I think, got the gay gene from his mother who was from acting family. If mia was straight she is rare bird in Hollywood.

I was born that way, get over it. :-)

"What REALLY Caused Your Homosexuality?"

Although I'm 99% certain it's genetic...

I think the 1% is because I watched Charles Nelson Reilly as Hoodoo on Lidsville...

I was nudged into gayness by gay leading actors in Hollywood ie Burt Reynolds,Ben Affleck,mattdamon

So, when are you going to list gay actors?

Jeff Colby on (old) Dynasty and Miles Colby on The Colbys

R166 everybody but Woody Allen and Clint Eastwood are gay . Talented straight people would rather be executive etc

R167 I’m with you on Jeff Colby for sure! I was obsessed with him. I don’t think we had a VCR during Dynasty, but in the late ‘80s he did a godawful TV movie with Susan Lucci where she’s possessed & claws his shirt off. I don’t know how many times I fapped to that.

So, you R168 ARE the insane Everyone in Hollywood is a Predator, Gay, or a Gay Predator or a Child Molester Troll. You get around. How sad.

Lots of Tab.

I instantly turned gay that time I accidentally read Rona Barrett's Gossip Magazine in my dentist's waiting room.

I was only 12 years old.

God save me.

Marlon Wayans showing his bare ass to the audience at the VMAs in the year 2000. I remember my tween self staying up all night to watch it again when it reaired. Ever since then I was captivated by man booty!

Boys then men

Gil Gerard in Little House On The Prairie. I was a good little boy before that, but suddenly I knew that the direction of my life had changed because I had discovered lust.

[quote]Funny how know one ever chimes in as bi on these threads.

I no, rite?!

1965, the P. E. teacher in elementary school. He had a crew cut, a great body, and his nipples poked through his t-shirt. One day I went into the locker room to pee (it was the closest one) and I saw him toweling off from a shower. Hairy chest, a thick cock, and a really big bush countering his crew cut. He didn't see me; I would have probably wet my pants if he did. Ingrained in my memory, even now writing this.