Topic: How did you know?



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Reply by Salvo

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I wanna say I was around 14 in highschool and I had a really close guy friend who was my first friend I made in highschool. We hung out all the time and it felt like a normal friendship to me. One day we were hanging out at his house and he had a swing set outside and I remember him leaning in to kiss me out of nowhere and I didn't break away and leaned into the kiss and that's how I knew I liked men. I was like "Oh! I liked that" lol


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Reply by Lalaa_x3

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im not completely sure of what i am lol but for now i just say im bi

i waz sure i liked girlz thiz year when i actually kissed a girl

but i waz already questioning my sexuality since i waz 15 (im 18 now)


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Reply by Mars the Oreo fan

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Well I am pan and I had a friend and she was a girl and IDC what gender she was I like her because she was so nice to me and now it’s has been 5 years and I miss her ): and for some people who don’t know what pan is it mean’s pan sexual is when a person is attracted to people regardless of their gender identity they could be attracted to people who are cisgender or transgender people who are non-binary like me gender non-conforming anyone really the point is gender does not play a role in who a pansexual person is attracted to is all about personality to a pan like me <3



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Reply by Katty

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I was always a little different, at least. I stuck out. 

I guess I was reading up on it and realized how much it sounded and felt like me. Gender fluid made me comfortable. I am gender fluid and genderfluid was me. 

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I had been lesbian prior. 

Pansexual just felt right


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Reply by Alyssa

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realized a little while ago I was bisexual it started when I was a kid and i used to watch movies and when people would talk about their movie crushes they used to be boys and girls also the time my old best friend she asked me out and that was the first time i like though about it i grew up religious and its frowned apond in my community which sucks. 


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Reply by ANDREWXD🦈

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I'm bi. When I was little (like 5-6 years old) I've always had a crush on girls and always wanted to date a girl, but I was on denial. And as I grew older, I started to become attracted to boys and that's how I knew I was bi :P


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Reply by Beans

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When I was younger I use to think dating was something I had to do so I looked for a guy but when I didn't really see them the way other girls did I thought I wasn't normal, when I looked at this one girl I new I loved her, that's how I found out also that girl had a boyfriend


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Reply by arealrat

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I had just broken up with my first (and only) boyfriend when I realised how extremely uninterested I was in boys. I think it was in 3rd grade.


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Reply by Lunuff

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For me it was during middle school. I met this really nice guy (well just call him friendo) and we got pretty close throughout the year, after a little while of knowing him he, asked me out. I was super confused and didn't know how to respond, since my parents thought me that it was only men and woman, he was super understanding and explained the LGBTQ community to me, rest assured I thought of myself as Pansexual, since later on I had interest in men, trans, and women members. and that's how I became a part of this amazing community!!!!!


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Reply by ♡Ene☆⁠

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I went through the "I don't like anyone so I'm pan" to aroace phase,did a lot of research after realising aroace was a thing(⁠─⁠.⁠─⁠|⁠|). I was like 10 when i realised and lots of people are still telling me that I'm too young to know but I'm certain I'm aroace it's been years after all


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Reply by Vicki

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I remember it was when I was about to enter the 7th grade and I was YouTube and was just watching wlw compilation for some reason. Then I remembered my ex best friend and that's when I realized. At first I thought I was lesbian, but later on I switched to being bisexual because I still liked guys. But this guy in my 7th grade class said he was pansexual and people made fun of him. so I curious what that meant so I went home and searched it up. then I thought to myself "would I like someone if they were trans or genderfluid?" and I said , "no I wouldn't care, I would still love them". so here I am, still in the closet and one cousin knows about it. never dated. 

btw whenever I saw her at school, I would smile under my mask nonchalantly. we still talk to this day, but I never told her I had a crush on her in 7th grade.


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Reply by TekkenKing7373

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So basically I was playing Metal Gear Solid 2 about 2 years ago, and i kinda just went: "huh, this guy is caked up ngl. OH WAIT IM BRICKED UP. anyway, back to peak fiction." i pretty much came out to my friends immediately (no one gave an actual fuck) and never came out to my family, not because they'd be homophobic/biphobic (theyre incredibly inclusive and leftist), i just feel like my sexuality shouldnt matter to them. also im too lazy to come out.


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Reply by Tea

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I grew up with this person since first grade, and we have been neighbors and each other's best friends for 12 years already. I grew up catholic with homophobic parents so it took me years to get out of the denial phase and let me tell you when I found out everything made sense. I remember adoring this person and imagining them to love songs but the scenes were platonic intimacy (I was a kid so of course) and I always held them in high regard, they were my entire world. I hated hugging when it was prolonged, but they became the exception to the point where I looked forward to even the slightest touch. 

Highschool was the pivot for me, all these intense feelings I labeled as queerplatonic were questioned as romantic when they started becoming more flirty. We had gags like leaning in for kisses put pulling away last minute and generally flirting in the friend-joking way most people do. We even fake dated when they wanted revenge on one of their exes, put they acted the same way even at home. And for the first time in my life, I wondered if I could be selfish and have them for myself instead of supporting from the sidelines. I knew I could make them happy. Hand holding, cuddling, late night talks and crying, all of it and maybe more than we dared to do. But they see me as a sister and only like men so its not really worth telling them all of this, I just hope it will go away with time. They are the only person I loved this way, even the slightest bit.


