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It sounds like such a simple qutn, but fdg the answer n be so much trickier than you might thk. Why? Bee 's a qutn only you n answer. You n't ask a teacher or a parent or your bt iend or Google or even Seventeen and get a "y" or a "no." And while would be so nice to shake a magic 8 ball and get some clary here, 's actually ccial for you to e to the answer all on your own.</p><p data-no-id="1" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Here are some thgs to keep md if you're thkg you might be gay:</p><style data-emotn="css 10bmbge">{font-fay:GTWalsheim,Helveti,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;marg-bottom:0.625rem;marg-top:0.625rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.625rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.75rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:1.875rem;le-height:1.1;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><h2 data-no-id="2" class="body-h4 css-10bmbge et3p2gv0">You're not alone.</h2><p data-no-id="3" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">If you're thkg that you might be gay, then know that you have a whole built- support group of wonrful and diverse people who are jt wag to meet you. What's tly betiful about beg the LGBTQ muny is that is so expansive. It clus people of every race and relign. Your body n be any size and you n be gay. You n be disabled and be gay. Everyone is wele to the table, and you're bound to meet some pretty credible humans once you take a seat.</p><h2 data-no-id="5" class="body-h4 css-10bmbge et3p2gv0">It's ok if you don't have answers.</h2><p data-no-id="6" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">There's a huge leap om "I feel a ltle different" to "I'm a mascule-of-center genrqueer gay woman." I remember kissg girls high school, and then llege, but havg boyiends along the way. I kept wag to be h by some bolt of lighteng that would show me that I was unniably, 100%, totally, purely gay. But, tbh, the procs was a lot quieter than that. I kissed girls and I liked , but I still liked guys. And then I actually dated a girl, and I realized that felt the same as datg a guy but better. And then I thought, 'Huh. I mt be gay.' Jt like that. </p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="7" data-embed="edorial-lk" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css qsosw3">{borr:th solid #CDCDCD;marg-top:1.875rem;marg-bottom:1.875rem;paddg:1.25rem;}</style><asi class="css-qsosw3 e6pr2lz5"><style data-emotn="css 1q3cish">{display:block;font-weight:bold;marg:0rem;font-fay:GTWalsheim,Helveti,sans-serif;font-size:0.875rem;le-height:1.2;letter-spacg:0.05rem;text-transform:upperse;}</style><h6 class="css-1q3cish e6pr2lz3"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css 8lle59">{max-width:lc(100% - 120px - .625rem);}</style><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">Related Story</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></h6><style data-emotn="css c4s2gi">{paddg:0rem;marg:0rem;list-style:none;}</style><ul class="css-c4s2gi e6pr2lz4"><style data-emotn="css 1uquqpo">{borr-bottom:none;lor:#000000;font-fay:GTWalsheim,Helveti,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;marg-bottom:0.3125rem;paddg-top:0.9375rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.125rem;le-height:1.3;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{font-size:1rem;le-height:1.3;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:1.125rem;le-height:1.3;}} a{-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;lor:her;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;} a:hover{lor:#595959;}</style><li class="css-1uquqpo e6pr2lz2"><style data-emotn="css 1bn7a5e">{-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-box-flex-wrap:wrap;-webk-flex-wrap:wrap;-ms-flex-wrap:wrap;flex-wrap:wrap;-webk-flex-directn:row;-ms-flex-directn:row;flex-directn:row;-webk-box-pack:start;-ms-flex-pack:start;-webk-jtify-ntent:flex-start;jtify-ntent:flex-start;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;}</style><a href="/celebry/g27228640/bisexual-celebri/" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="29 Celebri Who Have Come Out as Bisexual" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Edorial Lks" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" class="css-1bn7a5e e1c1bym14"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css 1l0u1">{marg-right:0.625rem;height:to;}</style><img src="" alt="bisexual celebri" tle="29 Celebri Who Have Come Out as Bisexual" width="120" height="100%" dg="async" loadg="lazy" image-align="left" class="css-1l0u1 e6pr2lz0" /><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">29 Celebri Who Have Come Out as Bisexual</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></a></li></ul></asi></div><p data-no-id="8" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">And you know what? The world didn't end and I didn't feel like a totally different person — I jt felt like I had taken a small step towards who I tly am si. And that feels good. And ever sce that day, there have been a ln more steps as I've acquired more language to scribe myself and my inty. As long as you're listeng to yourself, you n't go wrong.</p><h2 data-no-id="9" class="body-h4 css-10bmbge et3p2gv0">Your feelgs might change, and they might not.</h2><p data-no-id="10" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Comg out for the first time n feel so fal, but 's actually not the end ('s jt the begng!). You're gog to e out so much the urse of your life ( llege, on dat, when you meet new people, etc.), and each time you do, you get to fe where you are wh your inty that moment.</p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="11" data-embed="edorial-lk" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><asi class="css-qsosw3 e6pr2lz5"><h6 class="css-1q3cish e6pr2lz3"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">Related Story</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></h6><ul class="css-c4s2gi e6pr2lz4"><li class="css-1uquqpo e6pr2lz2"><a href="/life/g32577915/lgbtq-pri-flags/" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Celebrate Pri Month Wh 21 LGBTQ+ Pri Flags" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Edorial Lks" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" class="css-1bn7a5e e1c1bym14"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><img src="" alt="pri flags" tle="Celebrate Pri Month Wh 21 LGBTQ+ Pri Flags" width="120" height="100%" dg="async" loadg="lazy" image-align="left" class="css-1l0u1 e6pr2lz0" /><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">Celebrate Pri Month Wh 21 LGBTQ+ Pri Flags</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></a></li></ul></asi></div><p data-no-id="12" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">And, while we're on the topic, cut yourself a ltle slack the g out partment, ok? 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I'm a straight 20-year-old girl who lately n't get the ia out of my head that I wish I'd been born a gay boy stead.

