Some people know they are gay at a very young age. Others, don’t come out until much later in life. Everyone is on their own journey and has their own timeline. It’s part of what makes us unique.
But whether it was when they were five years old, 15 years old, or 55 years old, most LGBTQ people have a general sense of when they first knew they were gay.
So without any further ado…
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I knew I was gay when I always wanted to be the pink power ranger.. ?
— j. herrera (@thegenuine_) June 17, 2019
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i knew i was a gay when my brother broke my hilary duff cd and i cried
— Reyes Ramos (@reysrams) July 13, 2019
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the moment i knew i was gay was when i watched the buffy episode where angel comes back from hell in the nude pic.twitter.com/bgoMYkRPZb
— jordan (?(•???•?)?) (@livingdeadtwink) February 28, 2019
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When I was younger, I used to look at popcorn ceilings in homes and gag out of disgust, and that’s how I knew I was an interior design gay
— Kenny (@kennecelis) August 22, 2019
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I knew I was gay when I was a kid bc I was mad my cleats for soccer didn’t match my uniform ever
— Johnny Gonzalez (@jahnnyy) July 28, 2019
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This is how old I was when I knew I was gay. (1997) (5 y o) pic.twitter.com/Jppwm15wMf
— Jai (@jairrron) May 23, 2019
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I knew I was gay when all my friends said I walked to fast in junior high
— Kevan (@notkev_) August 4, 2019
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i knew i was gay when i didn’t find any popular male comedians on TV funny LMFAO
— siham (@sihamese) August 23, 2019
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and that’s when I knew I was gay https://t.co/5D01bd4xOZ
— debs (@itsdebs1) August 21, 2019
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the first time I knew I was gay was when I realized I didn't like bacon as much as the boys around me
— #BeatUtah ?? (@kylecoug) August 12, 2019
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I knew I was gay when I entered to win the HGTV dream home giveaway when I was 10 years old
— Butterfly (@swamp_pixie) April 6, 2019
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I KNEW I WAS GAY AT 6 YEARS OLD WHEN I USED TO WATCH THIS ON REPEAT
.WITH.MY.MUM ??? pic.twitter.com/benfyAjjg1
— little fredds ?? (@littlefredds) August 9, 2019
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i knew i was gay when my favorite part of watching Hannah Montana was being able to see her huge closet
— ryan (@ryancreeedon) July 6, 2019
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ugh i knew i was gay when i was adding all the bitches on myspace who had their ass as their profile picture , commenting “ i like your profile picture “
— h0ttie (@finewinetay) August 16, 2019
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Constantly picking the sassy queen in red is how I knew I was gay pic.twitter.com/Q6lg0W6OGj
— Savi (@CultOwner) August 2, 2019
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I knew I was gay when I realized that I enjoyed hanging out with my straight friend's mom more than with him
— m!ssundaztood (@konnobollo) May 9, 2019
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I knew I was gay when I chose a bunk bed over a single bed so I could sleep on the BOTTOM bunk.
