Growing up. We all had to do it. But some of us had to do it while gay. Of course, at the time it was all very awkward and unclear and, at times, even isolating. Luckily, we’ve since grown up into fabulous queer adults and can now look back on our younger years and and see the humor in much of it.
So, without any further ado…
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Gay culture is growing up with only female friends in highschool then gradually replacing them all with your fellow gays™ after
— ??????? ?? (@bbymarxoxo) January 4, 2018
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Growing up gay means after a shower you put a towel around your head and tried as many hairstyles as possible. And if you were alone you walked around your home like THAT bitch. pic.twitter.com/5BEXonRxgC
— Christopher (@cehm27) January 16, 2019
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Growing up gay as a kid was me constantly looking away from the tv everytime someone/something gay showed up because I didn’t want my family to think I was “too interested” in it
— ???? (@sadkxit) August 7, 2018
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growing up gay was in middle school playing volleyball with the girls while the boys all played basketball
— Gavin Tyler (@6avinTyler) January 15, 2019
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#GrowingUpGay when your teacher asked for volunteers to act out a Shakespeare scene in front of the class. pic.twitter.com/xqbzmGMXlw
— Nate (@nathanbacon__) January 16, 2019
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Gay culture growing up was going into Abercrombie and staring at the ads on the walls and listening to the house music cause you weren’t old enough to get in a club
— Zach Butler (@zachhhbutler) November 26, 2017
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#growingupgay means being the friend everyone has to lie about hanging out with to their parents ?
— Gaylen Lyons (@gaylen_shawn) January 14, 2019
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#GrowingUpGay pic.twitter.com/4c7j9xl1FT
— Kevsie (@Kevsie) January 15, 2019
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As a gay man, I consider the following as assault: bro hugs, fist bumps, and that weird clap/handshake/hold bullshit. #growingupgay #gay #gayculture #bro #bromo #masc #brohug #fistbump
— Your Fav Gay Goy (@Romeojayyperez) January 9, 2019
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Growing up gay is seeing all your friends have relationships before you do.
— schleepyhead ??? (@wuicho_5) September 1, 2018
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#growingupgay pic.twitter.com/NQKITZGH5M
— KuntyGay (@KuntyGay) January 8, 2019
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growing up seeing queercoded villains in media never made me hate my identity, i just love evil gays now.
— splendid kong? (@splendidland) August 25, 2017
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Gays became gays because when they were growing up, their finger slipped through the toilet paper.
— sailor venus ? (@brolenciaga) October 25, 2018
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Growing up gay means you were thoroughly upset when the gym teacher divided the class into boys and girls. pic.twitter.com/492KQFdJlM
— Christopher (@cehm27) January 13, 2019
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Fairy Godmother from Shrek 2 had a profound impact on me growing up as a homosexual child
— jon (@prasejeebus) October 2, 2017
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LGBT culture is hearing the argument that if there's gay representation on television your kid will come out gay but you're still gay even though you watched all the same straight tv shows growing up
— Alexander Jr. (@ItsAlexJackson) January 23, 2019
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Mom: don't tell anyone you think you're gay
Me: …
Mom: …
Me: Oh right… pic.twitter.com/Ro5wQd5DHk— A. Gateem (@bobani_dani) January 10, 2019
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when i was growing up christians made it seem like being gay was just 24/7 sex parties and snorting coke but in reality its just binge watching criminal minds and burning sage on a saturday night
— elijah daniel (@elijahdaniel) April 15, 2018
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#growingupgay is seeing all these hot boys that are literally snacks yet you know that they’re straight and completely out of your league?
— ryan (@a__duck) January 19, 2019
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My dad wasn’t the type of man to show his kids Disney films growing up, he thought they lead to ‘soft men’ and encouraged ‘the gay outbreak’
I managed to find a way to push my little gay agenda by insisting of watching Mortal Kombat a lot. pic.twitter.com/kKuKnZvsrg
— Wolfe, actually (@StopItWolfgang) December 16, 2018
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Gay culture is being mistaken for your mom whenever answering the home phone growing up.
— Welcome to Chiji's, I'm Theo (@teejslipko) December 8, 2017
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Things I learned growing up:
-Everyone is a little gay
-Life sucks
-Everyone drinks
-Men are trash
-Sweets ain’t that good
-Nothing really matters— jez (@JezebelBro) January 3, 2019
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This is so true! ? #growingupgay pic.twitter.com/n65JakydAh
— The Proud Gay ???? (@the_proud_gay) July 9, 2018
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Why was growing up gay such a damn journey omg so dramatic for no reason
— raymond (@notmeraymond) September 19, 2018
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#GrowingUpGay is always choosing the female characters when you play any fighting video game
— JAMES ??? ??? (@jamesxingleton) July 13, 2018
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Me throughout pubity #growingupgay pic.twitter.com/si3qe6CdWJ
— Simon Crem ???????? (@simoncremfreche) January 24, 2019
Elf92
1, 3, 10, 12, 16, 20 i can relate too.
mcs
5 out of 26. Did I pass? 😉
WillParkinson
Huh. Guess I’d best turn in my gay card.
Rex Huskey
the sissies are winning
Doctor Benway
I can’t relate to any of them, such a group of clichés.
I grew up with males and females friends, i was playinf football with the boys (and i was damn good at it) and how i loved being in the locker room at the end of the game, that was the best part.
I never choosed female characters in fighting video games (seriously, that’s a non-sense).
The article should be titled : 26 tweets that perfectly defines what it was like growing up a sissy.
nitejonboy
Yet another homophobic, self hating fag.Go to hell.
Heywood Jablowme
I can relate to ONE: pretending not to be “too interested” in gay stuff on TV when watching with family. Yeah that was a tough two or three years there (eye roll).
MarathonBoy
So disgusting when effeminate men try to blame their sexual orientation for their failure. It’s like they will feel less guilty about it if they can pin it on being gay. I never played with girls and all of my friends but 1 were dudes. Most gay boys are normal, but they have to put up with being tarred by association with these pathetic effeminate losers.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
I have a friend who is as you put it a “pathetic effiminate loser”. He just happened to be born that way. His Parents early on knew the problems he would face. They didn’t try to change him. Rather they enrolled him in martial arts training. By age 11 he had earned a third degree black belt.
Very few things make me smile as much as seeing little 5’4″ Kyle standing above a bully on the ground who once the stars he was seeing stopped spinning. Kyle would inform them they if they ever acted stupid again, Kyle would act as stupid as they did…….
Also pretty sure he would kick the thit out of you …..
ruledbyadrian
Relatable.