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Were you a gay kid?

I want to know if you did anything gay or anything you thought was gay when you were a kid. My main thing was my obsession with cars. I still am pretty obsessed. I'm getting pretty good at telling what make or model a car is just by looking at the car's body. When I was little all I wanted was a El Camino (still do).

This is before you knew you were gay/bi. 

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AlwaysModern's picture

for me...

Legos instead of barbies
A.K.S's picture

Legos

Legos were the spit.
cowgirlumhum's picture

LEGOS!!!

 

dude, I was so addicted. I constructed villages!

... and Lincoln Logs.

zombielust's picture

FUCK YEAH LEGOS. I had the

FUCK YEAH LEGOS.
I had the radioactive-underground-mining legos. I made subterranean colony vehicles with them. :]

shelby123's picture

i had the pirate collection XD

with my own little lego island

 :)

keekaleek's picture

omg i hated barbie too! i

omg i hated barbie too! i would but those sets of legos that where supposed to make something like a helicopter or somthing like that.

lucky charms's picture

well.....

I would rip the heads off my sisters ken dolls and put is cothing on barbies. What can I say I thought they looked better that way. And I would gag waching Adain or the littel marmade or snow whtie cause I thought the kissing sence was really really gross

Wow looking back now I was a gay kid......all well 

 

A.K.S's picture

LOL

U wanted barbie 2 be a stud. Awesome
StarryEyes's picture

lol yeah!!

haha yep

btw i love your avatar picture thingy i was laughing about it for a good 3 minutes!! Love And Let Love.

lilboy432001's picture

barbieken

hahaha!  yeah i remember ken..  i cut barbie's hair really short.. i am not sure if i acted gay or i wanted to be a hair stylist..  i was always playing guns and karate with the boys in my neighborhood.. 

When i was 9 or 10, i had an operation. i was still groggy but when i saw the nurse - i told my aunt == the nurse was beautiful...  she was speechless..i didn't mean to blurt it out though..

Cammy's picture

i had a power ranger doll...

oh and i was always shy around beautiful woman, i still am, also had/have obsessions with motorbikes and cars. Used to want to be a lawyer (love of powerful women)
A.K.S's picture

Me 2

I'm shy anyway but I seem 2 be shier around beautiful woman.
baarlijan_xen's picture

WAS I GAY?? I WAS EXTATIC!!!

 

- At age 5 I begged my mom for ballet classes just because I wanted to be with Guadalupe and see how beautiful she would look with a tutu on!!! XD

- At age 6 I told my mom I was in love with another girl in class... Maria Asunción.

- My favourite costume on carnival was Robin Hood.

- I was the only girl in an all boy soccer team.

- I never played with dolls... only my Ninja Turtles action figures.

- At age 9 or 10 I manipulated all the girls in class to start a "Kissing Club" in order to practice some kissing "for the boys" ahahahaha!!! Yeah like in preparation for our future boyfriends... needless to say I necked every single one of them.

- At age 10 or 11 I invented a sick and twisted game with my "best friend" Adriana where we would role play as Alicia Silverstone (her) and Winona Ryder (me) and we would make out for hours in her locked bedroom. Yeah, I don't understand it either. I don't know how but I always manage to pull the lamest excuses through!!! XD

- At age 13 I manipulated Adriana once again into going a bit further on our role game play if you catch my drift ahahahahaah!!!

 

And well it has been one long gay path ever since (men have only been but little bumps on the road every now and then).... so I guess yeah...

 

I WAS ONE HELL OF A GAY KID!!!! XD

 

* I am the Cinnamon Spider *

littlecaesar's picture

Awesome

I am in awe of you. Smart kid.
drgray's picture

YES U WERE GAY, VERY GAY

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 i THOUGHT i WAS BAD, BUT GIRL YOU WERE WAY WORSE. I MEAN I LIKED HE-MAN AND SHE-RA, HAD A FEW RUN IN WHEN YOUNGER AND NEVER REALLY GOT THE WHOLE HAVE SEX WITH A MAN THING, BUT I ...OH HELL I THINK I MAY BE EVEN MORE GAY THEN U. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
A.K.S's picture

I want 2 be just like u when I grow up. lol

U are a manipulating mastermind and u deserve a medal. lol

tootles's picture

=))

I wonder if your friend Adriana ever read this...

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Beebs_4's picture

NICE!

wow, I wish I had been such a smart kid like you!
cowgirlumhum's picture

I bow...

 

I bow to your greatness. that is amazing.

PalexForever's picture

Awesome!

"At age 9 or 10 I manipulated all the girls in class to start a "Kissing Club" in order to practice some kissing "for the boys" ahahahaha!!! Yeah like in preparation for our future boyfriends... needless to say I necked every single one of them. "

OMG, you...bloody....legend! I wish I could have thought of that in my younger, innocent days! That would have been awesome. Unfortunately, I was...eeek..straight until I was 13 years old! How lame.

