Gay things you did as a kid..

[hazyinseptember]

hey peoples

something chris t just said reminded me of when i was a kid and the silly thing you do..

when i was a child around 7-8 i was constantly taking the clothes/armour/whatever off my he-man dolls.. so i could see their bodys :) of course you couldnt take off their loincloth thing to see thier bits, that was moulded onto the toy..

but i remember stealing my sisters ken doll constantly, ken didnt have any moulded bits of clothing and you could undress him right down to his flat panel of skin where his bits used to be..

this could make me a sicko.. ;) but i think its a pretty normal thing for a gay kid to be doing.. ( or possibly a straight kid too )

so my question is.. did anyone else do something that, looking back now, they feel marked those early signs of faggotry ( or dykeness ) ? :D

[jackie87]

whenever we had male family friends and guests over at our pool I always tried to pull their speedos off, sometimes it worked others put up a good struggle. Nevertheless, it cringes me to still look these people in the eye today!

[Christian Taylor]

Oh my god - this is the BEST thread ever. I love this - what a great idea. there are som any gay things i did as a child. here are some [HEAVILY EDITED] highlights:

- i stuck balloons up my shirt and danced infront of my entire family to sabrina's "boys boys boys". i was like, 10 years old.

- i was glued to the screen whenever Xanadu was televised.

- i also tried to disrobe he-man and gi joe. i remember mother being concerned at how much i played with my sisters' barbie dolls, so she bought me a g.i. joe, and i still remember the terrified look on her face when i went to her and said, "i can't get his underpants to come off."

- i had my photo taken with a cardboard cut out of kylie minogue at grundy world on the gold coast.

- ummm... there may or may not have been some sexual liaisons with my childhood friends in year 5. i recall sharing the bed with my friend chris one night during an innocent sleepover, and in the morning his sister walked in on us naked singing to "phantom of the opera".

that's all i am permitted to say at this time. if i think of anymore i'll be sure to post them!

[Tim D]

I love it Christian! Okay, my turn now:

* I had a Rainbow Bright doll that I carried around with me, literally, for years. I mean, hello? Frigging RAINBOW! She's the gayest possible doll a boy could ever get obssessed with. I was really into her, would refuse to leave the house until this rainbow thing was in my hands. My god.

* When Halloween came around, my brother and all the kids in the street would dress up as cowboys and punks and stuff. But not me. My sister would help me dress up as a girl. I kinda blame her.

We're kinda easy to pick aren't we? This should come in a manual or something for parents to read..

[meezon04]

What an AWESOME topic!!!

Oh dear God - here we go - diggin' into the memory archives...

*Even though I'm a male, I used to be obsessed with both "Xena, Warrior Princess" and "Captain Planet" - WIND, WATER, FIRE, HEART! Go Planet!

*I used to love dressing up as a girl - in the toybox at my parents place in amongst all the trucks and leggo, there was thus curly-haired wig - which I used to love to wear. I went to school one day in a trenchcoat and that wig, much to the laughter of my classmates

*I was lead role in two high-school musicals, and played the role of 'Bruce The Cable Tosser' in one and one of the Three Musketeers in the other.

*I always preferred to be Juliet rather than Romeo in english class

*Whilse my brothers played fetch with our pet dog, I preferred climbing on the roof of the house and cuddling my pet cats and kittens and protecting them from the evil dog and bitches below

*I was fascinated by mum's musical jewelry box

*The first CASSETTE I ever bought was 'Falling Into You' by Celine.

*The first CD I ever bought was 'Aquarium' by Aqua. The second CD I ever bought was 'Night Club' by Mr President (remember Coco Jamboo?) and the third CD I ever bought was 'We Like To Party' by Vengaboys...Mariah, Shania... *shakes head* - it only gets worse...

*I found dad's erotic books in the cluttered library and flicked straight to the sections where the girl was doing stuff to the guy

Hmmm, shoulda came out earlier hey? :D

[hazyinseptember]

my sisters used to always dress me up..

when i wasnt a member of kiss, or abba, i was in dresses and wiggs..

because of this when my poor younger cousin used to come around i would dress him up in dresses too..

I think this is a pretty normal thing for young boys to do tho, if they are allowed to by the parents.. it was never like i wanted to be a girl :) ( that i can remember )

we used to play this game in primary school were someone had to stand at the front of the class with their eyes closed and someone in the class would say their name.. then the person at the front had to guess who it was..

i remember i used to put on the girlest voice, much to the horror of my male teacher, with shoulder actions and flapping wrists.. very marilyn monroe of me..

the worst thing was everyone would always guess it was me!!

[kylierose]

- i stuck balloons up my shirt and danced infront of my entire family to sabrina's "boys boys boys". i was like, 10 years old.

that's classic! boys boys boys! sabrina looked like she had a couple of baloons stuck up her bikini. wasn't she some kind of model. hate to think what they look like now.............

[ap_bcd]

Good Lord, I could go for days with this topic.

He-Man and G I Joe both used to regularly wear my sisters Barbie Dresses.

I used to fight the girls to wear the old Wedding dress in the dress up box at school when i was 7 or 8

I used to play with my sisters Strawberry Shortcake dolls when she was out of the house.

I got into my grandmothers Blue Rinse and turned my blond hair bright blue once (Mum kicked my arse for getting blue spots on the bathroom walls)

And more than once I dressed up in Mum's makeup and my Grandmothers costume jewelery (again getting my arse kicked when i broke the lipstick). But i looked great with blue eye-shaddow and hot pink lips with the diamontee tiara.

I've never done drag, I'm terrified of mum kicking my arse again.

[alison87]

I think the gayest thing i ever did was cry when the Pet Shop Boys dropped out of the top 40 so i couldn't hear them on Top Of The Pops any more :(

[genkij]

oh ! oh oh wait ......



................... oh ...hang on.........

[genkij]

well .... for a start playin' "Doctors n Doctors" @ age 7 .....
....... he went on to "work in the thea-tre" inlondon - Nuff said .....


a row of tents - i'm tellin ya !


More to follow.

[ap_bcd]

So Genkij Who corrupted who, I mean who was the specialist and who was the GP????

[genkij]

we took turns with the treatment !!

[Christian Taylor]

I love it Christian! Okay, my turn now:

* I had a Rainbow Bright doll that I carried around with me, literally, for years. I mean, hello? Frigging RAINBOW! She's the gayest possible doll a boy could ever get obssessed with. I was really into her, would refuse to leave the house until this rainbow thing was in my hands. My god.

that is PRICELESS. i used to get up early to watch rainbow bright too. my sister had a scented strawberry shortcake figurine that i was quite fond of...

[Christian Taylor]

that's classic! boys boys boys! sabrina looked like she had a couple of baloons stuck up her bikini. wasn't she some kind of model. hate to think what they look like now.............

i am sure she must use bulldog clips to keep those beasts in place these days.

[Tristianity]

Hmmm, oh yes...

When i was about 6 i had one of those "hello kitty" cool pencil cases where everything would shoot out.

I never had the joy of owning he-man or g.i. joe instead mum only bought me transformers or teenage mutant ninja turtles. I did however have Power Ranger dolls where i would make the two male ones get it on.

At primary school athletic carnivals, since i wasn't the competitive one i used to play "who shot diana ross", i would always play Diana Ross (dressed up in the sport house's flag of course). Still hilarious when i look back on it now.

My first cassette ever bought was by Peter Andre...

On book day back in primary school (you had to dress up as a book character), i went dressed as a cat. complete with my mums hair band.

[danny corvini]

I put an ad in "BOP Magazine" (does anyone remember that?) in the penpals, and said I loved Chad Allen. As it turns out, he's gay now too..

[Zakalwe]

I refused to play sport and much to my sport mad parents chagrin, did Speech and Drama, and Jazz Ballet instead.

[PawPrints]

I was always more of a boy than either of my brothers. OK, one is gay, but the other is as butch as they come. (He thinks anyway)

I'd get into scraps with boys. Always had the scabby, bloodied knees. Splashed through creeks, climbed trees, snapped the heads off any dolls given to me, kicked the footy around, explored other little girls (You know. You show me yours, I'll show you mine game), wanted to grow up to be a police officer, played professional softball, HATED dresses. I think all that pretty much indicated where I was heading! :rolleyes:

[Cheetah77]

hehe this thread is brilliant!

My first two cassettes I ever got given (i asked for them) were Madonna's Like A Virgin and The Bangles A Different Light... first two records were Culture Club's Colour by Numbers and Bananarama - WOW.

I once threw a temper tantrum at the snow because my ski boots didn't match my outfit.

