HP Gay Voices Readers Share When They First Realized They Were Not Straight
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This week, blogger Allison Hope shared a great piece asking, "When Did You Know You Weren't Straight?" Her blog got some great reactions and the conversation spilled over into our Twitter followers, who found a way to describe their process of discovery in just 140 characters (or less).
Below we've rounded up just a few of the many touching and funny responses we've gotten over the last few days. It's just another example of how we have some of the brightest, funniest and most open group of people to call our family on the web.
I saw this article and the posted responses to the article and thought this would be a good question for our membership. I hope [you] will take the time and post a reply below.
"When Did You Know You Weren't Straight?"
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I will start :
When I was 5 years old I was the Ring Bearer in my cousins wedding. I remember vividly being very strangely attracted to her Fiance from the moment I met him. After they were married he became friends with my Father and they were golf buddies for years. I hated golf and only went with my dad a few times ~ I was much too young to play but would accompany my Father and his buddies and just did not enjoy it at all. Well, once my Father started to play every weekend with my cousin's new husband I started going with them every weekend just to be around this man. I did not understand the attraction or what it meant but I knew intuitively I could not tell anyone about this attraction.
As I grew older, maybe 8 or 9 years old, I heard the word Faggot for the first time (on the golf course) and asked what it meant. When I got the answer I knew they were describing me and from the description given from such a hate filled POV I entered the closet immediately. I knew I could not tell anyone about my attraction to men until I decided to come out after graduating High School. That was in 1973 when I came out to my parents.
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When I was 5 years old I was the Ring Bearer in my cousins wedding.
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Have you seen? t'was a sign of thy lord! Since those times your destiny was already written!! So repent yourself impudent and heretic plantigrade!!!!! :pope:
Butt, just a moment, ??? written by whom/whut? :hehe:
Ok, like all the vigorous and handsome bears I'd say you were much more advanced than me. The thing I remember very well when I was 3/4 is my discovery of the noble wanking art. Have you seen? t'was a sign of thy lord too! My destiny was already written!! I had to become this blind, lustful, ignominous underground animal :crazy2:. Nobody had to be closer to the divell than me etc. etc.!!!!! :pope:
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Joking apart there were not at all things we could deem as sexual in the pleasant little games I played with that baby dick. It was one of the many discoveries concerning my body and, believe it or not, I don't even remember t'was a thing I did so often. I remember there were lotsa amusing things to do/make and when I seldom happened to feel bored there was always this opportunity. My problems of course started more or less at 11 together with my puberty. Suddenly my obedient dick had got undisciplined. He did on his own the things I needed my hand to do before. Obviously when I saw some more or less little male friends. How did he dare to do that on his own??!!!!!!! Breach of discipline!!!! Insubordination!!!!! :bithfight:;D
