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What were the first signs that you were gay?
jakebloke
Broadway Star Joined: 5/29/03
#75re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/15/07 at 12:02pm
When I was about 5 or 6, I loved watching the Sonny and Cher show. I think I was mildly obsessed with Cher. I used to take a really long shoelace, (my dad would use them for his hightop basketball shoes) and I would take a beret (not sure how you spell that word) and attach it to my hair and pretend the shoelace was long hair. I would stand in the mirror and pretend I was Cher flipping it behind my back and sing. I did this in secret until my sister caught me once. It didn't really phase my parents much back then. I don't know why they were surprised when I came out 20 yrs later.
#76re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/15/07 at 1:05pm
The desire to do a Cher imitation is not necessarily an indication of incipient homosexuality.
The desire to perfect one's Cher imitation is.
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#77re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/15/07 at 1:09pm
A beret is a French hat... I think you meant a barrette.
Early sign I was straight: 5 years old, and had giant crushes on Captain Kirk (Original Star Trek) and Starbuck (Original Battlestar Galactica). Apparently, these were also early signs of my impending sci-fi geekdom. 
BroadwaySinger2
Leading Actor Joined: 4/12/07
#78re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/15/07 at 2:03pm
- I played with Barbies
- Girls were all of my friends
- I used to flip my wrist when I was young
- I was obsessed with the Spice Girls
- I wore my mother's high heels
- I was obsessed with the theatre
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#79re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/15/07 at 2:31pm
Well, I've always been into theatre, but never the rest of all that stuff. In fact, until about a year ago, I was in deep, deep, denial. Search for the threads from then, you'll see why. Shall I show proof?
Btw, WannaBeAFoster, great thread bump. And I think your reply is my favourite too.
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#80re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/15/07 at 2:36pm
When I was a five-year-old who loved Judy Garland and was in love with my P.E. teacher.
Oh wait, I forgot I was a straight teenage girl and not an adult gay man.
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
#81re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/15/07 at 2:40pmI was never in love with my P.E. teacher. He was a prick. And not the good kind.
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#82re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/15/07 at 2:45pm
I recall the story, D2. Mine too.
Bte, would you like to see my period of deep denial? Search fopr one of the first threads I started;
"The Offical 'I'm not Gay, I just like Musicals' Thread".
Oh, the good times...
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
Albin
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#83re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/15/07 at 2:47pmThe first time I sucked d*** gave me a clue!
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#84re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/15/07 at 2:48pmSo did your sig, I suppose.
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#85re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/15/07 at 3:43pmI also loved Barbie dolls, yet, it was strange, I played with the Barbies with some family friend's daughter collection, and I never wanted to leave, it was kinda weird, because I was embarrassed to be seen with the Barbies, yet I couldn't let go of them.
#86re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/15/07 at 3:52pmlinnie, I recall your denials very well. That's why I'm shocked (but not surprised) at you admission here. Not your admittance into the exclusive gay community, but your confession. Now, I'm still waiting for spidey.
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
BroadwaySinger2
Leading Actor Joined: 4/12/07
#88re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/15/07 at 4:03pmIsn't Tom Cruise? It really doesn't matter, though. If Spider says he's straight, then we should take his word for it.
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#89re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/15/07 at 5:29pm
Let's see-
age 4- Knew the lyrics to "Over the Rainbow" before the Ten Commandments
age 6- Had a crush on this random jester character in a version of "Through the Looking Glass" with the Smothers Brothers
age 8- For class assignment to write a book and dress up as a character, I wrote an original sequel to "Wizard of Oz" and dressed up as Dorothy.
ages 9-10ish- Was Kimberly the Pink Ranger everytime we played
That's just a few of the many...many...signs.
#91re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/15/07 at 6:40pm
Let's start a thread that says....What were the first signs that you were straight?
The same signs that us gay guys knew we were straight. Our parents told us, just like your parents told you.
"This girl is your girlfriend."
"You're going to get married to a woman and have lots of children like just like us."
"Hey sport, be a man! Shake it off."
"Hustle! Hustle!"
"Do you like any of the girls in your class? You and Sally would make a great couple. Ask her out!"
*signs kid up for baseball, soccer, takes kid to baseball games, buys kid trucks, action figures, paints room blue*
Should I go on?
My parents shoved straightness down my throat from the minute I was born.
AKA: shoving your kid into a closet from which they must try to come out for the first 20 years of their life.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#92re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/15/07 at 6:45pm
Bravo Foster!
You can say that there aren't signs. Not in all cases, but in some that you should go "Yea...we have a gay son/daughter." My parents should have realized it, and didn't. They still don't like acknowledging it. Which is fine for now.
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#93re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/15/07 at 7:00pmI know Over the rainbow, and I don't really know the Twelve Commandments all that well. What? There are Ten...?
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#94re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/15/07 at 7:22pm
vmlinnie-
It *wouldn't* have been as big a problem, if I weren't the only son of two Southern Baptist Sunday School teachers.
#95re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/15/07 at 7:31pmAt twelve years old I enjoyed watching movies like "All About Eve" and "Sunset Boulevard." At fifteen I knew every word of the OBCRs of "Gypsy" and "A Chorus Line." At my sixteenth B-day party we watched "Gone With the Wind" which had just been released on video for the first time.
#96re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/16/07 at 12:00amdamn i didnt do any of those things, maybe im str8
#97re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/16/07 at 12:28amdo you like to suck cOck?
#98re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/16/07 at 12:42am
PJ
im shocked you would ask ME such a thing, and in front of miss holly and for the record no
#99re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/16/07 at 12:45amHe prefers udders, Joey.
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#100re: What were the first signs that you were gay?
Posted: 4/16/07 at 12:50am
"I don't know why they were surprised when I came out 20 yrs later"
I think that parents are in denial, as I said, I played with Barbies, even my dad bought me a doll once, and he took me to see Liza Minnelli's concert when I was 14(after I begged him to) and yet, yes...they had no idea I was gay.
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