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KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

* i am gay but i like a girl *

The first time I talked to him (you know, when I wasn't sanely attracted to him), I thought for sure he was gay based on the way he was movg his arms and talkg.

I'M A STRAIGHT GIRL, BUT WISH I WERE A GAY GUY...

Democratic printial ndidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls. * i am gay but i like a girl *

The people around me cludg my mother lls me "half ladi" but the fact that my newer classmat, wh whom ive met jt 3 months ago, ll me gay for my style of walkg and for my personaly is ncerng me. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a woman.He said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough".He said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'".When Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3,000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance blossomed.Three years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos".He relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife."Danny Beard on Same Sex Love and MarriageDanny explor same-sex weddgs, fdg out why upl chose to get married, the challeng unrpng this cisn and what mak the wedd relatnships work.The uple said they now wanted to help people who were not as ee and strive for "equaly for everyone"."Now I'm here a safe place I want to fight for others to be able to marry who they want," Adam said."I'm so lucky but I want everyone else Sdi to marry the one they love whout facg discrimatn and persecutn." Image source, Fay photographImage ptn, Peter McGrah and David Cabreza say they are "very proud" to have been the first same-sex uple married EnglandMore than 40,000 same-sex marriag took place between 2014 and 2020, acrdg to the Office for Natnal StatisticsPeter McGrah and David Cabreza, origally om Stland and the US, ma history when they beme the first same-sex uple to marry England on 29 March 2014.The trailblazers married jt after midnight at Islgton Town Hall.

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage"."It was so sweet seeg him so happy," Mr Cabreza said. Most people who want to change sex I assume are not feelg like they want to be a homosexual versn of the oppose genr, right?

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Are you a girl who has a real csh on another girl, but n't seem to get her to notice that you're terted? Don't worry, loads of girls have this problem. Sometim you're unfortable wh intifyg yourself as gay, or don't want... * i am gay but i like a girl *

Though "gay-for-pay" impli that the scen are done by straight men, often wh an unrtone of beg forced or erced to male/male sexual activi out of speratn, we n't actually know the sexual orientatn of the performers om watchg alone. You asked if people who transn genrs often aim to be a "homosexual versn of the oppose genr", and the answer is, yeah, sometim! To clarify, trans folks (folks who whatever way do not intify wh the genr assigned at birth) n be any and all sexual orientatns: straight, gay, bi, queer, pansexual, heteroflexible, whatever.

I'M A GAY GUY, BUT THERE'S THIS GIRL....