PalexForever's picture

oops double post..sorry

oops double post..sorry
Wattlebird's picture

wow

wow, so i'm kind of in awe of you.

mynameisjenny's picture

I enjoyed undressing Barbies

 

a lot more than putting clothes on them.. 

a_beautiful_lie's picture

lmao me too, i'd always make

lmao me too, i'd always make barbie and the crappy doll thing Cindey get married, and have a hot and steamy honeymoon (:
Space Girk's picture

Let's Just Say...

I was the gay kid

shoshana's picture

i was a pretty gay kid

by age 2 my favorite things to do were wrestle my big brothers and go for rides with my dad on his motorbikes

age 5 i played with barbies by making them kiss eachother even though i did have a couple ken dolls and i developed a huge fondness for jessica rabbit and betty boop

age 6 i would filp through the playboys my brother and father had hidden around the farm

age 7 i convinced my best friend nikki that if we were going to play house we had to kiss like a real mommy and daddy

my 9th birthday party i play strip go fish and other games with all my female guests there were a couple boys there too but not enough to matter

age 11 i started to really notice the girls when changing for gym class and developed a rediculous crush on the most popular girl in class

age 13 my gaydar kicks in and i accidentally outed my friends cousin befor she had told anyone she was a lesbian. she came out about a year later.

age 14 i convinced nikki that sice we didn't really like any of the guys in our small class it would be ok for us to practice dating eachother so when we were older and had better options and real boyfriends we would know what to do

age 15 convinced nikki to stop playing around and be a real girlfriend because gender should not matter. it lasted for almost 2 years till it ended very badly due to the fact that she thinks she's straight

A.K.S's picture

Jessica Rabbit & Betty Boop

I was fond of them 2.

When it came 2 gym class all I could do was stare at the floor. I didn't know what else 2 do. lol

readmyhips's picture

aw, childhood memories

It didn't really hit me until I was about 13, less than a year before I first came out. 

In elementary school, though, I had two "best friends".  One was someone I just hung with all the time so by default we were "best friends".  I felt completely different about the other one, though, and I remember being confused by that.  She was this spunky red-headed tom boy, and I always wanted to be around her.  I was a somewhat prissy little thing (hated getting dirty, liked wearing cute outfits, etc.), so I thought I just wanted to be her because she was different.  At the same time though I knew that wasn't true.  It was until way after I came out that I realized I had had a huge crush on her.

Oh and when I was 12 I made Barbie a lesbian, too. My friends used to come over after school and we'd make up Barbie soap operas, and while theirs were having affairs with Ken, mine was a lesbian sex worker.  (I'm not really sure where that came from and I'm definitely not trying to make light of sex work, but hey, I was 12.)

A.K.S's picture

Barbie soap operas

Barbie was a lesbian sex worker? I applaud u on your creative imagination.
readmyhips's picture

ha!

Yes, I know!  While one of my friends made her Barbie have an affair with a younger man, mine was a lesbian sex worker.  I have no idea how that popped into my 12 year old head at all - I just distrinctly remember feeling compelled to make that her storyline. 

I think maybe that was the only way I knew how to make Barbie openly sexual.  (Yeah, because I guess somewhere along the line I picked up the idea that women couldn't be sexual any other way.  I went to Catholic school at the time, so that's what I blame.)

shortstack51's picture

Definitely

The first time I was aware of what was going on when my mom came to put a dress on me (think several months old), I tried to rip it off. If she tried to bows or ribbons in my hair I would scream...

I had a crush on my first grade teacher, to the point where I would daydream about kissing her and attempt to 'impress' her with my reading/cartwheeling skills (haha).

I could never understand why my parents kept trying to get me pink barbie things when all I did was toss them in the closet and play with my brothers' power rangers/teenage mutant ninja turtles/x-men/spiderman/etc. action figures instead.

When I was 8, I decided it was stupid to wear girly bathing suits and stole a pair of my older brother's swimming trunks instead. My mom was a little confused when she saw me swimming that day, needless to say.

I always played sports with the boys, collected bugs. climbed trees, etc.

Instead of a princess, I wanted to be Aladdin. (I always associated better with the male adventure characters.) For a long time, I thought the aspiration I felt to be these types of characters was what other girls called a 'crush'.

And so on...until I finally just admitted to myself that I was gay when I was 15. Two years later, and I still haven't kissed a girl. ah hah hah.....

(sigh)

 

 

"This is a tree on fire with love, but it's still scary since most people think love only looks like one thing instead of the whole world."

readmyhips's picture

LOL the cartwheel skills is

LOL the cartwheel skills is classic.  i love it :)
itslisabitch's picture

i still try to use my

i still try to use my cartwheel skills to impress people. they just look at my blankly. how many do i have to do?
birdie1413's picture

Let's see here... I

Let's see here...

