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Tuesday, 22 November 2005
'You're soooo gay!'
Am I Gay?In childhood, the term 'gay' is thrown around as a general insult - if something isn't cool, for example. Most of the time it doesn't mean you're homosexual, but it does show how as young innocents people try to be as 'normal' as possible. It doesn't mean you're gay if a few people are calling you that at school.


Fantasies and experiments
A lot of people fantasise about the same sex, perhaps while masturbating, although they would never admit it. Many people experience feelings of attraction to the same sex during adolescence - due to hormones, curiosity and because sexuality is fluid; it is not 'black and white' or set in stone. People may experiment with people of their own sex, but this doesn't mean they are gay or that their sexuality is destined to be homosexual.

 

So - Am I gay?
Maybe. There are no hard and fast ways of telling - and it is important not to label yourself and think that's it forever - but you might think seriously about being gay if some or all of the following apply:

  • If you pretend to fancy girls just for social reasons
  • If you feel strongly and exclusively drawn to the same sex - in terms of who you fancy and love, not just who your friends are
  • If you feel that same-sex desire is normal and natural and, when you hear of it, think: that's me. In other words, if you know in your heart of hearts that same sex desire is right for you
  • If you feel that other boys' or girls' way of thinking just isn't you. You see things and feel things differently on some level

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12-11-2008 02:55
I am comfortable with myself.. almost. 
I still wish that I could be entirely straight so that my parents and family would be happy. 
 
But I have come to terms with the fact that I can and will love both guys and girls.  
 
:) message me if you want!
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31-10-2008 11:29
well, i've just come out and i feel fine with it. A big weight lifted off my sholders. But it would have been easier for god to bring gays out 100's of years ago so then it would be easier for us. lol
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09-10-2008 04:59
i'm very open to the fact i like girls, it just pisses me off that i can't just be gay or straight. i find it would be easier if i was a guy just for the fact that its easier to find straight girls and still be excepted both socially and by my self. i just dont know what to do with my self.
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07-10-2008 18:36
hi im 14 i think i am gay i think i know im definately not striaght but i worry i might be bi not that anything is wrong with it no but its cos sometimes when i think of sex sometimes its like a girl and i boy hsving it im scard cos i dont really want to fancy girls because sometimes for me it just sounds sick im worried im not gay enough anyone know how i feel i use to think of myself as fully gay but now im confused bi or gay anyone know how i feel :sigh
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06-09-2008 15:29
Baltimore, MD. Hit me up
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27-08-2008 06:37
Heya 
I'm 15 and i'm gay (i think) but i don't really know. it makes it even harder when no 1 knows and i got some girls that like be... 
 
oh anyone from AUS and wanna talk, hitme up...
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21-08-2008 02:32
im done with puberty and i always find myself dreaming about other girls and i dont know what to do? :?
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20-08-2008 10:15
well im starting to give up looking for another guy. 
 