Like Paw Prints (and probably everyone else as well), i played "Show me yours, I'll show you mine" at school.. . earliest recollection was Year 1 and me and Matthew someone, would take turns looking under the table as the other would pop their dick out the leg of their shorts...

I've always had long eyelashes so family friends would always put their make up on me... Dad walking into their bedroom and finding me with rainbow eyeshadow and lippy.

My cousin and I used to do shows in front of the tele when YTT was on... I would be Kylie and she was Danni...

Hmmm, what else?

[Cheetah77]

Tristianity - I forgot to ask what "Who Shot Diana Ross" entails? I'm fascinated...

[meezon04]

oh I seriously cannot stop laughing... this is briliant... keep em coming please :D

[Christian Taylor]

Like Paw Prints (and probably everyone else as well), i played "Show me yours, I'll show you mine" at school.. . earliest recollection was Year 1 and me and Matthew someone, would take turns looking under the table as the other would pop their dick out the leg of their shorts...

i know this is childhood, but even still, this sounds totally hot.
why didn't my friends play this game at school?

[Tristianity]

Tristianity - I forgot to ask what "Who Shot Diana Ross" entails? I'm fascinated...

To complicated to explain on this forum.

[Mr Azza]

I am the eldest in my family, so there were no "she used to dress me up" action for me... however... My mum and I would often go and do 'feminine' things together, like get facials (*cough* I was 9 when I had my first), help her buy/choose clothes, get to stay up late and watch 90210 with her (RIP tuesday nights a bitch)

I also had a friend in primary school who was quite partial to a bit of "i'll show you mine, if you show me yours"... I always wonder how he turned out...

LOL, I remember this xmas party I went to, one of those massive corporate ones where every kid gets a present. I won some prize and had to go up on the stage and choose something to take home, my parents were trying to tell me to get the bike (this monolythic 6 speed malvin-star) but instead, I came back with one of those hidious 1m high dolls... ha ha, I was in so much trouble LOL

Oh, and did I mention I did drama, tap and jazz lessons for almost 7 years!?

[Sukott]

I think I was blessed with remarkably tolerant, forward thinking parents (I prefer to think this way, otherwise I was just a spoiled only child who got nearly everything he asked for...)

For two years in a row at christmas I received cabbage patch dolls. My first born was Lucas Lester and my second, Narelle Hilda (She was an astronaut cabbage patch, complete with space suit and moon boots).

But beyond that, the first year I owned Lucas Lester, one of my neighbour's parents sewed a school sports uniform for him. And made me an Easter bonnet for him. So, yes, at the Easter hat parade that year, I paraded around the quadrangle with Lucas under my arm, in his school uniform and bonnet. I'm not sure 'The Shire' was ready for that in the early 80's.

Fond memories.

[Marcel]

My little ponies enough said lol !!

[Tristianity]

But beyond that, the first year I owned Lucas Lester, one of my neighbour's parents sewed a school sports uniform for him. And made me an Easter bonnet for him. So, yes, at the Easter hat parade that year, I paraded around the quadrangle with Lucas under my arm, in his school uniform and bonnet. I'm not sure 'The Shire' was ready for that in the early 80's.

Fond memories.

Ohhh how cute, i remember my easter hat parades at my primary in "the shire"... looking back now it's kinda gay, children walking around the quadrangle with lavish hats. Although i was always smart enough never to attach chocolate eggs to mine (it being in the sun and all). My mum had an obsession with multicoloured cottonwool to attach to my hat.

[Tim D]

Now this is bringing back memories.

Do they still do Easter Parades? Every Easter my mum and I used to get a giant hat and put a rock on one side, and a bread roll on the other. And it would be a "rock and roll" hat. What a pun.

My god, at the time I thought it was the funniest thing in the world. But I swear I brought out the same "rock and roll" hat for about three or four Easter parades in a row. Nothing like recycling a good idea.

Bring back the Easter parade!

[sneakos]

awesome thread!

i used to dress up in mum's high heels and dresses, was obsessed with Miss World and Miss Universe contests and used to wrap towels around my head to mould them inbto 'beautiful, long hair' and 'parade' on the 'catwalk' next to our pool - aged 6 - 7yo

played the usual doctors n nurses with the neighbourhood kids but was only interested in 'operating' on the boys or being 'operated on' by a boy

in primary skool would rather play elastics n skipping with the girls

and when i was bout 10 - 11yo i was completely obsessed with ricky schroeder cos 'The Champ' had just come out and i seen it a couple of times - then my mum told me there was an interview with ricky on the don lane show (i missed it) so i wrote to don asking if he could repeat it and stayed up late every nite don was on to see if he would but he never did :(

never asked my mum wot she thort bout that obsession???

i had a TV week 'poster' of ricky on my bedroom door

how sad is that?

[honey-prawns]

hmmm, let me think.

i liked my best friends barbies more than action man.
i had a ''my make up'' doll when i was like 4 or 5
i used to pretend i was madonna/kylie/ spice girls (so embarrassed) and put on shows when i was like 10
and danced around the living room with a doll from that show 'lift off' to the Evita soundtrack
and also one i re-enacted geri halliwell's 'look at me' - geri's back. disturbing

[subwayray]

My first cassette was BROS (when will I be famous?) LOL

I was in a skipping team called the SuperLoopers, where we had to wear bright pink T-Shirts and bike pants

[meezon04]

My first cassette was BROS (when will I be famous?) LOL

I was in a skipping team called the SuperLoopers, where we had to wear bright pink T-Shirts and bike pants

Oh my God, you poor thing you!!!

You had no hope of being straight hahahahaha

[pdunni]

I must admit, I have laughed out loud to some of these things as I have been there. I had forgotten some things until i had read this thread.

Well for starters, my first music purchase was the record 45 single of Kylie's Locomotion,, you would think that would be enough on it's own.

Also I played show me yours, show you mine, with two other boys. One brought one of those disposable cameras to school and we took pictures in the toilet. A few days later his mum had got them processed. All of us and our parents got called into a meeting with the principal, they all thought we were getting sexually abused by someone and were trying to make us tell who it was but it was just each other.

Just to top it off at this same primary school, we had an Italian assesment, which was a conversation between a man and a woman. I was with another boy so I had convinced my mum to let me wear her summer dress, including heels to school for the performance and of course be the lady. I was in like year 4 at this stage.

My mum was never surprised...

[new_boy_brook]

I used to love the feeling of my ken dolls rubbed up against me

[new_boy_brook]

I used to love ken dolls and wearing my mums lipstick

Also I loved aquatics at school where I could shower with the boys but I'd an always get an erection

[Christian Taylor]

I used to love ken dolls and wearing my mums lipstick

Everytime I was in a play at school I always made sure I was cast as a woman, so I could raid mother's wardrobe.

Not that I actually wear women's clothing now.

Unless kilts count...

[Weasel]

All you posers who just played with other people's barbies can kiss my ass. I had my own house full of them, with one Sindy Doll who was the boss because she had dark hair. She got dibs on Ken and the others were all lesbos.

Also had Care Bears and a Cabbage Patch kid, and would always steal my cousin's My Little Ponies.

And I did 7 years of classical ballet.

At age 4 or 5 I went up the street dressed as a fairy (my older brother threatened to leave home). There were numerous instances of drag, culiminating with my performance (age 7) as the Ugly-Sister in Chief in the school musical production of Cinderella (in High School I was the lead in Oklahoma.

When the boys played knights and castles, it was generally accepted that I would stay home and mind the fort. If only I had that many guys coming home to me now, huh?

At age 5 I started listening to Madonna. At age 8 I drove my entire family crazy driving accross the US demaning that the radio station be changed until we found 'Papa Don't Preach', and at age 13 my Dad bought me the 'Sex' book which I TOOK TO SCHOOL). The first song I ever bought myself was 'The Only Way is Up' by Yazz.

The best one, though, was when I played Lego with my brother. He was always a boy's boy but we were close in age and so spent lots of time together. As a compromise, we would build a big lego house and, while he built defence systems and armoured patrol vehicles... I would make chandeliers and colour co-ordinated bedrooms.

(plus did anyone else have fabuland lego... hello, it had fab in the name!)

There's bound to be a few more. I was the gayest child you ever did see.

[Tristianity]

haha "fabuland" lego i had "paradiso" lego for christ sakes. The main colour in that one was PINK... I'm pretty sure my mum bought me the first set, so i blame her! Not only that but i also had a shopping centre play set, which my mum bought for me one Christmas. In fact my mum bought me alot of gay things as a child, maybe i should blame her when i come out...