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Reply by Kiuriovv

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I kissed a girl, and I liked it, or whatever Katy Perry said


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Reply by cinnamorolls

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hmm,, for me, i'd say my first realization that i liked girls was arounddd 7? i always thought girls were really pretty and always preferred girl characters over male characters in pretty much any video game i played LOL but the moment when i for sure Knew was when i developed a crush on a 4th grade female classmate,, i grew up with easy access to the internet so i was already okay with all things lgbt so it didn't make me feel scared,, i felt pretty comfortable (especially since we weren't close so i didn't have to worry about ruining a friendship lolz) and i ended up randomly coming out to my dad right before bed a few days later lmao,, since then i've had a lot of different sexuality (and gender, which i'm still figuring out i fear) changes but the one thing that has never changed is my love for girls :3


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Reply by aidA

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With me, I've been feeling for when between i'm around 8-10 I got shortly thoughts that kinda still vaguely think it about why or i got preference as shorts between below knee and just above with other jeans and not exactly a fun of any other shorts but i don't hate the rest. Idk with my shirt or sleeveless either in my type of fashion but i can really get why after sometime too.

Joined in at the first why and had been getting tomboyish vibe but gentlemanly like with almost no interest and i can't seem to have crushes along the line. Exception of I'm picky to stand who and each grade I'm labeling so many I know personally to be a crush labeling but not too serious at all and the later time would be. My last year before high school i got a same sex i discover I'm really serious on a crush for the first time other than a picked by same kind of my shortly honeymoon phase in-personal first ex i had after i lost interest to.

And i got pretty much late phase in my almost junior years, i learned more clearly i am not technically in same sex im only into but both at first but learned it on my before the pandemic and my shs year start that I'm not just interested with 2 genders and the rest is history up 'til now.


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Reply by Tobii

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 I'm not sure when the moment specifically for sexuality was tbh. I know I learned a lot about the LGBT community off Pinterest (I thought Instagram was boring as fuck at the time, I still use Pinterest as much now as I did back then). I guess I always just knew it didn't matter that much what gender the other person was as long as you guys liked each other. 

 Gender though I remember very well. It was lockdown (surprise surprise lmao) and I came to the realization that "Wait, I have an awful lot of male oc's, that's not very feminist of me". See, the thing about that is that I tend to imagine myself as my oc's as I live life and when I tried to force myself to live as one of my female characters I came to the concluion that no, this is horribly uncomfortable. That wasn't the lightbulb moment somehow, clearly I'm not the brightest lol. Either way, sometime later, I was going to sleep, thinking about a little plot and that lightbulb suddenly lit up so bright I got flasbanged (not really but yk what I mean). I realized that omg I'm far more comfortable identifying and being percieved as masculine and I was actually so so happy in that moment afterwards. 

 So yeah that's kinda it. 


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Reply by Jennifer VAMPYRIAN616

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technically I have dated both genders but I have never felt right as a boy so yeah but its hard when you have not a lot of people like you esp in my city


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Reply by Harlow

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Im still not actually sure what my sexuality is, but I identify as a girl and I behave like any other girl. I think I might be bisexual but I'm not too sure. all I know is that I'm pretty sure I'm not straight. so what makes me think I'm not straight? well, sometimes when I see girls I'll think they're cute, not in like any sort of like really sexual way but as in like I wanna be besties with them but like not besties? it's rlly hard to explain. I like boys too, though. but, basically, I like girls (I think) and boys. I don't really have a specific type either. whenever someone asks me what my type is, I say "I don't know, I don't have a specific type" because its true! if I like you, I like you, and that's all there is to it. so can someone PLEASE tell me if this is kinda like a sign of me being not-straight? and if so, WHAT SEXUALITY IS THIS BC I CANT FIND ONE THAT MEANS THISSSSS (maybe its bisexual but idk guys plz give advice T-T)


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Reply by RavenMustDie

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My old best friend and I would jokingly act like partners for her it was still platonic and I was slowly getting feelings for her 2 bad she's str8 ig


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Reply by velvekraiX3

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well its complicated.. i became went into discovering my sexual identity for a year when i was 12 and ended up liking both genders, but got bullied a bunch for it cuz i was vocal... (twas in a christian school v-v)

then i became a bigoted christian for about three or so years, then i went like "maybe repressing my memories wasn't a good decision" then i left for paganism, now im bisexual again :DDDDDDDD


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Reply by avril_xoxo

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well i found out im gay in a lesson... by my classmate. yeah strange ik lolz.

a little backstory, when i was a little boy, i had no attraction to women whatsoever and i thought there was something weird going on with me not liking women. I even tried to look at lesbian corn videos to "fix myself" at that time i didnt know anything about lgbtq+ :P

anyway i was in grade 7 in my health and social class and my teacher was talking about lgbtq+. at the start of the lesson the teacher asked us what do we know about sexualities, and so my classmates raised their hands and said that theres different sexualities etc and the teacher asked these students what each sexuality mean. and so this 1 guy in my class explained what it means to be gay and i just sat there listening carefully and processing this new info and i was like "hold up that sounds like me". at the end of the day i literally rushed home to document myself more and dig deeper and deeper in many damn articles until i got enough info and evidence that i am gay. and guess what? i took a step further... watching gay videos. my first ever gay video i watched was 3 emo boys having hardcore kiss session for 20 mins . I WILL NEVER FORGET THIS MEMORY!!1. throughout the whole video i kept smiling and giggling and thought this was the most beautiful thing ever in the world-

sooo yeah thats basically it. soooo cringe ikkkk


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Reply by madii

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I knew when I realized I didn’t have any attraction to men, and started looking at women in a more romantic way… I figured it out when I was around 9 or 10, and I recently got my first gf!! 


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