Girls, n't ci whether you're straight (bee you dig guys) or gay (bee you seem to like girls, too) then you might be bisexual. Try this tt & see! * i am gay but i like a girl *

I'm not suggtg that you necsarily are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr, but the folks that staff the Trevor Project hotle are well-versed genr issu and may be good rourc if your prsn is feelg out of ntrol. Has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls. The basels claim that chemils – particularly tap water – uld turn people gay has gaed populary wh nspiracy theorists over the years, most memorably wh nservative rad host Alex Jon, who said chemils the water were “turng the igg’ ogs gay.

Fally, when I get the mdset and nfince to say I'm fully gay, I meet this betiful, sweet, hilar, and hontly perfect girl who I nnect wh wicked well.

Tell her that you want to date her, you've intified as gay, but that you're wantg to explore your sexualy more, and you want her to be aware of that. 1Tell a slightly appropriate joke about gays or lbians and watch for a reactn (don't get too nasty, you're jt tryg to gge the rponse).

HELP! I’M NOT GAY, BUT I DON’T LIKE THE THGS THAT OTHER GUYS MY AGE LIKE.

Straight women get om gay men what they don't get om straight men. * i am gay but i like a girl *

What you're tryg to do is terme if she's bigoted or has a negative feelg about gays general, or if she seems to be okay wh everythg. Is morally wrong to e my iend to like me (she do but, feels guilty dog so) bee we are a relig stutn where homosexualy isn't allowed? But to actually be lockg ey wh Ellen and hold her, shakg hands as she said, "I'm gay, " on natnal televisn and for the first time, as she has shared outloud that way publicly, was such a profoundly extraordary and timate gift to that moment that I will forever be grateful for.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

Are you qutng your sexualy? Fd out if you’re gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. Learn what the terms mean and if they apply to you. * i am gay but i like a girl *

Bulli often pick on kids who don’t f the social norm at school — kids who aren’t the same race or relign as most people school; who are, or appear to be, lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr; who are “too fat” or “too skny”; who don’t like the same mic as other kids or don’t wear the “right” cloth; or kids who simply appear to be troubled or different some way.

WHY STRAIGHT WOMEN ARE ATTRACTED TO GAY MEN

Here are some thgs to keep md if you're thkg you might be gay... * i am gay but i like a girl *

If you've been wonrg about your sexualy a lot recently, like me, but n't figure out whether you're straight (bee you do like guys) or gay (bee you seem to like girls, too) then you might be bisexual. Keep md that even if you have a sexual experience wh someone of the same genr or another genr, that don’t necsarily mean that you’re gay. That means, for example, that you n be transgenr but also straight (for stance, you might intify as a woman and feel attracted to men) or gay (e.

If you have had romantic experienc or fantasi volvg people who are the same genr as you, then there is a good chance you are gay or bisexual, but 's okay if you're a ltle nfed. For the most part, relatnships between gay men and straight women are healthy and posive, wh one exceptn I'll get to later.

AM I GAY?

Do beg terted receptive anal sex mean a guy is gay? * i am gay but i like a girl *

Sure, an ocsnal teenage girl falls for a boy who's gay, but don't take most girls very long to figure out that, this se, where there's smoke, there's most fely not fire. In general, the attractn women feel for gay men tends to be emotnal nature, clearg the way for a highly satisfyg relatnship that outlasts most other relatnships gay men and straight women have.

HER BOYIEND ISN'T GAY OR BI BUT HE IS SUCKG DICKS GLORY HOL

Men beg attracted to another man emotnally, physilly, and mentally are known as gays. Fd out if you're gay wh our quiz. * i am gay but i like a girl *

To beg, I'll addrs how and why straight women are emotnally attracted to gay men—an attractn, by the way, that is returned by gay men spas. Send, straight women love gay men bee closens wh gay men provis a wdow to how the mds of men work, somethg that women want to know as they navigate datg waters wh their straight male peers.

Though there are, of urse, differenc between straight and gay men, gay men are neverthels men who share many characteristics and motivatns wh straight men. When to the sexualy of young straight and gay men—meang, how equently they thk about sex, want , or feel impatient to get to the actual sex part—there are undoubtedly siari. When a straight woman hangs out wh a gay man, she begs to put the puzzle together that men, general, treat sex differently than women do.