— Bhizer? (@mhlauli_a) July 30, 2019
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Seeing Harrison ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark was when I knew I was gay and I’m not at all ashamed to admit that https://t.co/oSGXMafN4k
— Grunge Goddess (@_Grunge_Goddess) March 12, 2019
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I knew I was gay when I discovered M83 from a Victoria’s Secret commercial because the boobs were not keeping my attention
— toph baefong (@gayearthbender) August 1, 2019
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when I was younger I used to only eat the edges of pop tarts and that’s when I knew I was gay
— 20piece (@CrushCrushRush) August 6, 2019
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This. THIS was the definitive moment when I knew I was a gay male. https://t.co/TD7NYCu0bY
— AZTN ?? (@IAMAZTN) August 20, 2019
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i knew i was gay when i ‘jokingly’ asked my straight friend if i could suck his dick and he said sure https://t.co/7KL4zmzjBP
— alejandro ? (@alejandrosilvva) July 23, 2019
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I knew I was gay when I was 5 and Chris Evans came out in nothing but whip cream, cherries, and a banana in Not Another Teen Movie
— Cristina Yang stan account (@dickgirIdiaries) August 19, 2019
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you know how some people point to a movie and are like man that’s when I knew I was gay
this was the opposite, I saw this when I was 5 and was like “I am at least a LITTLE bit straight” pic.twitter.com/CLGxOcwQGQ
— Tres Dean wrote a book about The Rock preorder it (@treswritesstuff) August 8, 2019
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I knew I was gay when I’d spend a little extra time in the underwear isle staring at the underwear models. #Confession
— Aminø Black (@AminoBlvck) July 28, 2019
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I knew I was gay when I was 13 (sorry ex girlfriends I’ve ever had. I knew then and that’s why it never worked)
— [J A S O N] (@Jason_Zerkle) July 29, 2019
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mum asking me when and how i knew i was gaypic.twitter.com/ohUi7lQWxl
— so i'm judy jetson hookah?? (@poketal) August 11, 2019
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i knew i was gay when i was singing nelly furtado’s part in promiscuous girl
— psyduck (@keathledger) July 26, 2019
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other than being attracted to guys, i knew i was gay when i could get anywhere faster than google maps estimated. ?
— hot boy b (@brienwil) April 10, 2019
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i knew i was gay when i stole a lipsmacker from walmart @ age 6 https://t.co/W8DsXokWrX
— 3 (@Cunter_E) May 20, 2019
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GayEGO
I knew I liked guys right after I was born in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. I used to feel a warmth coming from guys and I remember a guy and his girlfriend or wife standing next to the crib I was in at the hospital where I was born. My dad did taxes for other guys who would sit in a chair next to my dad’s desk at home. After the guys left, I would crawl to the chair they sat in and feel the warmth! I had a crush on a boy when I was 5 years old, and later on I fooled around with boys I met in school. I did not even know the word gay until I was in the Navy and was in Washington D.C. where I found out about gay bars.
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chrispy33
I knew I was gay when I was in kindergarten. The teacher use to send two boys into a one-toilet bathroom before every lunch to hurry things up. I would position myself in line so that I would be sent into the bathroom with only the cuties boys. I think that was a pretty good clue.
jar23666
Well, I consensual gay sex as early as 9 (1973). But I really knew I was gay when I shoplifted Playgirl magazines off the rack in the late 1970s and not caught. Get this—I had anal side: I see to put the centerfolds in a three ring loose-leaf binder.
Celtic
I knew I was “gay” long before that word referred to homosexuals. I am a kid from the ’50’s, born in the mid-40’s. Around age 5 I would experience a deep inner thrill whenever I saw a nice man butt. I started out as an ass man and I am STILL an ass man!!! There terms used to describe gay men at the time: “Light in his loafers”; He is so “musical”; “Queer”; He’s a bit “Sweet”.
CenterRight
There must be something frightfully wrong with you when you have impure and indecent thoughts at the age of 5? No wonder I believe the younger generation is more wholesome and healthy than the 60s yuppies and 70’s promiscuous sl*ts.
JanDivine
I think it’s so interesting that we assume that children have no concept of sex. As we grow older, we are socialized that it is bad, wrong, sinful, and not to be spoken of. I knew I was gay when I was gay when I was three, understood the ramifications when I was five, I learned that at church. I knew I was one of those people they were talking about.
ZUMMY
@CenterRight And did you realize you were gay when all those promiscuous yuppies and s**ts give you the vapors and you had to collapse onto your fainting couch with a big frilly fan?
StudMuffin
I was born in 1941 and I had the same feelings when the milkman delivered the milk. I would stand at the door staring at him while rubbing my talllywhacker. I was five years old then.
When I was 10, I taught a couple of other boys how to beat off.
David Myers
@CenterRight: You’re a TROLL aren’t you! How dare you judge and try to shame and put down the natural feelings of kids? Begone TROLL . . . you have no power here!
curiobi
I don’t think this troll is even gay, he’s just here to complain about sex under different screen names. You can always tell who he is because he has a melt down about sex every time, and has been known to offer Jesus as a solution. If only he took his advice and let Jesus take the wheel, then he’d be in a ditch somewhere and we could get some peace feom his constant trolling!
djmcgamester
I knew I liked men (or boys at that time) when I was under the age of 10. The whole gay concept (in relationship to me) didn’t occur to me until I was 21. As soon as I understood I came out.
