Looking back, were there signs pre-puberty?

I said yes.
i never had a crush on a guy before puberty but i was attracted to them.
and i was always attracted to girls lol.

 

(I assume that the word "gay" may be replaced with "bi", or whatever, since there is no "I'm not gay"-option)

No, not at all. I can't really express myself well enough in english, so I can't give an explanation.

 

i had a nonsexual crush on a girl prepuberty, but there was always that little odd feeling when i saw guys shirtless. especialy if they were hot xD

 

Way back when I was about 6 or 7, when I first found out that two women could have a relationship, I remember thinking "I could be happy like that". I didn't really connect that with the concept of being gay for a few years, though.

 

Nope. Never knew as a child. Then again, I was a very naïve kid; things always went through one ear and out the other. I'm pretty sure that if I exhibited any signs, everyone else knew first. I also never had real crushes on anyone, especially since I was too pre-occupied trying to make sure I befriended as many girls as possible.

Omg I love that song and I don't know why.

 

My close friend and I used to sit at the girl's table at lunch. I remember staring at his body curiously at his birthday party. Once at another birthday party we were playing truth or dare, and I dared a few boys to take off their shirts (and say "suck it!", to make it more complicated and less suspicious). I must've been nine or ten.

I also had a girlfriend in second grade. I used to hang out with her and her girl friends. One time at recess we were braiding each other's hair, but then one of my sister's friends came over and I got scared and ran away. My girlfriend was and is very pretty, I would totally try and date her if I was straight. Too bad, huh?

I also read the Goosebumps book Say Cheese and Die...Again and found the graphic descriptions to be really interesting. Except I knew I wasn't supposed to feel that way, and I didn't know how I was supposed to feel.

 

Yeah....back in elementary school I had a crush on a guy. All these years later, I still think he's cute.

I also enjoyed doing "girl things" just as much as (or more than) "boy things". Most of my friends were way into Boy Scouts(and still are), but I absolutely hated it. After a year or two, I forced my parents to let me quit.

 

I always knew that I was different and from a young age I was closer to girls and couldnt figure out why guys and girls couldnt be friends. When I got closer to puberty and other guys started getting crushes on girls, I never really thought that any girl was hot, and I didnt understand why guys thought girls were confusing; I understood them better than I understood myself and other guys. Then I realized that I thought guys were hot and even if I thought I had a crush on a girl, I just thought she was beautiful and was really cool. I tried to tell myself that I'm bi, but I realized I wasnt after I thought that this nearly perfect girl was beautiful and not hot.

 

I put no, because im a blind idiot.

really... i was in crazy blind denial. Even though now i realize how i thought my eighth grade math teacher was really hot and how when i was 5 i dressed up in dresses...and played with barbies with my sister... somehow the possibility of me being gay wasnt an option in my mind. until i went to europe with my sister and BOOM! italian men everywhere....

 

i put no. i had no idea untill i hit like 13. then i started noticing boys more and more. i was in denile untill freshmen year high school. i hoped it was just a passing phase.

but yes i guess there were signs. i grew up mostly around my two sisters and my mom because my dad was always at work. so i ended up playing with their toys because i was around them and my sisters were the only ones to play with. i also had a thing about putting on my moms high heels. i just thought it was funny at the time but looking back...

 

yeah there was definitly sgns, i played with dolls and girls from a really young age.
i always felt different to teh rest of teh guys, but i was a smart child so i blamed it on that for a long time, i remember actually thinking to myself for quite a while that girls must be smarter than boys as the smart people at my primary school were pretty much all girls but me...
been a while since i thought about that...

 

No signs about me being gay. Just signs about me being different (eg playing with dolls, though one can't say that that's a surefire way to tell that one's gay)

 

hmmm....

I used to dress up in womens clothing, shoes and make up.

I didn't really like sports.

My better friends were always girls.

I've loved musicals since forever.

Yes, I'd say there were signs.

 

Looking back, I think there were some signs that I very clearly missed before I hit puberty and had my first crush on a girl. For example, once I actually said 'I hate boys'. Admittedly I was exaggerating big-time but at the time I thought romance was stupid and did not understand how people were so into hooking up with guys, kissing them, going out etc.

It's only later that I realized that what I must have meant was 'I'm not interested in boys'. I just didn't say that because at the time I had no idea that I was gay, and therefore interested in girls instead. I always assumed I would wait until I was older and that the feelings would come later.

Whereas before I couldn't understand the concept of romance, I discovered when I came out to myself that actually I'm a complete romantic and love to dream of being in a relationship, only with a hot gal instead of a guy!!

EDIT: I actually selected 'No' in the poll because until puberty, I didn't have any idea whatsoever that I was gay. I thought I was straight for all that time...lol...

 

I said yes because there were signs. BUT that doesn't mean I always knew, because I tried to convince myself for a long time that I was straight and harboured crushes on boys and whatever. So, although there were signs, I tried to ignore them.

 

Is wanting to be batman a sign?
Other than that I don't think there has been any signs besides the fact that I knew I was different (read knew I wasn't straight when I knew the meaning of being straight)

 

I was into typical guy stuff, but also typical girl stuff. I played with firetrucks and barbies. I was also obsessed with both baseball AND arts and crafts. I was a big momma's boy though and wasn't really close with my dad (this is where the conversion therapists swoop in and state this as the psychological cause of being gay).

Any crushes I had were always on girls though and I never felt an attraction to guys until I was 13 or 14. It was like an abrupt shift, which of course made it take a lot longer to admit I'm gay and cling to hopes of heterosexuality :bang:

 

No. I never even had a crush until sixth grade (Im totally serious). Didn't have a crush on a girl until this year. Well maybe last year, but I kind of ignored it.

 

Honestly no..

There are so many hints as to that I am gay now.. majority of my friends are girls, etc.

Back in elementary school, and 6th grade, my best friends were always boys, and I always had a lot of boy friends. For some reason in 5th grade though, people started to call me gay. Honestly, I don't know why but they did. I truly do believe that the persistence of them doing that and me being called until 8th grade is what made me think "am i? am i gay?" and thus caused me to be gay. At about 8th grade I started to realize that I did like boys, but I also did like girls, and I concluded to myself that I was bi. It wasn't until 2 months ago did I decide that I really am gay, and I've stuck with it, and I'm proud.