How old were you when you realized you were gay?

Long before I had any clue about sexuality. I cannot pin a specific age when I knew for certain.

12 or 13.

By age 11, I clearly recognized an attraction to boys and not to girls.

I would not judge someone recognizing this later. Denial is a real thing.

I don't blame them, Teacake. Society, families, and religion do a number on some people which often leads to a complicated and messy journey.

I was 10. Watching "Wyatt Earp" Hugh O'Brian's hairy chest aroused me.

I do if they know they are gay because being a bachelor is perfectly possible. I know of quite a few old men who never married.

I was 13 when I knew. As a kid, I had a lot of medical problems which led to school issues with peers so my first reaction to realizing I was gay was "Great! Now I'm fuckin gay, it figures." Why did we do this to kids? I shouldn't have been incredulous about something so profound and important but here I was thinking 'What else can go wrong in this life'.

Depends on their age. I’m 66 and, despite the homophobia I observed back then and genuine romantic feelings I had for a high school/early college girlfriend who came out as lesbian after we broke (the sex was just wrong for both of us), I figured out I would be happy trying to live as a straight man. It was tough—I never came out to my parents and brother) (though did to my sister, who was accepting and living. Some of my age peers did marry women and fathered children—and then left them for men when the kids were teenagers. The wives typically had no idea and were left high and dry. So, I’d say, given gay visibility and greater experience (though I know it still varies from place to place), I think there’s far less excuse to put a woman/children through it. And I realize that there are some men (and women) genuinely don’t come into their gay desires until the middle of their lives.

It's very sad what religious teachings did to repress so many homosexual people. Why couldn't they have a chapter about people taking others in love and marriage?

Imagine sacred Holy Homosexual vows of marriage. Then if you married you had to commit to that person for life. Idk just something better than kill all the gay sinners.

One troll begs for judgment while the next plops in because it's about serving something no one wants.

I sashayed out of the womb so...

R11 = Lizsha

I don't judge them.

I don't **understand** the marrying a woman part of it, but that's their experience, not mine, so I would never judge anyone for whatever their life experience might be.

I was 4 or 5 when I felt homoemotional, that attraction to boys. At 11, it became homosexual. Shwing!

You're just gonna fly on outta here, aren't you?

14-15 when I put two and two together, 18 when I started coming out, never looked back once