What were the first signs that you were gay?- Page 4

[jakebloke]

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.

[PalJoey]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[Raviolisun]

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.

[D2]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 2:40pm

I was never in love with my P.E. teacher. He was a prick. And not the good kind.

[vmlinnie]

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...

[Albin]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 2:47pm

The first time I sucked d*** gave me a clue!

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 2:48pm

So did your sig, I suppose.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 3:43pm

I 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.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 3:52pm

linnie, 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.

[BroadwaySinger2]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 3:54pm

Isn't spider married?

[D2]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 4:03pm

Isn't Tom Cruise? It really doesn't matter, though. If Spider says he's straight, then we should take his word for it.

Updated On: 4/15/07 at 04:03 PM

[husk_charmer]

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.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

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.

Updated On: 4/16/07 at 06:40 PM

[husk_charmer]

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]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 7:00pm

I know Over the rainbow, and I don't really know the Twelve Commandments all that well. What? There are Ten...?

[husk_charmer]

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.

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 7:31pm

At 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.

[harris007]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 12:00am

damn i didnt do any of those things, maybe im str8

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 12:28am

do you like to suck cOck?

[harris007]

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

[StageManager2]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 12:45am

He prefers udders, Joey.

[muscle23ftl]

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.