I played with legos and never dolls or barbies.

I played soccer on an all-boys team.

I also manipulated my best friend into making out and even going further on several occasions.

I wanted a monkey instead of a horse.

In grade school, I played football and basketball with the boys.

Me and a friend used to flip through her dad's playboys.

I used to wish I could pee standing up.

Pretty gay kid, I guess...

A.K.S's picture

A monkey

U reminded me of that scene from the L word. I wanted a monkey 2.
Froggie3's picture

Yep... sure was.

When my best friend and I used to play Doctor or house, I would always be the man! We would act out scenarios for hours and I insisted that I must be the man of the house!

Always prefered female singers over male.

Loved all sports, loved to play with the boys.

Hated barbie dolls!! Ken was fun...

Vividly remember having a crush on my 3rd grade teacher. (Mrs. Kellogg if anyway ones interested, haha!)

Used to throw a fit and cry if my mother tried to make me wear a dress.

Was on an all boys baseball team.

Wanted to be a real cowboy.

Best friend and I would sneak into her dads bedroom and look at his playboy magazines.

Didn't want a penis but thought it sure would be easier to pee standing up...

Best friend and I would freely go skinny dipping in her dads pool often and would pretend to be kissing celebrities on the tiles.

Wow, so many things. I could go on but I think pretty much, yeah, I was a really gay kid.

five_by_five's picture

 This thread is

 This thread is hilarious!  All those tell-tale signs, they seem so obvious now!

 Your comment made me remember the massive sulks I used to go into on the rare occasions when my mum would insist on dressing me in girly attire (e.g. family weddings, choir sunday at church), I would dread the coming day for weeks beforehand and on the day itself would sit in the corner with my arms folded and a massive scowl on my face (and always managed to squeeze out a few tears).  Those were seriously the most traumatic memories from my childhood.

 I also remember being decidedly unimpressed when someone gave me a Sindy for my birthday one year.  I promptly broke her leg off, chewed her high heels (don't ask me why) then threw her out the window.

 In primary school my female friends used to make up games where they were princesses etc, but that crap was so boring to me, I used to play with the boys, a lovely little game where we would essentially brawl with each other.  I distictly remember straddling one of my boy friends, repeatedly beating him in the head and seeing my teacher in my peripheral vision pointing out what I was doing to another teacher and shaking her head.  Somehow I doubt she would be suprised to hear that I'm a huge lesbian these days.

chaibuff06's picture

was i ever...

Throughout my entire childhood at Halloween I would always be the most masculine characters imaginable. Let's see one year I was the Red Power Ranger (unlike my other friends, I didn't want to be the Pink Ranger, I wanted the Pink Ranger...haha...) I was probably Batman at three different Halloweens...I had an unhealthy obsession. When I was 7 or 8 I would always run around with my shirt off, stick pencils in between my fingers and be Wolverine...it drove my babysitter crazy. However, my very favorite was when I decided to dress up as AJ from the Backstreet Boys, and this wasn't even for Halloween...just something I decided to do one day. I drew the beard on my face and everything. My parents thought it was absolutely hilarious...little did they know they were harboring one very gay little girl. Muahaha *wrings hands together*

A.K.S's picture

LOL

U were a little drag king in training. Aj's beard was cool looking.
hmeyer08's picture

Let's see ...

Was always a little tomboy.

Dressed up as a baseball player, cowboy, and ninja for Halloween.

Played with matchbox cars, GI Joe, and Construx (is that what it was called?).  Hated Barbie -- used to rip the heads off my sister's Barbies and I hated playing house, etc.

Used to skateboard and go fishing all the time.

Played baseball with the boys until I was 12 when my Mom thought I'd get hurt and begged my parents to let me play organized football.

My best friends were boys and one other tomboy (she is straight and married) and we used to play everything, including tackle football.

I used to wear a ball cap all the time.

The boys in the neighborhood used to tease me and call me a 'dyke' and another derogatory term that I can't remember.

As a result, I used to get in fist fights with boys all the time.  Only once did I punch a girl that wasn't my sister.  Check that -- there was one other time when a girl was picking a fight with my sister ... I hit her too.

My best friend (a boy) and I used to pick on a family friend who was a really girly-girl always wearing pink and was very prissy.  Who would have thought she'd turn out to be a lesbian too!?  LOL  Her and I ended up becoming really close in HS and beyond. 

My mother threatened to throw away all of my pants when I was 9 because I refused to wear a skirt.  Thankfully, my sister stepped in and came to my rescue.  It was traumatic.