ive tried everywhere on the net and this is my last resort 
 
i just want love so if anyone finds this just go to my profile look at my stats first and my location then if you meet even one of the criteria (preferably location) then kool... message me and i'll take it from there
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01-08-2008 01:41
I don't really know what I am, I'm not going through puberty anymore and I just can't picture myself with a guy, I've had boyfriends but something just never felt right.
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22-07-2008 03:48
i fantasise about having a relationship with another guy everyday. both sexually, and emotionally. however, i have been taught that it is so wrong, even though i disagree. so my biggest struggle is accepting the fact that i might be gay. i just don't kno yet because i won't have an opportunity to be with another guy until i leave my parent's house.
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22-07-2008 03:47
i fantasise about having a relationship with another guy everyday. both sexually, and emotionally. however, i have been taught that it is so wrong, even though i disagree. so my biggest sruggle is accepting the fact that i might be gay. i just don't kno yet because i won't have an opportunity to be with another guy until i leave my parent's house.
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22-06-2008 06:59
how do u know if ur gay or just bi?
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22-05-2008 00:28
Well in Jamaica it is horrible being gay, because here they can kill you just for that. :sigh  
But i truly don't care, i just live my life, and stay happy.
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15-04-2008 23:05
I'm just admitting to myself that i am bisexual. All my life i've been told that its bad to like girls because i'm a girl. My dads a preacher so it's way hard for me. he crushes me everytime he mentions homos or heteros he just hates them. But I say it's time to stand up for myself, eventhough im not telling him i'm bisexual yet i do stand up for L,G,B, T because it's wrong to bash people for their feeling. I also found out that two of my close girlfriends are bisexual to. So i have some people to talk to. Thanks for making this website. It's a big help lots of times!
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30-01-2008 19:40
let me set the scene for you. i surround myself with the highest G.P,A students in the school. all of them are completely fine with someone being gay. yet i can't find it in myself to come out to any of them. i knew a boy i met in 7th grade who imeddiately caught my eye for some strange reason i didnt undertand at the time. well 3 years later after i moved to another surrounding community i, still think this guy is the greatest thing ever to happen to me. by this time i have started to have gay fantasies about this boy. there were severeal signs that he himself might have been gay as well, but he has never to this day after several tries on my part, admitted to such a truth. but anywaya, by 10th grade i was strugaling with my feelings for this boy, so after a few bad things happened in our friendship, we "split up" for that whole year. well during this time is when i found out i gay for him. i dropped out of high school because of a sleeping disorder i developed as a cause of the depression not being around the boy i loved caused me. so i had to have his friendship back. and i did up untill about 3 weeks ago. i find that this gay love of mine will always go unfulfilled so i told him never to speak to me again. well more like i slept with the girl he was trying to date at the time. oh well now that i know i cant ever ever ever have him i feel completely fine now. but in the near future i believe i will still crave his smell, and beautiful eyes and hair, and his lovely body. i know in time my weakness will be to strong for me to keep a secret.
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30-01-2008 19:40
let me set the scene for you. i surround myself with the highest G.P,A students in the school. all of them are completely fine with someone being gay. yet i can't find it in myself to come out to any of them. i knew a boy i met in 7th grade who imeddiately caught my eye for some strange reason i didnt undertand at the time. well 3 years later after i moved to another surrounding community i, still think this guy is the greatest thing ever to happen to me. by this time i have started to have gay fantasies about this boy. there were severeal signs that he himself might have been gay as well, but he has never to this day after several tries on my part, admitted to such a truth. but anywaya, by 10th grade i was strugaling with my feelings for this boy, so after a few bad things happened in our friendship, we "split up" for that whole year. well during this time is when i found out i gay for him. i dropped out of high school because of a sleeping disorder i developed as a cause of the depression not being around the boy i loved caused me. so i had to have his friendship back. and i did up untill about 3 weeks ago. i find that this gay love of mine will always go unfulfilled so i told him never to speak to me again. well more like i slept with the girl he was trying to date at the time. oh well now that i know i cant ever ever ever have him i feel completely fine now. but in the near future i believe i will still crave his smell, and beautiful eyes and hair, and his lovely body. i know in time my weakness will be to strong for me to keep a secret.
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14-01-2008 08:24
I think that sexuality changes over time, for some people at least. I knew I was gay from the age of about 14, but only came out when I was 17 because I noticed that my fantasies and desires tended to swing to girls, then guys. Once they started being mostly about guys, I came out. but even now I wonder if I really am gay...it's hard to talk to my friends about this because I don't want to have gone through the pain of comming out only to say "whoops! Sorry, my bad" and be straight. I guess that means i'm bi-sexual, but I love boys and only find girls sexually attractive. Maybe i'm just like every other horny teenager out there...
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12-01-2008 03:32
awsom :) :grin ;) 8) :p :sigh :zzz :upset :eek :roll :? :cry :( :x
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06-11-2007 18:31
i think its very black and white if you like the same gender in a sexual way you are gay. if you like both you're bisexual and some people like one more then the other
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24-09-2007 21:49
am i the only person hu wnts 2 b circumsised? i think am gay bt stil like girls awel :?
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19-09-2007 14:42
:) :grin ;) 8) :roll :eek :upset :zzz :sigh :? :cry :( :x :) :grin ;) 8) :p :) :eek :upset :zzz :sigh :? :cry :( :x  
 