[stock_standard]

i think telling my mum when i was like 6 , that the moment i turend 18 i was having an operation to turn into a girl was a big hint.
i also used to walk around the house and "shop" for hours at a time. picking this to go with that.
then there was the swapping presents with my sister at christmass, i was a big fan of dressing barbie up.
as i got older my sister became my barbie and i used to dress and stlye her exactly the same. lol
and of course captain planet was my hero.
god could go on for ever with stuff lol

[Christian Taylor]

Do they still do Easter Parades? Every Easter my mum and I used to get a giant hat and put a rock on one side, and a bread roll on the other. And it would be a "rock and roll" hat. What a pun.

tim, your mother was a genius! mine was so inept. it reminds me of ralph on the simpsons - "i'm idaho!"

http://www.uwm.edu/People/tplee/IMAGES/ralph1.gif

i was once caught with pages that i'd torn out of one of mother's NEW IDEA magazines - nude pictures of WARWICK CAPPER.

even *i* am ashamed to know me now that i reflect on that.

[mjm078]

I think my granmother entertained my homo side more than my parents when i was younger, because everything a little bit gay came from her...

I got roller stakes for my 9th birthday (rather than inline skates) which had hot pink stripes down the side which nan actaully coloured in black to make them more socially acceptable. But she could do nothing with the hot pink wheels......i love them mum and dad still have them at their house.....

A ticket to New Kids on the Block for christmas when i was about the same age i guess. She sent my younger aunty along with me and my female cousin who is the same age as me - that was my first concert....(the ticket was presented inside the video cassette case along with the concert from somewhere in the states)

I asked for a soccerball one year so i could take it school and play netball with the other girls at little lunch....(owning the ball ensures you get to pick sides) actually on the first day i took the ball in the boys asked if they could be on my side at lunch presuming i was going to play soccer and i turned around and said sure if you want to play netball.......

I was about 12 when madonna's erotica was released and she made sure i got that for christmas as well as mum and dad wouldn't get for me that either........

I was well good at hopscotch, elastics and could plat hair from the age of 8.....and always did and still do have the neatest hand writing (but i think that it a genetics thing cause my whole family has neat handwriting)......its actually quiet funny because i will be in a meeting at work and my parnter will nominate me to "scribe" on the white board or take the notes because he knows it will come out twice as neat as anyone else......

[ChrisDude]

Okay, let's revive the dead thread.

I played hopscotch with the girls at primary school, and spent more time on the monkey bars than any other guy there. I played with dolls (generally my sister's) when she was very small. I watched a lot of She-Ra, even named my dog after one of the characters (Beau) when I was seven. Oh yes, and I loved Captain Planet! Power Rangers too.

The first CD I ever owned was Abba's Gold (my second and third were Metallica's The Unforgiven II and The Living End's Second Solution/Prisoner of Society -- work that out!). I also had a dirty great fascination with getting my ears pierced from about the age of seven. My mum said that she didn't like boys with earrings (I wonder why :-)), so I didn't end up getting them done. Funnily enough, I'm 23 now and still haven't been pierced, even though I still have the fascination.

[peterr3445w]

I used to draw pictures of naked hunks and then tear then up before anyone could see them. Always front and rear!

[iwaswayoff]

I was a 15 year old country boy who had no idea my mother would suspect anything whilst I watched the film clip to Pet Shop Boys "Domino Dancing" on loop play. It consisted entirely of 2 boys pushing each other about in the surf for 3 minutes.

[dejavu]

urmmmm I was glued to the TV from age 5 when any male gymnastics was on. At age 10 mom bought me a book about the birds and the bees, I used a black marker to black out all the girly bits and enhanced the male ones. whoops.

[dejavu]

OH OH I had a Picture Bible as a kid and in that bible there were pictures of buff egyptions... I used to look at them for hours, they were hot.

[pkgrrl]

I was always the 'boy' in school plays. Year 5 I was a tap dancing sailor and girls would chase or follow me round the playground. Obviously they were 'in character' me, not so much. I was the 'tecci' wires, leads, PA system, were my forte. Had a pair of black Amco overalls that I wore to the death had pin-ups of Bridget Bardot, Rene Geyer (go figure) all over my room. Played 'house' with the neighbour, she cooked and I mowed the lawns and took her 'out' to dinner at the local milk bar. FUN!

[dreadcircus]

Great thread.. Really interesting read :)

My father constantly pushed me to play football and cricket when I was young... that was never going to work... I had a major Grease 1 and 2 addiction.. LOL Still do.. Was always wearing my mums and sisters clothes...

I remember my dad caught me once dressed as a girl around 6 years old and threatened to send me to school like that.. LOL I recently reminded my dad of that occasion to which he cant recall.. woulda saved me alotta heart ache if he hadda just done it...

I did alot of theater at school.. landed roles in Grease and Rocky Horror for school productions.. hahaha when I played Frank in year 9... I would go home still in costume and run around the house all night in heels and fishnets much to the anger of my dad LOL..

spose I then got into death metal bands singing for them... Tried to mask who I was for many years within that community of metal heads..looking back most metal bands have massive gay undertones.. Sadly much was repressed until the last 5 years... and where else can you go that aint gay orientated where the majority of crowd are boys with no tops on sweating and pushing against each other?? A metal gig.. So very gay!!

Peace
xx

[philby]

I had an envelope stuck under my desk in my bedroom that had torn-out pictures inside of Sherilyn Fenn when she appeared in Playboy.

[robbie]

ah, loved reading back this thread, and noticed I didn't even share!

I used to play kiss chasy with the girls at school, from grade 2 - 6... was never interested in sports, footy or anything that could physically harm me..

My bedroom walls were plastered with TV week lifeout posters of all the hottest 80's artists - Kylie, Danni, Mel and Kim, George Michael, Paula Abdul and of course Madge.. My vinyl singles collection has about 15 Kylie's (all in mint condition mind you!) and plenty of Belinda Carlisle. I think it was 25th birthday, we were back at my parents house with about 20 mates and someone discovered my vinyl singles collection.. I had to sit there in front of everyone and tell them WHY? lol.. even mum was there listening too.. she said "my god, how blind was I?"

[philby]

Oh, and another thing - I was busted big time when my mum, sister & sister's friend all sat down together in the loungeroom to watch a video.

My sister hits 'play' and on comes the sex scene (of course) from Desert Hearts that I had been watching the night before.

My sister & her friend cracked up laughing, my heart sank and my mother didn't say a word.

Those were the days.....

[dreadcircus]

My bedroom walls were plastered with TV week lifeout posters of all the hottest 80's artists - Kylie, Danni, Mel and Kim, George Michael, Paula Abdul and of course Madge.. My vinyl singles collection has about 15 Kylie's (all in mint condition mind you!) and plenty of Belinda Carlisle. "

Oh hell yeh... How sad is this around 12 years old I was so paranoid people would find out I believed I was TS that I even had all my bros, culture club, kylie, george michael and everything else camp from that era of grace and keyboards hidden away in my closet with all my chicks clothes... god forbid my metal head mates found out... Year later they did, funny how nothing really changed... all those years in hiding and most my friends couldnt care less LOL

[Mr J]

hmm well

I LOVED cooking ... my dad made a woodern stove and it was my FAVOURATE until he took it away

My favourate singer was deborah allen and song was baby i lied ... i still remember it

Loved captain planet (favourate was martey and Care bears ... (my favouarte was the one with the love heart) Oh and i loved sailor moon

Prefered cats to dogs .... i was catman growing up ... oh and i scratched instead of punched :P

Had a group of about 10 kids in year three do a show and tell and feel ... i was one of the leaders of the group

I came up with my little sisters super hero name love love

I detested sports and ABSOULTLY hated fighting ... hated bruce lee because of the blood

I had a book that showed a drawn version captain cooks adventure to australia ... in there it had pics of aboriginials (with things covered up) I always wanted to look at them.

[trev26]

tried to beat the boys at sport. gave barbie a buzz cut. wore all my brothers hand-me-downs (hmm, mum, maybe that's the reason...). climbed every tree i could - apparently i climbed a ladder into a tree before i could walk. had a crush on my grade 4 teacher. spent most of the time naked in my backyard... ;)

[Nevarro]

omg i cant believe how many of us all did the same things.... if we were to put it in a book mums and dads wouldn’t have an excuse for being so shocked any more... they would see all the signs from age 2...

Speaking of which - my mum and i can see all the tell tale signs in my 4year old nephew - he does things i used to do.


