Comments on: Friday Staff Survey: Friday Staff Survey: When Did You Know?

By: Soap Dispenser

Soap Dispenser — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 07:52:45 +0000

Tim McGraw is one of the best albums of Taylor Swift, love yah taylor,::

By: Hannah Hall

Hannah Hall — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 04:56:14 +0000

i love the Tim McGraw album of Taylor Swift, nice songs, nice album’~:

By: Madison Brown

Madison Brown — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:08:13 +0000

I love Taylor Swift and Tim McGraw album, Taylor has great song and she is pretty too.::-

By: Rivka

Rivka — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:24:14 +0000

I went through uber-religious schooling, where homosexuality was not mentioned. I actually managed to read a book with a gay protagonist (Mercedes lackey’s ‘Last Herald-Mage’ series) and lump the wonderful idea that two people of the same gender could have sex in with talking white horses and magic portals – only possible in the worlds inside books.
Then, freshman year of college, I stumbled across two of my male friends kissing, and those two wonderful men sat me down and had ‘the talk’ with me. (Richard, Edward, if you’re out there, thanks!) It was such a relief to know I wasn’t asexual or frigid – that those weird feelings I had for women were sexual attraction. I had assumed that they were just really intense ‘friendship crushes’.
Now I classify myself as ‘almost lesbian – I am attracted to some men, but it’s really rare.’ And my father still thinks it’s a phase.

By: Raphael

Raphael — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:36:00 +0000

What’s amazing is that if you read these testimonials, you often have no idea the gender of the writer, and they sound just like any other person thinking back to their awakening sexuality.

There are a few things going on here–1) recognizing your own awakening sexuality (which for many of us occurs very young), and 2) realizing that our attractions made us “different” from other kids.

I think for many of us, we figure out both things at the same time, but clearly some people make the realizations at different points in their lives.

By: A-Ron

A-Ron — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:09:00 +0000

I've had crushes on boys since 2nd grade. But it didn't hit me until 1998, when I met my first love.

My first summer away from anyone I knew at all, I was taken to Notre Dame by a new acquaintance. That night, at dinner...I met Matt. From moment #1...we were throwing one-liners into the dinner conversation that were directed at each other. No one noticed but us. We discovered by talking in such code that we both wanted to know more. So I faked food illness to hang out with him later that night. We chatted, looked through his photo albums and eventually...I got my very own first kiss.

As a result of that weekend, we both became each other's first love. And to this day, we still have a date when we're in our retirements to drink beer on a porch in the hot summer wind while reflecting on our separate lives.

I didn't know what gay was yet, so I didn't identify myself by it. I just knew that I'd found love. It scared the living shit out of me, gave me better blood flow than I've ever had...and everyone I get a crush on is compared in some way to him along the way.

A-Ron

By: officesupplygeek

officesupplygeek — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:47:00 +0000

Corey – wow.

Did anyone ever watch The Wonder Years? I had a mega crush on Winnie Cooper. So I guess I was six or so when the thought first crossed my head… still it took countless girl crushes, some sexual experimentation, and many wasted years and missed opportunities to figure out that meant GAY.

By: Tim Gunn

Tim Gunn — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:36:00 +0000

i remember watching ‘the blue lagoon’ over and over with my younger brother on hbo. two scenes stand out; the one where chris atkins was swimming naked and you could just barely see his junk, and the second, where he was making fun of brook shields’ boobs with coconuts. i knew i did not want those coconuts. i’m still not a big fan of coconut, but i think women’s breasts are cool!

By: threadtoseam

threadtoseam — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:07:00 +0000

after a jazzercise session in my parents’ long time friend’s living room, their daughter and i went upstairs to put on makeup. she suggested we make out in the closet, leotards and all.
we were 7 and left no sequence behind (NSLB act of 1992).

i discovered i liked guys around the same age while building a fort with my dream boat neighbor.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:34:00 +0000

I messed around in the Boy Scouts and told myself it was just because I was a horny lad. And then I fell in love with the German exchange student that lived with us and told myself that was in love with him, not that I was gay. But once I started having sex dreams about totally random dudes, it was pretty hard to keep living in denial.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:31:00 +0000

I was a good little baptist boy growing up and like all good baptists, I could deny the truth with revival like fervor. All the signs were there: rushing through my gym workouts to go to the locker rooms and check out the guys fresh from the showers, reading Men’s Health magazine for the (cough) articles, watching BET and marveling at the god-like abs of Usher, or watching CMT for Tim McGraw’s “Everywhere” video.

But my aha moment came when I was 20. I was sitting on the beach with 5 other guys in front of a bon fire and one of them asked, “do y’all know anyone who’s gay?” and for some reason, the little voice inside me said, “you all do. it’s me.” and then I went upstairs and the coming out episode of Ellen came on the t.v.

So that’s how I realized I was gay: a bonfire comment and Ellen Degeneres.

By: Hans B.

Hans B. — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:03:00 +0000

When I was 8 my best friend at the time and I were trawling through his father’s impressive collection of Playboy and Penthouse. It was the first time I could remember seeing porn (my parents are prudes and this was a few years before the internet went mainstream). I had flipped through a few Playboys, which are female-only if I remember correctly, and then David tossed me a Penthouse, which have a guy or two thrown in every once in a while. I flipped through that one for a bit and landed on a pic of a well hung latino. I just stopped and thought, “wow…”

By: kuhnsy

kuhnsy — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:14:00 +0000

Hindsight IS always 20/20 and now I can look back and see all my first crushes and turn-ons for what they are. But the day that I came out to myself was the day that I finally got tired of daily praying that I was only bisexual (even in denial I knew something was up) and not a gay (I really wanted to breed with my wife/husband). “Fine,” I said to God, “You decide!” then I opened two tabs and in one I googled images of “lesbians” and in the other I googled images of “hunks.” Then I sat back and observed which tab made my blood flow south. That was two weeks before my 19th birthday and seven weeks after moving out my homophobic home.

By: Mikey

Mikey — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:46:00 +0000

5th grade gym class. Watching that cutie Matt do like a hundred pull-ups without breaking a sweat after the rest of the guys could barely do five. That's when it finally occurred to me that I wasn't just appreciating his.. uhm.. athleticism. Then I found my dad's stack of Men's Health mags and tucked a few under my mattress for safe keeping.

Of course, looking back, it was obvious. I remember it being maybe my 4th birthday party and one of my friends mom was changing his shirt for him, and ooh yeah.. that was cool.

And the earliest TV commercial that I can remember, circa 1990, was those Bowflex ads with the big biceps and pecs. Always loved those guys.

By: landoftrolls

landoftrolls — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:12:00 +0000

My religion wouldn’t allow me to accept the label “gay”. I was attracted to men, even had had sex with them, but I called it an aberration, an accident of opportunity, a phase – anything but gay. Then one night I was contemplating the whole situation, and it hit me like a bolt out of the blue – God doesn’t make junk, I was born gay, therefore I was created to be gay, and that was a good thing. I was 30 years old at the time.