JanDivine
I knew I was gay when I was three years old. My brother took me to see Twenty thousand Leagues Under the Sea at the local theater. OMG !! There was no question what I liked.
Doug
My parents took me to see “Sleeping Beauty” when I was probably 4 or 5 and looking back, I was only focused on Prince Charming, not the princess. At that age I couldn’t put the feelings into words, but I remember being fascinated by him.
Wolfie
I knew I was gay when at 9 yrs old. I was watching a porn video and was more interested in c**k than p***y and t*ts
I proved it 2 wks later when sleeping over @ a friend’s and using the bathroom. His 16yo brother came in and started peeing next to me. When he finished I put it in my mouth.
ricdardc1
as a child a boy got behind my chair in school & started dry humping me from behind. everybody laughed but for me it felt so right. Then there was Cinderella with Leslie Ann Warren, & wishing I could get Stuart Damon.. also I grew up as a teenager with David Cassidy’s…. V.P.L. Bulge & Michael Landon’s …..V.P.L. Bulge & Lucas McCain, & Ron Ely as Tarzan. But the Topper was believe it or not I made a full length Sister Bertrille, costume & wore it in the back yard & stood on a chair and jumped so my family could see me flying. (Gay) as Momma would say What’s a Girl to do in times like these.
Hussain-TheCanadian
Jesus people, what is this I “knew” when i was 5,8,10 nonsense, children usually dont know until they hit puberty.
I knew when I was 14, my gym teacher was extremely handsome, mr Allen…..I told myself i liked him as a “big bro”…. it wasn’t until i kissed him when i was 17 that i actually came out to myself.
Ofcourse he was horrified because im the one who kissed him. He was straight, he just married his girlfriend. He was my first male kiss, and thanks to him I admitted to myself that I’m gay.
Rey
Just because you haven’t experienced something doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. The people that are saying how they knew what they liked at a young age they don’t mean in a sexual way, it’s exactly like how heterosexual kids know they like the opposite gender. I knew I liked girls when I was as little as 6.
Hermes
I certainly knew at 8 that I was attracted to boys and not girls in any way. I did not know it was sexual until I was 11, and I didn’t have sex until 13, but I fully knew that boys were special and girls were not to me at 8.
Just saying.
baggins435
Crushing on Jonny Quest, Ron Ely as Tarzan in his Speedo size loin cloth, every DIsney teen boy and our teen boy neighbors in grade school. Had no clue about “gay”, it was in the late ’60s. I knew enough to know I was going to have to be careful when I got to Jr High gym with the group showers, even if I was looking forward to it.
batesmotel
I knew I was bi when I had a strong affection for two friends of mine, one was a girl and the other was a boy. Then when I was ten having strong sexual fantasies over my friends mom and dad. They were hot rockers in their thirties and so attractive with great personalities.
Rey
Did you hit puberty before 10?
Scorpjr
Jonny Quest for sure – Race was a hottie for a cartoon character! Also, Cameo’s “Word Up” live performance on Soul Train.
David Myers
When I was 10 my allowance was 25 cents and the cost of a matinee at the local movie theater was also 25 cents (a long long time ago). I went to the Saturday matinee every week for quite some time and got to watch many consecutive episodes of “Batman and Robin”. I realized at the time that I really really liked looking at Robin’s bare thighs. It was many year’s later that I was crushed to find out they weren’t bare thighs, but rather thighs in tights (the tights were flesh coloured, in my defense). 😉
Kerry
I knew that I liked boys instead of girls in the 4th grade, because of this beautiful, blond-haired, blue-eyed boy who sat beside of me in class. I could never get enough of looking at him and longed for him to invite me to his house for a sleepover. I had a crush on him all through my school years.
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I was 8 before I was 7…