I always wanted a cabbage patch doll but never got one at xmas :(
but i did get a barbie on a shopping trip that mum told me to hide from dad :p

My Bestie and i would undress Ken as well - and id always take a sneak peak in the boys toilets.. and oh my wasn’t camp the best place for an eye full HAHA

Mummy would let me wear her heels, her dresses and even her lipstick - then i would get a towel and wrap it on my head so i would have long flowing fabric softener smelling hair LOL

My little pony was my most favourite colouring in book and karaoke in the front yard to Kylies locomotion was the only way to end a Sunday afternoon.

how about the good ol Mary Poppins umbrella attempts of the roof when i out grew my batman outfit haha


ahhhh good times :D

[akkguy]

I was so in love with "Locomotion" by Kylie ... when I lost the cassette I was devastated ...

[Mr J]

I loved mary poppins ... never jumped off the roof but it was one of my FAVOURATE vids growing up

[chezcaliente]

not to burst the bubble boys and grrls, but I don't find threads or discussions like this "prove" anything about sexuality as being hard wired (as suggested by the ed's letter today). It certainly reflects on gender identification (which is strongly intertwined with sexuality, granted) - but there's plenty of boys who used to dress up in outrageous clothes as a kid who turned out straight in the end, and plenty of boys who were pretty conservative who come out later in life to the (unwarranted) surprise of friends/family.

I'm sure the same applies to all the tomboys, tree-climbers, knee-scraping girls out there.

Is it just me, or does that last phrase conjure up "How do you solve a problem like Maria?" lol

Meanwhile - for me its all fairly typical: skipping ropes, dress ups, an Easter parade, musicals, strong artistic and creative drives, low interest in sports...

but a mate who I did some of that stuff with continues to be straight, and possibly more camp than I have ever been, and will probably always be so. And NO - I don't agree with anyone who thinks he is "living a lie" or "hiding his true self". He's just camp as a row of pink tents, and straight! Deal with it.

Oh, and hi everybody. First samesame post!

[Laurence]

When i was 3 i used to put socks/shoe laces on my ears and refer to them as my girl hair. The same applied to skivvies when i was 10 - if you take it off over yr head and keep the collar just below the hair line. It looked like one of those hideous chunky hair bands with material hair of the same colour. Got a crush on Daniel Lane in 1986 - he was in yr 6, i in yr 2, i know older man, told Ruth Hoffman in kindergarten at the monkey bars one day. Also told her if she told anyone i would fucking kill her. Was always the mother in the game mothers and fathers, would get "pregnant" and have a baby called Lucy.
Would wear my mothers green slingbacks and order my younger cousins around the backyard. Thats all i can remember for now but lets put it this way when my cousin asked me what i wanted to be when i grew i up, i replied "a girl". Discuss.

[CC Bee]

In the 80s, there used to be a brand of make up for very young girls called Tinkerbell. Guess who asked for some for Christmas when he was in primary school?! And got it!

Oh but seriously, too many red flags for my family to ever be suprised!

[philandering]

Ohh i love this.

1. The costume dress ups. At after school care we had a store room of old women's clothes for dress ups. Every day the girls and i would head over to the store room and got dolled up and run around the school yard. I had my favorite dress which was this kinda 60s/70s orange patterned moomoo. loved it.

2. My sister and her friend and i would dress up as the 3 witches from Hocus Pocus - remember that movie with bette. Well of course i was always bette. my sister got to be sarah jessica parker. we also used to attached coloured ribbons to our brooms sticks and run aroudn the yard.

3. in 91 i asked santa for the malibu lego hotel set. the one with the pool and the girly lego figurines... i got two sets hahaha one from my mum and one from my dad.

4. played barbies day in and day out with my sister and faught over who got to recreated the make out scenes with ken.

5. did cabaret shows for my family - constantly.

6. loved rainbow bright - go Timmy D

7. when i was 8 - i was having a shower with my 12 year old cousin. apparently i tried to play swords with him hahaha... he turned around and said "phil your gay!" and i turned around and said " YEAH, well your FRANK" My adopted grandparents are named gay + frank. I'll never live that one down.

8. i loved being on a stage - used be be a child model and loved modelling underwear and swimwear lol.

and thats just a few things... its kind of all much the same as everyone else isn't it?

text book really.

[philandering]

and the first cd i ever owned was priscilla queen of the desert.

i begged an moaned until someone bought it for me! And i was super angry my mother wouldn't take me to see it. I would have been 10 or 11 i think

[Christian Taylor]

I had a Kylie Minogue - Hand On Your Heart poster on my wall, torn from the pages of Smash Hits Magazine. It wasn't up there for long though, because my mother had a morbid fear or Blu-Tac stains on the wall.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1a/KylieMinogueHandOnYourHeartVideo.jpg/150px-KylieMinogueHandOnYourHeartVideo.jpg

[philandering]

ahhh smash hits... did anyone play the game where your friends would sit around the table. we each had our copy of smash hits + one would say something from the magazine and the others had to find the page it was on... sad sad sad.

i have a spice girls shrine somewhere at home with mum too... like every article from the newspaper magazines, collectables... everything in a box.

sooooooooooo gay

[meezon04]

i STILL buy smash hits!!

[Ruffnut]

Does crying at 'The Sound Of Music' movie count?............soooo gay in those days!!!

[taylor-dayne]

i used to perform in musicals at school and would often raid my mother's wardrobe for costumes.

[she was quite large, so i would sometimes have to fill the dresses wtih pillows from home.]

[Bent_Fridays]

Well let me see.......

* I used to play cops and robbers
* I used to play some ninja game with my male cousins and beat the crap out of them
* I used to cut barbie's hair off and bash her with my he-man/tmnt/monster dolls
* I used to play brittish bulldogs bith the boys in primary school
* I used to play with my cars and trucks
* I used to draw cops/army people/trucks

hmmm.......do i want to really delve into my locked memories? hehehe

[Laurence]

Mine too! She said Blu-Tac stained the walls and was the work of the devil...or something like that. Thank goodness for built ins! I was so cautious of the boy/girl celebrity poster ratio as well. I think i got it right but did have way too many Simon Denny (Baker) and Luke Perry posters...and Jason Priestley and Dieter Brummer and Edward Furlong and...but i did make up for it by dedicating the back of my door to Madge and her 1993 Girlie Show Tour. Yeah right, totally confirming my heterosexuality i thought - no one will ever guess!

[dreadcircus]

quite interesting that many of us wore mummys clothes... and yet I seem to be the only one who became mummy ;) dont know what this proves but it caught my attention :)

[dreadcircus]

I must say on Kylie... when she started her career I was in love with her and her music.. sadly at the time my life was very different and the peer pressure I felt to not like her crushed me.. Feel like I missed so much of her career and secretly had her music on burnt discs.. saw her last tour and cried all the way through it.. aww

[jackie87]

I just found all my Spice Girls posters I had around when I was about 10, needless to say I'm surprise they weren't a warning sign to my parents

[DeepBlueDreamer]

hmmmm I almost forgot your age jackie87...you were TEN when the girls released their first...I feel like the last remaining human on Doctor who :eek:

"gay" stuff...I started cooking before my sister did...does that count? I did have more product than any girl i knew. I had two shelves and my sister used to call it the Manhattan sky line. :o

[Ruffnut]

I remember being dry humped by my best mate at school whilst I was wearing a pair of mums panty hose.....he had a fetish for womens underwear and the biggest tool in the class. Who was I too deny himhis fantasy...

I think I was the class slag at Marist Brothers Boys high...say no more.

Those were the years.....

[GenesisInVain]

*I always preferred to be Juliet rather than Romeo in english class

OMGSH.. that so applies to me!!!

I am loving this thread!!

hmmm

When Batman and Robin came out in the movies all the kids at school used to pick which one they would be and I would always pick Poison Ivy!!!

Sailor Moon on TV..my sister and I would always do her little transformation performances and her actions. Moon Prism Power!!! or I would become Sailor Jupiter when my 4 girl cousins would come over and we'd play Sailor Moon. Also had a major crush on Sailor Moon's major crush-Tuxedo Mask

I so used to undress Ken Dolls...my mum knew from there!

I never dressed in dresses but in kindy we had to be in this play called the princess in the tower and I threw a tantrum because I wanted to be the princess but instead i got the wicked witch!!


# 30
Old 13th April 2007, 10:13 PM
awesome thread!

i used to dress up in mum's high heels and dresses, was obsessed with Miss World and Miss Universe contests and used to wrap towels around my head to mould them inbto 'beautiful, long hair' and 'parade' on the 'catwalk' next to our pool - aged 6 - 7yo

played the usual doctors n nurses with the neighbourhood kids but was only interested in 'operating' on the boys or being 'operated on' by a boy...this also applies to me

i used to be obsessed with just playing with girls..hated all the rough games. I was skipping champion in yr 2,3,4 and 5... yes that's right!!!