My friends used to tease me around the same time that I would get married in a pant suit and I very well may, one day.

Started wearing my father's jeans in HS (he's about 6-8 inches taller than me!). 

Only after I was older and accepted I was a lesbian did I realize that I had crushes on many of my close female friends in elementary school and HS, which is why I became friends with them in the first place.  Just thought I admired them for whatever reason back in the day ... little did I know.

LamiaCult's picture

gay kid

Okay, let's see.

I've had somewhere between short to really short hair since... always? I don't remember ever having long hair and there's no photo's of it either...

I refused to wear dresses from about age 6. Or ribbons, or pink, and only skirts when I have to. And before I got boobs I used to go shirtless all the time (like the guys)

I gave up correcting when everyone assumed I was a guy. (Although I still confuse people and that's annoying.)

If anyone gave me dolls I would rip their heads off and use them as soccer balls.

I used to pick fights with boys all the time and make fun of them when they cried.

Though, I guess I was just a huge tomboy. Nothing really on the gay spectrum.

 

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A.K.S's picture

lol, I adore u

Those poor boys are probably scarred for life.

Meke's picture

I kissed a woman

I kissed a woman(on the cheek) when I was 6. She was all and asked me my name, but I didn't hear her. When she bent down I assumed it was so I could kiss her.

 

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sukiislove's picture

I never realized

It took me a really long time to add up all the stuff I did as a kid as being gay. Around 5-ish I would play doctor with my friend, but she would have to always take her top off >.> I feel sorry for her now, since she probably felt uncomfortable. I was always a tomboy, I didn't really get girls, and I didn't get why when we were 3rd graders they didn't want to hold hands all the time. I have two planes of memory, both of which occured at the same time- my boy loving side, and my girl loving side. I had the biggest crush on my 5-7th grade buddy, who I was "wifey-s" with. I used to dream of getting a sex change so I could father her kids. In 6th grade I asked my parents for a sex change, and thought I was trans, met some girls online and explored being a lesbian. My best friend came out to me in 8th grade and we played around, and 4 more years after this, I have finally accepted myself as me. Took awhile though...oh! and from 4-9 I would always try to trick the hairdresser into giving me a boys cut, but my Mom would always find out in time.
Faded's picture

I played cars, legos, Pretty much anything Ilittle boys played

And even when i played babrbies.. Which i did alot of, Hlaf the time they were lesbians lol.. And they guys were always jerks lol. One time we even played our barbies were on a lesbian planet lmfao.

 

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badwolf's picture

Gay Child

I sported a boy hairdo from the age 6 to 9.

I wore "boys" clothing during that time as well.

I was such a show off around girls in gym class.

I made out with my best friend when I was 7 (and we're both lesbians now!). 

verdepark's picture

hell yeah!

i was the blonde who never brushed her hair. i forced myself to learn how to braid so i never had to brush it. i played tackle football and street hockey. i cut the hair on my barbies and dressed them in my brother's GI Joe uniforms. i turned ultra-femme in high school to compensate for my athlete status and some other subconscious reservations ; ) although i'm proud now, i was the stereotypical gay girl in denial. even despite me arm-wrestling boys!
Jen87's picture

Didn't realise

 

Alot of little things for me. I didn't realise that meant I was gay, but I knew I was different.

I liked girls more than friends...even from age 5

Played with my brother's lego instead of my dolls (which all had unfortunate boyish haircuts once I was finished with them)

Avid tree climber

And if my mum put a skirt on me...she heard about it all day, let's put it that way lol.

(And she had to catch me first! lol)

kckqoo's picture

I lifted up barbie's skirt

power rangers & legos >> barbies

When I was in kindergarden, we would have lunch as a whole and I was always the slow one. So when the teachers left me alone at a little table, I would pretend there were two girls next to me whom I'd put my arms around (like a pimp). 

At age 6, I would read my dad's violent comic books often showing female nudity and I would stare at those pages for a long time not knowing why I liked it so much.

I went to an all girls elementary school crushing on every teacher. I also had to wear uniforms and I asked my mom if I could wear my gym uniform everyday because it had shorts instead of a skirt.

When I learned to say no to my mom, I ditched dresses for loose pants and shirts.

  

After reading every post, I guess society tells us that straight is the norm so we all assumed we were before we even thought about it. No one knew she was gay right away because again, society didn't teach kids about gay people.

a_beautiful_lie's picture

Straight people coming out

kckqoo wrote:
After reading every post, I guess society tells us that straight is the norm so we all assumed we were before we even thought about it. No one knew she was gay right away because again, society didn't teach kids about gay people.

I've always thought how weird it would be if the whole would assumed that when you were born, you were gay and having those who are straight having to come out, like the episode on friends when that gay ballet dancer was actually straight and thought because he was a dancer that he must be gay...


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