In general, gay men, and gay women, too, tend to be more fearls than their straight unterparts—particularly straight men—bee they’ve ually experienced bullyg and prejudice bee of their sexual orientatn. As out adults, gay men ually learn to accept themselv and stop tryg so hard to w the approval and acceptance of others. Meanwhile, gay men have the social license to be as outrageo or emotnal as they want to be bee gay men don't have to f to such a tightly prcribed role.

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The group of women I’m referrg to are often lled "f*g hags, " a term that manag to be rogatory toward two groups: women and gay men. Instead, they feel more fortable removg the sexual factor that exists at straight bars and prefer the harmlsns that wh socializg wh gay men gay surroundgs. This type of relatnship is often unhealthy, wh women choosg gay men as iends for superficial reasons: bee they're more fun and love to shop.

Siarly, their gay male iends often treat their female iends as social accsori until the men fd a guy to hook up wh up later the night. If straight women and gay men foc on fdg iendships where there's te emotnal patibily and rpect, they n velop one of the most rewardg relatnships a person uld have. Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr.

—and we n sometim sense early on that somethg about our ternal experience feels the fifth gra, when a iend of me sneered that I was gay as an sult, I thought maybe I had land on a name for what I felt. Eventually, this led me the oppose directn of what you might assume: My sexual boredom and sometim even disgt wh the men I dated led me to believe I was, and always had been, super gay after, my early 20s, I threw myself a new directn and got eply volved my lol queer muny. I tried donng a “homoflexible” label for a few years, but two boyiends later I had to s back and take a good look at my inty and why my perceptn of kept shiftg seemgly so I didn’t unrstand as I tried on the different labels was that isn’t simply our behavr that dictat who we are.

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Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

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There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". Even if the girl is a proud and open lbian, that don't mean that she'd want to kiss any girl who her path jt bee she's gay, and that's cludg you.

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The basels claim that chemils – particularly tap water – uld turn people gay has gaed populary wh nspiracy theorists over the years, most memorably wh nservative rad host Alex Jon, who said chemils the water were “turng the igg’ ogs gay.”. They have a database of thoands of support groups and other rourc for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer or qutng youth. Beg gay means that you get csh on people of your genr, and beg transgenr means that your genr don't match your assigned sex.

However, the amount that he jok about beg gay, givg blowjobs, etc., mak me thk he might be gay or bisexual and is g to terms wh his sexualy. I wouldn't have any problems wh this—I dated women for ten years prr to him—but he emphatilly swears he's straight and often pots out that he don't like gay porn, he don't like to see gay men beg affectnate, etc.

But sure, GLORY, this may be a fetishistic sire on your boyiend's part or he uld be the tit b bisexual and this is how your boyiend exprs his ty b of bisexualy and only his unrolved homophobia/biphobia prevents him om nceivg of himself as bisexual. But the fact your boyiend don't like to see gay men beg affectnate smacks ls of, "Not gay or bi, not at all gay or bi, nothg to see here, " and more of, "Internalized homophobia and other issu and possibly bi or maybe even gay.

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So while I want to acknowledge the existence, the lived experience, and the validy of straight boys who like to suck ck but who are no other way attracted to men, this tail—your boyiend's disfort around gay men—uld be a sign that somethg else is gog on wh him.

It was a shty, selfish thg to do and you have a right to be angry about , GLORY, and you aren't obligated to put up wh this sh jt bee he's explorg his sexualy or stgglg wh ternalized homophobia/biphobia. > Wrong Si Of Wild SiGive yourself a break,, y: you did the gayt thg a guy n do—you allowed someone to put a dick your man butt—but now you’re dog the send-gayt thg a guy n do.

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Be a man about this—be a straight man about this—and walk off, as the football ach this will help: like a lot of gay men, I had sex wh a woman before I me out. Bee you’re not gay, WSOWS, and one ri on a trans rt’s dick n’t change nothg I’ve said has ma you feel better, WSOWS, maybe this will: gay men don’t hire trans women sex workers.

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What we’re all after is our gayns n’t be fed solely by dick, WSOWS, then surely your straightns n’t be undone entirely by dick. For a picture of the ner workgs of a gay throuple, TRIOS, check out Molly Young’s profile of one New York magaze’s most recent “Sex Issue”. But do really make a difference if they are straight or gay, if at the end of the day they are someone who is not attracted to you?

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