In yr 2 I wrote for me (what do you want to be when you grow up-sort of things). I wrote I wanted to be a Spice Girl to the amusement of my lesbian teacher.. I think she was a lesbian anyways

i feel in love with a boy on the first day of highschool...anymore gay?

[Cheetah77]

I can't believe you wanted to be a Spice Girl Genesis - that is GOLD!! hehe (and oh so fabulous!!)

[ben j]

"Do they still do Easter Parades? Every Easter my mum and I used to get a giant hat and put a rock on one side, and a bread roll on the other. And it would be a "rock and roll" hat. What a pun.

My god, at the time I thought it was the funniest thing in the world. But I swear I brought out the same "rock and roll" hat for about three or four Easter parades in a row. Nothing like recycling a good idea.'

i think that's the funniest thing in the world now tim - your mum rocks (pun intended)


when i was about 8 i went through a phase of being obsessed with match-box semi-trailers, and playing smash up derbys with them. that was pretty much routine for all the boys in my class, however i was the only one who suggested after a particularly violent game of it, that all the trucks meet up for a dinner party and put their differences behind them. which they did.

[timmeyboy]

One year for Christmas I got an A La Carte Kitchen, was one of those lovely little pretend kitchens with plastic tins and food and i used to make and bake all goodies,
I had a cabbage patch kids wendy house but that offset my masters of greyskull castle.
I used to collect smash hits religiously, once buying 5 copies so I could get each of the inflatable spice girls dolls from it.
I also had scrap books of (boy) bands i liked under my bed

[philandering]

omg i bought the five smash hits mags to get the spice girl inflatables too! My favourite was always posh spice... cause i was so sophisticated + POSH

bahahahah i dressed up as lumiere from beauty + the beast for book week in grade three in a pair of my mums psycadelic coloured stockings, a yellow cardboard cylinder + holding 2 candles.... once i scan the picture i'll post it... totally embarrassing but hilarious!

[taylor-dayne]

yes, scan it! i wanna see!

i used to put pink food colouring in everything... that was another gay thing i did...
(i also used to use a straw and blow bubbles in my milkshakes... although that's not necessarily gay, it's just one of those cute kid things.)

[philandering]

in good time... the scanner at work is down... will get onto it asap!

[jimjazz]

got caught in the shower with my best mate when we were 7 by our mothers. the weird thing was that we knew something wasn't ok with what we were up to.

he is now married with kids and when we catch up, we laugh about it. why he told his wife about it, though, i don't know!!!LOL

we would fight about who was frida or agnetha from abba.

christopher atkins was my first obsession aged 9 and i fell in love with another boy at 11; i used to fantasize we would be both trapped alone on a deserted island. wonder why?

mum's knee high leather boots with gold studs got a work out in the hallway.

despite attempts to be a tough boy, my football playing career went nowhere and i ended up joining the running team. chasing boys instead of mauling them. perhaps a poor choice upon reflection?

i also stripped "action man" (English equivalent of gi joe who came with a grendier guard uniform - HOT!) to see him naked - there seems to be a theme emerging in this thread!!

we quite happily ask a child - have you got a boyfriend/girlfriend at school? i know i was asked that question as a child with the assumption being i had a girlfriend if anything. its no wonder we grow up with an ever present anxiety about our sexual identity/preference etc. the whole world has moulded us according to its wishes from the earliest possible moment. this is where the rot sets in.

i have two godchildren (aged 4 & 1); their parents are intent on ensuring that they have every opportunity to express their honest selves and will provide them with the scope and platform for them. it is with this next generation that we will truly see some great change as kids grow up seeing diverse sexuality as nothing but the norm.

this thread has shown how vitally important this process is. good on you guys for initiating a fun and thought provoking examination of childhood sexual awakenings.

[honey-prawns]

I used to love the feeling of my ken dolls rubbed up against me

were they the ones with the fuzzy hair hehe

[honey-prawns]

i just remembered -

my grandmother used to make me tube tops and longs skirts out of beach towels, i also wore my best friends one piece rainbow swimming costume when i was like 4 0r 5

[timmeyboy]

God the 70's and 80's were just good years to be a kid and to be gay hahahahaha
Kids' these days don't know they're born hahahahaha

[Anthony Mahera]

We when I was about 7, I used to play with my best friend at the time. We would sneak into the local church and hide underneath the alter. We would play games with each others body parts. At the time it was weird and exciting cause I didn't really know what we where doing in terms of how we think about sex today.

One of my mum's best freinds had a daughter named Sandy and once we made out behind some curtins when I was about the same age. Now for this kiss we opened our mouths, pressed them against each other and open and closed our lips, once again didn't know what we where doing.

How embarressing!!!!!!!

[Aries Fairy]

Me and my friends used to do 'strip shows' for the group, taking turns when we stayed over at each others house for slumber parties. it was my turn to take my clothes off in front of everyone else one time and just as i got to the money shot, my friends mum walked in on us. we all ran as fast we could to the pull-out beds, and in the melee I stubbed my toe really badly and broke it. But we had to pretend to sleep so I had to deal with the pain until the morning. Even then, I could't give my dad / the doctor the real reason of how I broke it.

oh yeah, all the other boys are straight now. we have never talked about it since.

[Christian Taylor]

strip shows! that is so funny. i love that none of you discussed it ever again...

[Christian Taylor]

i just remembered -

my grandmother used to make me tube tops and longs skirts out of beach towels, i also wore my best friends one piece rainbow swimming costume when i was like 4 0r 5

i can personally vouch for this one - i was there. i saw it all!
his grandmother (my aunty) used to tickle me until i wet my pants when i was a child. it was so traumatic.

she's an odd lady.

[mjm078]

Christian - if his grandmother is your aunty does that mean his mum is your cousin? correct?

Love it!

[Christian Taylor]

yes - honey-prawns is my second cousin...

(we're also flatmates, psuedo-brothers and very good friends!)

[Tim D]

(and lovers)......

[DeepBlueDreamer]

pssst! are you also Tasmanians?!

Hold ya horses...doesn't that make CT an uncle of honey-prawns?

[marky markywicz]

"BUMP"... This thread is GOLD!

[wysiwyg_syd]

when i was a kid i touched my cousin's penis while he's asleep.

[Light-Bearer]

Slept with priests.

[Chad676]

Kissed a boy in Kinda :)

was obsessed with looking at erect penises when i first saw a porno magazine (in my uncles room when i was 10)

i also remember a "peter pan" themed dress up party i went to one time, all the boys dressed up like Peter Pan or one of the lost boys.....i was seriously the ONLY one who came dressed as Captain Hook. All the boys chased me and tackled me down and all their attention was on me....loved it :)

[TheOldie]

I cant be bothered reading if I posted but dont remember ever doing so.

OK so

around 7 got caught with a another 7 showing each other our cocks.

Remember those movies where 3 peoples heads ( one on top of each other ) would pop around the corner and only way to do that was to lay :) on top of the guy , so I did and rubbed into them. Or one of my best friends who at age around 11-13 had a HUGE cock and I was always getting him to get it out and play with it.

When I left High School and was on the dole ( for a very short period ) I went to Newcastle to go to movies and watched Serpico , Jesus Christ Superstar , Mame.

Listened to records ( yes vinyl records ) of Jesus Christ Superstar and Liza with a Z
and knew all the words.

[wozzdogger]

* I recall that i used to dress up in a tutu, put on a big black wig and dance to Kate Bush with my older sisters.

* also used to masterbate alot with my friends in the middle of a paddock on the side of the ol' billabong.. straight guys can be so gay.

[datkindagal]

I used to dress up and wear makeup, I loved makeup.

[tricky28]

Reading through this thread was great fun. I have remembered so many suspect things from childhood after being primed with all these stories.

I'll think about whether i want to share them.

[marky markywicz]

Reading through this thread was great fun. I have remembered so many suspect things from childhood after being primed with all these stories.

I'll think about whether i want to share them.

You know you want to ;)

[crazzymikey]

I dressed up as wonder woman in preschool with wig and make up. When I arrived at school the teachers thought I had a sister.

always liked trying on my mums heels lol.

I always wanted a barbie doll but never got one, instead I got a fat doll which I drove around in my tonka trucks and transformers. Then one year I got a pink barbie car instead and i would put my he man in that. I loved toys as a kid though and my transformers were my prize possessions.

Used to play a game called mothers and fathers with girls at school and I always fought to be the mother. I was a tough kid though and got into fights and sometimes even bullied.

Often I liked playing Hop scotch and elastic instead of hand ball with the boys.