 
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04-08-2007 22:31
:)
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benyamin
22-07-2007 10:00
some ppl dont even like to label themselves as l.g.b anymore. they just like what they are attracted to...the term would be "bisexual" but im trying to find the right person...not the right sex... :grin
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11-07-2007 10:18
i do agree with this article, alot. i am myself, a 19yr old Gay Male. 
i live in Brisbane City in Australia, anyways to my point, being a teenager isn't the easiest time of your life, trying to learn how to cope with stress of school, friends, family and most importantly your hormones, hormones can mess with almost everything. especially when you have grown up in a family that expects you to be straight. its not easy, if you have a urge to see what its like to kiss a guy or a girl or well.... yea (i've leave the rest to the imagination lol) if you have the urge to do so, DO IT. you only live once. my eldest sister Leeanne had always told me, don't knock it, till you try it. and yes, i have had sex with a girl a couple of times it really didnt interest me, because i've known that i was always attracted to guys i really could ramble on about this. if you want to talk more on this feel free to msg me. 
Edi.
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03-07-2007 04:21
will sum 1 pleez help me i know im gay but i still think sum boiz are gorgeous i cant imagine miself wit 1 but omg its juss crazy!!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :cry :sigh :upset :?
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25-06-2007 23:05
to clarify most heterosexuals are misimformed so there use of the word gay is completely out of place and almost irrelevant. also i think that the information here only is imformative and thank you for it, but also i think that i shows that people's use of the word gay is so wrong the things that might apply to someone who thinks they are just shows that other people's use of the word gay as an insult is stupid. slightly blunt but i think that it is mostly accurate.
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25-06-2007 08:06
I know that its hard to be like this but i dont care but its not even going to be a shock for any of them cause they know it dont want to say anything to me but i guess thats kinda good... and this web site is so helpfull and full of great people i love it
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22-06-2007 03:41
I think that its nice to have things like this to read cause i live in a foster home and the word gay doesnt even come up. Its nice to know that if I have questions I have a site with some answers. :sigh
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21-06-2007 02:08
im still confused.....i have a girlfriend, but i am sexually attracted to guys. I wanted to experiment, im just scared how people will see me....
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26-05-2007 04:55
I have fantasies of myself with other girls and I've been wondering what it's like to be with another girl but I'm not sure if I'm gay or bi or if it's just a phase.
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21-04-2007 04:09
Well I have a gf but I also like to be with another guy. I started thinking about it when I was 14 and as I got older I decided to experiment. And I loved it. I love being with my gf but one thing that she doesnt know is when it comes to sex i love to be with a guy
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18-04-2007 21:14
:cry :eek :sigh :x :( :cry :? :sigh :zzz :upset :upset :eek :roll :p 8) ;) :grin :)
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09-04-2007 07:23
Hey I started to wonder if I was in in the 7th grade. I am now in the 9th. I have a gf and I love her to death, and I wanna be with her forever.I dont know how to explain thois but I~m attracted her her but I cant ecactly...get.."turned on".But I get"turned on by guys". but I cant see myself spending forever with a guy. I think I am bi. Please I need some help.
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confused_and_Scared
07-04-2007 21:03
hey its great to have thhis im a guy but u no girls might want to no some stuff to its only fair this hole things like just about guys
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02-04-2007 06:04
i am looking for a gay teenbecouse i am 14 teenand i would like them to leve in greenup or wurtland :roll :zzz :zzz :grin :grin
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josh jones
30-03-2007 01:54
it helped alot thanks.. 
but my boyfriend whats to have anal sex without being safe. but im afraid that he will cum in me. and he tells me he wont but im still afraid.. 
what shood i do..????
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25-03-2007 11:25
i dont think we should put a label. after all it\'s all meat. i am attracte to men and women and i don\'t call myself gay or even bi to be honest. to me, it\'s all meat, and love is the sauce.
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23-01-2007 20:52
here is what i have to say...... 
Look black and white can't get through descrimination so why should we think it would be any different between gay and straight people??It's actually simple. For people to feel confident in themselves the descriminate against what is different thatn them...it's life and racism and descrimination will never end. we have to learnt o live with as the blacks did and be thankful that we aren't like in the older day where blacks were slaves and hung for beliefs.Yes this is a new age and time but some things don't change.
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chiky
23-01-2007 02:57
live?
does anyone live in minnesota
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SchizzleStizzle9
07-01-2007 03:00
Yeah...
I think Im probably bi. I can only imagine having sex with guys, yet I want a g/f, and have only ever fancied girls. Its weird, but yeah...
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