[ammonite]

early childhood:

on rainy days i would watch the sound of music over and over and then mary poppins over and over - i was a bit obsessed with Julie Andrews


late childhood:

i had a scrapbook filled with pictures of women from underware catalogues and magazine perfume ads


Xena was my favourite tv show


when playing outside I would usually pretend to be either Hans Solo or Indiana Jones. - (Harrison Ford obsession?)

Most of my other idols and role models where male too.

(I often wonder - if someone like Lara Croft had existed then if I would have still chosen male heros and role models, and would I still be homo-ish?)


secret love of k.d. lang

[andrewc]

i made up dance routines on the trampoline to Kylie using my sisters pink ghetto blaster!

[bellsforher]

- I ws in love with my best friend in preschool - she was the most gorgeous thing on the planet.

- I got in trouble for drawing naked ladies in primary school art class.

- I had a love of wearing boater hats, pinstripe trousers with braces, and carrying a gentleman's walking cane around.

- I loved digging holes and I had an obsession with boxes and sitting IN boxes (I'm sure those are lezzo metaphors!)

- I loved sitting in my closet whiling away the hours talking to my dolls.

[marky markywicz]

It is sooo interesting to read your posts.
The signs are there for parents.
Makes me wonder how many chose to ignor them.

[Mighty_Magpies]

I used to dress in my sisters nighties and make wigs out of plastic bags by cutting them up lol.
And I used to play with my sisters barbie dolls instead of my GI Joe ahaha. I'm surprised nobody ever asked me if I was/am gay.

[ammonite]

When i was in kindergarten i went through a phase where i refused to wear pants, and would only wear dresses.
My grandma had to make me some dresses out of tracksuit material for winter.

Then when i was a few years older i went through a phase where i refused to wear dresses, and would only wear pants.
Actually i'm pretty much still in that phase :o

[trina2004]

This thread is hilarious. I can relate so much Ammi!

When I was a kid I was a little tomboy. No dresses, no pink, no 'girly' things. Played soccer. Kinda sorry I stopped as its where all the gay girls are in this town! lol.
I remember going out to a fancy restaurant for a friends birthday, first time we'd all dressed up, and all the other girls arrived in long dresses with makeup on. I think I was 10 or11. I wore dark brown pants, boots and a white suit jacket! lol. And in those days I had my ha ir all cut off, so the waiter was like "this way ladies, sir" and my friends all gave me funny looks.

hmm what else...

my sister, brother and I used to play 'house' in our front yard, my older sister was mum, I was dad, and my little brother was the kid. I was always the boy.
- oh and I had, (and still have to be honest), a huge love of suits.

I used to have these plastic indians and soldiers and there was an unbelieveable amount of sex involved in my little storylines. Is that normal? Like, my indians would fight the soldiers and hunt animals as well, but at least 75% of their time was spent having sex. Maybe I had a problem.

[Light-Bearer]

When my mum tried to make me go to the toilet, I'd charge her fifty dollars.

[ammonite]

ahahahahaha

[Chad676]

i always loved effeminate male characters in cartoon shows, especially if they were villains

[weathervain]

My sisters and I did a reinactment of this film clip where I was the girl and they were the boys, in retrospect the fact I popped out of a suitcase was more appealing than being a girl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiQofU5nvVM

I put it down to too much Cosby show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfg0MPF1BwA

[JayTee]

* also used to masterbate alot with my friends in the middle of a paddock on the side of the ol' billabong.. straight guys can be so gay.

i wonder how straight guys interpret those incidents?

do you think that hindsight is a little skewed in threads like this?

we can all look back and remember something that adds up to being "gay". but what about all those things that happened and we've forgotten that could just as easily be "straight"?

what does straight and gay traits mean anyway?

sorry for getting all philosophical, it's my first day off with nothing to do in weeks and my mind is wandering and thinking about the meaning of life (mine in particular).

[Tim D]

I remember this thread, love it.

[Light-Bearer]

I never went to band camp but for some reason always ended up with an orchestra's worth of flutes up my ass.

[meezon04]

Oh I remember this thread too - hilarious :D

[Tatsuya]

I use to dress up as ninja turtles and the the red powerranger for costume days at school when i was little.

I could tell the difference between tools (spanner sizes etc, without reading what size it was) before i could tie my shoes

I started racing go karts at the age of 7

Xena was my fave show

and I first slept with another girl in my 3rd grade =P
(i honestly didnt know any better, we were playing mums and daddy's and i didnt know that it was 'wrong' to touch another girl like that... but she enjoyed it)

it just got worse from there =P

[bellsforher]

Ahhh! That reminds me!

we had a book week thing at school when i was little and I dressed up as Sinbad the Sailor - I had a moustache and everything. All the other girls thought I was weird. They were all princesses and such.

Obviously not much has changed looking at my profile pic!

[marky markywicz]

Ahhh! That reminds me!

we had a book week thing at school when i was little and I dressed up as Sinbad the Sailor - I had a moustache and everything. All the other girls thought I was weird. They were all princesses and such.

Obviously not much has changed looking at my profile pic!

BLESS :D

[Totka]

I can't count all the gay things I did. I do remember watching lots of gladiator movies usually wearing something like a toga made out of my bed sheets. There was also a time I decided I would use my mothers good silver tea set to make myself a high tea. Oh and there was a lot of you show me yours and I'll show you mine, but, with the boys only.

[ammonite]

i wonder how straight guys interpret those incidents?

do you think that hindsight is a little skewed in threads like this?

we can all look back and remember something that adds up to being "gay". but what about all those things that happened and we've forgotten that could just as easily be "straight"?

what does straight and gay traits mean anyway?

sorry for getting all philosophical, it's my first day off with nothing to do in weeks and my mind is wandering and thinking about the meaning of life (mine in particular).

yes i was thinking the same thing

i always had girlish toys and interests and boyish toys and interests


but what is considered masculine and feminine is constantly changing over time anyway, it doesn't have any real meaning at all

http://steynian.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/hughlaurieprinceregentblackadder2.jpg

it's interesting to me how intelligence in a man is seen as feminising and in a woman it's seen as masculinising

[badamj2000]

I was a perfect angel . Mummy said

[flounder]

I fucked the boy across the road.:D

[Light-Bearer]

When I was in 3rd grade, I wrote an entire musical stage play called "Ghost Bat' and my whole year performed it for the whole school.

I remember writing the script and everytime we would have rehearsals, I'd explode if some one got the songs wrong.

I also hated the fact that I had to include girls in the script cos I kinda wanted it to be the first ever gay kids musical

[Light-Bearer]

I'm serious

It was at Belmore North Primary school

[Light-Bearer]

When I was about 8 or 9, I got dressed up in my aunt's clothing and went and stood outside, leaning against a telegraph pole like I was some cum hungry prostitute.

Cars were honking at me- while all my first cousins peeked out through the blinds, praying our parents couldn't see us.

[Light-Bearer]

Douche with Slurpees

[ammonite]

When I was in 3rd grade, I wrote an entire musical stage play called "Ghost Bat' and my whole year performed it for the whole school.

I remember writing the script and everytime we would have rehearsals, I'd explode if some one got the songs wrong.

I also hated the fact that I had to include girls in the script cos I kinda wanted it to be the first ever gay kids musical

I'm serious

It was at Belmore North Primary school

that is adorable

[Light-Bearer]

You should have seen my face when I was presented with a girl named Sandra who would play the female lead.

DIDNT THEY REALISE I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE FEMALE LEAD!!!!

[weathervain]

I can't count all the gay things I did. I do remember watching lots of gladiator movies
I used to make everyone in my family watch the original Clash of the Titans if it came on TV, I would chuck a massive fit if anyone tried to change the channel or talk over it. I think I had a crush on Harry Hamlin in retrospect, this also explians why I found him extra traumatic in Veronica Mars

[Light-Bearer]

You have NO UNDERSTANDING of how much he loved Gladiator movies.

It was of course during the time of Bill Collins and his mid day movies etc- so every few days, there would always be one on.

I actually remember being a kid and walking into the living room and exclaiming loudly : " where do you keep finding these fucking gladiator movies!!!!!!"

[pho3nixphir3]

hmm. well i always wore guyish clothes in primary school. i played power rangers =D. and my select toy was a tmnt playset thingy in the shape of a turtle head. i wore pants instead of the dress, and shorts instead of a skirt.

but those are just tomboyish things, not really gay. so i guess i didn't really do anything gay, no experimenting or inappropriate touching/thinking =P

[trina2004]

Ahhh! That reminds me!

we had a book week thing at school when i was little and I dressed up as Sinbad the Sailor - I had a moustache and everything. All the other girls thought I was weird. They were all princesses and such.

Obviously not much has changed looking at my profile pic!

Haha that's cool:) Your parents must have been awesome to let you do that! Mine were always very reluctant to help me with my crossdressing! lol.

When I was in primary school we did this sing/dance thing for the Eisteddfod..(or however you spell it) to Dolly Parton's 9 to 5. We had to dress up as either business men, nurses, builders or waitresses. (Not very politically correct back in 1996).
My teacher was amused but not suprised when I spoke up in class absolutely refusing to wear either of the 'girl' costumes and thus forced her into being politically correct and letting me be a 'businesswoman', giant cardboard mobile phone and all.

[trina2004]

hmm. well i always wore guyish clothes in primary school. i played power rangers =D. and my select toy was a tmnt playset thingy in the shape of a turtle head. i wore pants instead of the dress, and shorts instead of a skirt.

but those are just tomboyish things, not really gay. so i guess i didn't really do anything gay, no experimenting or inappropriate touching/thinking =P

No Xena crush? I had a HUGE one her. I remember being in trouble for something and my parents refused to let me watch Xena- it was one of the crossover with Hercules episodes, and I loved Hercules too, so I spent the entire evening crying in my room and didn't speak to the family for two days.

But yeah, no experimenting for me. I didn't get my first kiss till I was 19. :o

[bellsforher]

remember trina, my parents were hippy artists. I was a "free spirit"

My first crush was on She-ra, Princess of Power.

[pho3nixphir3]

i didn't have a xena crush- though i did love watching it =P. can't remember who my first female crush was- it was a little muddy and confusing.

well i mean like primary school experimenting. i didn't get my first until i was 17? and then it was just a party thing.

[trina2004]

remember trina, my parents were hippy artists. I was a "free spirit"

My first crush was on She-ra, Princess of Power.

ah..good thing or bad thing?

[bellsforher]

ah..good thing or bad thing?

to which? I wouldn't have minded a little discipline now and then on the hippy parent front, and She-Ra was a cartoon character.....probably both bad things.

[trina2004]

to which? I wouldn't have minded a little discipline now and then on the hippy parent front, and She-Ra was a cartoon character.....probably both bad things.

parent thing. Its normal to crush on cartoon characters, isn't it? lol. god knows I've done it.

[bellsforher]

parent thing. Its normal to crush on cartoon characters, isn't it? lol. god knows I've done it.

hahaha! yeah, I'm sure it's fine. I used to think Jane Lane from "Daria" was pretty hot for a 2 dimensional drawing too! :D
http://www.outpost-daria.com/images/jane.gif

[badamj2000]

I may have played female roles in school plays. It was a all-boys school.

[weathervain]

hahaha! yeah, I'm sure it's fine. I used to think Jane Lane from "Daria" was pretty hot for a 2 dimensional drawing too!

My Perfect men were always

http://img84.echo.cx/img84/1364/beasttitle8ud.jpg

Piotr Rasputin

http://www.facebook.com/profile/pic.php?uid=AAAAAQAQqTU2HWnfwJPYxIjzZhAZgAAAAApeN9 dQg1Vl_Vj_bvvCm3HE

And Robert "Bobby" Drake
http://xmendiaries.ibelgique.com/encyclopedie/minis/iiceman.jpg
The perfect Jewish/Italian/Irish mix

No one understands falling in love with a cartoon better than me and Exile2059

[JayTee]

Piotr Rasputin

http://www.facebook.com/profile/pic.php?uid=AAAAAQAQqTU2HWnfwJPYxIjzZhAZgAAAAApeN9 dQg1Vl_Vj_bvvCm3HE


gay in the ultimate universe.

if only i was a kid now!

[badamj2000]

Superman was Jewish. Apparently, that's why he wore his undies on the outside?

[weathervain]

gay in the ultimate universe.

if only i was a kid now!

I know right

[pho3nixphir3]

hahaha! yeah, I'm sure it's fine. I used to think Jane Lane from "Daria" was pretty hot for a 2 dimensional drawing too! :D
http://www.outpost-daria.com/images/jane.gif

jane lane! *drools*

but i never had a crush on her when i first watched her, i guess i have a little one now =P

[trina2004]

jane lane! *drools*

but i never had a crush on her when i first watched her, i guess i have a little one now =P

She's nice, sure. I was always more about Daria. Chicks with glasses rock. Chicks with glasses, sarcasm and and combat boots= WIN. I shipped Daria and Jane in a big way though. lol.
http://a3.vox.com/6a00c22527b0f0604a0109815ee3bb000d-500pi

[pho3nixphir3]

daria is pretty awesome. but looking back, and rewatching, i gotta say jane kinda strikes me more. i've never thought of them as a couple! that would have been mindblowing. too awesome. hehehehe

[weathervain]

She's nice, sure. I was always more about Daria. Chicks with glasses rock. Chicks with glasses, sarcasm and and combat boots= WIN. I shipped Daria and Jane in a big way though. lol.
http://a3.vox.com/6a00c22527b0f0604a0109815ee3bb000d-500pi

You would love Naomi Watts as Jett in Tankgirl then

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bVCLq0ZtXE

I love this movie because the Duo remind me of early Veruca Salt, before Nina left

[weathervain]

I just remembered one...

When I was on holidays with my family on Lake Macquarie from age 5-7 I used to refuse to come in out of the water because I thought if I stayed in long enough I would turn into a Merman like Tom Hanks did at the end of Splash. When my hands started to prune up I was convinced it was working. My Parents and Siblings would try and make me come in but my retort would be the noises Madison makes, which I had mimic'd from the film. My Dad would get me out by either telling me a Shark was coming or that he was going to take the boat out without me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SM8aODC3Gk

[weathervain]

Watched the Sooty show alot and would get really pissed at Sue for being such a Mole

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn-eQDWm6U4

Matthew was uber camp

[Happy to be me]

Oh my god - this is the BEST thread ever. I love this - what a great idea. there are som any gay things i did as a child. here are some [HEAVILY EDITED] highlights:

- i stuck balloons up my shirt and danced infront of my entire family to sabrina's "boys boys boys". i was like, 10 years old.

- i was glued to the screen whenever Xanadu was televised.

- i also tried to disrobe he-man and gi joe. i remember mother being concerned at how much i played with my sisters' barbie dolls, so she bought me a g.i. joe, and i still remember the terrified look on her face when i went to her and said, "i can't get his underpants to come off."

- i had my photo taken with a cardboard cut out of kylie minogue at grundy world on the gold coast.

- ummm... there may or may not have been some sexual liaisons with my childhood friends in year 5. i recall sharing the bed with my friend chris one night during an innocent sleepover, and in the morning his sister walked in on us naked singing to "phantom of the opera".

that's all i am permitted to say at this time. if i think of anymore i'll be sure to post them!

Chris hey!!
Well i did the gyrating moves with Chantelle in Yr 5!!

I was really good at getting off by just rubbing with a girls body ..
I was a bit of a horny child!

I totally loved to look at the old Bold n Beautiful Starting intro when you got to see women in sexy bras..

I'm so gay!!
Love this thread too :)

[Happy to be me]

hahaha! yeah, I'm sure it's fine. I used to think Jane Lane from "Daria" was pretty hot for a 2 dimensional drawing too! :D
http://www.outpost-daria.com/images/jane.gif

I concur Bells!!, though i liked darias sister too.. ;)

[bellsforher]

She's nice, sure. I was always more about Daria. Chicks with glasses rock. Chicks with glasses, sarcasm and and combat boots= WIN. I shipped Daria and Jane in a big way though. lol.
http://a3.vox.com/6a00c22527b0f0604a0109815ee3bb000d-500pi

I'm not allowed to have a crush on Daria herself...see, as I have on occasion looked EXACTLY like her (I even have accidently worn the same clothes), and have been called Daria in the past, it would be slightly narcissistic of me.

[Hessy]

I'm not going to tell you the gayest one of all because that would reveal one of my fetishes but-

-I used to make my barbies marry each other and then when I'd run out of male-female pairings I married the girls to each other . When I was a bit older I made them have sex.

-I never had a crush on a male teacher-only a female teacher, I was eleven....

-I knew all the moves to wannabe by the spice girls by the time I was I hit ten. When I was eleven I sang in a disney themed musical.

-I worked my way through most of the boys crush-wise, then when I went to secondary school I started working my way through the girls....

-I had my hair cut short when I was eleven because I was fed up with it being long, I never did anything with it anyway, just stuck in a messy ponytail usually comprised of knots.

[ammonite]

I just remembered one...

When I was on holidays with my family on Lake Macquarie from age 5-7 I used to refuse to come in out of the water because I thought if I stayed in long enough I would turn into a Merman like Tom Hanks did at the end of Splash. When my hands started to prune up I was convinced it was working. My Parents and Siblings would try and make me come in but my retort would be the noises Madison makes, which I had mimic'd from the film. My Dad would get me out by either telling me a Shark was coming or that he was going to take the boat out without me.
awwwwwwwww!

[mudley]

Amazing thread, I have really enjoyed reading these responses. And Weathervain... SOOTY!! How I used to love that little socky wonder back in the 70's.

But for me, I can barely think of any 'gay kid' things I ever did. In fact I can barely remember anything I did that I think was particularly about anything. I never socialised with other children and I was very quiet, self-contained and dwelled almost totally in my own world. I sat up late while my parents had parties and started learning how to play music very young.

Perhaps.... the first album I bought was Colour By Numbers by Culture Club.

But I was all Lego and matchbox cars. No undressing of dolls, drag performances (10yo Christian with balloons doing Sabrina is too funny) or co-ordinating my wardrobe.

But my mother did inform me that she and my father thought I was gay... when I was 10! In the early 80's on the Sunshine Coast all that meant to me was that I had let them down and I was a freak.

[Light-Bearer]

When I was a toddler. I made a dildo out of my teething rusks.

[trina2004]

You would love Naomi Watts as Jett in Tankgirl then

I love this movie because the Duo remind me of early Veruca Salt, before Nina left

I have tried to watch Tankgirl but can't get into it..

[cilipadi]

-I used to make my barbies marry each other and then when I'd run out of male-female pairings I married the girls to each other . When I was a bit older I made them have sex.


Me too. I always had to hide my naked barbies when people came into the playroom.

[weathervain]

I have tried to watch Tankgirl but can't get into it..

Aww, I'm a big Lori Peti fan from her "Booker" days

[badamj2000]

I went to a proper school and you didnt , apparently. Frankly it does show....

[flounder]

I went to a proper school and you didnt , apparently. Frankly it does show....

Pffft.

[flounder]

I was attracted to Bomba the jungle boy and his loincloth I wanted to be him

http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/johnnysheffield.html

[badamj2000]

Pffft.
??? tee hee

[weathervain]

I went to a proper school and you didnt , apparently. Frankly it does show....

Why because you can't think for yourself unless it's to navel gaze?

[jimmy08]

What gay things you did as a kid...

When I was in primary school, I love Cabbage Patch kids and love reading, 'The Baby-sitter's club' series by Ann M. Martin.

In year 12, as I was doing some home-work in the lounge-room, I flicked through the channels, and the movie, 'Two Moon Junction' was on... I remembered my heart was pounding so fast and at the same time, I was worried of being caught by parents for watching that film on TV. Looking back, I wish I haven't watched that film...

[badamj2000]

Why because you can't think for yourself unless it's to navel gaze?
Oh yes dear, you rule the street?Kettle -black, indeed. Pfft

[Happy to be me]

What gay things you did as a kid...

When I was in primary school, I love Cabbage Patch kids and love reading, 'The Baby-sitter's club' series by Ann M. Martin.

In year 12, as I was doing some home-work in the lounge-room, I flicked through the channels, and the movie, 'Two Moon Junction' was on... I remembered my heart was pounding so fast and at the same time, I was worried of being caught by parents for watching that film on TV. Looking back, I wish I haven't watched that film...

I loved the babysitters club books!!
I had a crush in my head on kirsty and dawn..

i read the entire series when i was a big bookworm...

[mikeb]

When I was in primary school we had a dress up box and always I used to dress up as ballet dancer with pink tights and tutu or a fairy if that costume was taken lol ...I bet the teachers used to giggle go OMG he's a gay one ...then one day i went with a hairclip in my hair ..the teacher asked why I wearing it and I said cause it keeps my hair out my eyes :) ! I grew out of dressing up like a girl by the time I hit my teens and have no desire to be a drag queen or anything haha !

[badamj2000]

When I was in primary school we had a dress up box and always I used to dress up as ballet dancer with pink tights and tutu or a fairy if that costume was taken lol ...I bet the teachers used to giggle go OMG he's a gay one ...then one day i went with a hairclip in my hair ..the teacher asked why I wearing it and I said cause it keeps my hair out my eyes :) ! I grew out of dressing up like a girl by the time I hit my teens and have no desire to be a drag queen or anything haha !
sissy fag :)

[marky markywicz]

When I was in primary school we had a dress up box and always I used to dress up as ballet dancer with pink tights and tutu or a fairy if that costume was taken lol ...I bet the teachers used to giggle go OMG he's a gay one ...then one day i went with a hairclip in my hair ..the teacher asked why I wearing it and I said cause it keeps my hair out my eyes :) ! I grew out of dressing up like a girl by the time I hit my teens and have no desire to be a drag queen or anything haha !

Such a cute story Mikee... We had the Wendy house in the corner of the Kindergarten.
It was basically a box of drag.
The best thereof was a blue tafeta floral dress with white Nana block high heels and matching white Nana hand bag.

God help any bitch that tried to get into that get up before me.
That shit was my favorite.

A major fight broke out one day when one of the ruff nut twins (Michael) was in my favorite courture whilst I was doing time out for one of my usual dramatic turns.

Well it brought on another turn.
I got parole and rocked up to the Wendy house only to find MICHAEL clip clopping around in my get up, I didn't really have a problem sharing.
I just didn't share my cloths at that stage in life.
I don't recall exactly what transpired but it was fairly ugly, there were tears and anger management classes afterward.

Many years later who do I find is one of those skin head type gays... Michael! :D

[genkij]

When I was in primary school we had a dress up box and always I used to dress up as ballet dancer with pink tights and tutu or a fairy if that costume was taken lol ...I bet the teachers used to giggle go OMG he's a gay one ...then one day i went with a hairclip in my hair ..the teacher asked why I wearing it and I said cause it keeps my hair out my eyes :) ! I grew out of dressing up like a girl by the time I hit my teens and have no desire to be a drag queen or anything haha !

OH but trhe touch of those feminie textiles ! ...Have I said too much ?

[jimmy08]

I love those primary school years. My principal who happened to be our crafts teacher, taught us how to knit, crochet and make friendship bands. I really enjoyed knitting - but the boys back then hated it... it's a shame that I don't remember how to knit anymore! I would love to knit a beanie for myself.

[jimmy08]

I loved the babysitters club books!!
I had a crush in my head on kirsty and dawn..

i read the entire series when i was a big bookworm...


What happened to the ending? I think I stopped reading those books when I was in year nine. The tv series was bad - poor acting and it had completely ruined my vision of Logan.

[marky markywicz]

I love those primary school years. My principal who happened to be our crafts teacher, taught us how to knit, crochet and make friendship bands. I really enjoyed knitting - but the boys back then hated it... it's a shame that I don't remember how to knit anymore! I would love to knit a beanie for myself.

Thanks to the 1st grade I can sew really well by hand.
Looking back I am amazed they taught us that.

So many kids when they move out of home cannot cook, clean, sew, iron or budget.
Maybe a sign of the times, but I think its always been like this.
Particularly with boys. :(

[marky markywicz]

This is such a riveting read.

BUMP

[badamj2000]

Oh my god - this is the BEST thread ever. I love this - what a great idea. there are som any gay things i did as a child. here are some [HEAVILY EDITED] highlights:

- i stuck balloons up my shirt and danced infront of my entire family to sabrina's "boys boys boys". i was like, 10 years old.

- i was glued to the screen whenever Xanadu was televised.

- i also tried to disrobe he-man and gi joe. i remember mother being concerned at how much i played with my sisters' barbie dolls, so she bought me a g.i. joe, and i still remember the terrified look on her face when i went to her and said, "i can't get his underpants to come off."

- i had my photo taken with a cardboard cut out of kylie minogue at grundy world on the gold coast.

- ummm... there may or may not have been some sexual liaisons with my childhood friends in year 5. i recall sharing the bed with my friend chris one night during an innocent sleepover, and in the morning his sister walked in on us naked singing to "phantom of the opera".

that's all i am permitted to say at this time. if i think of anymore i'll be sure to post them!
I may have been guilty of all that sort of thing too. :)

[JayTee]

I used to play with action figures all the time.

My favourite was Beast Man from the He-Man universe (the hairy ranga on the right).

Nothing much has changed......... :)

http://s3.amazonaws.com/bonanzleimages/afu/images/2448/6928/P8050003_01.JPG

http://s3.amazonaws.com/bonanzleimages/afu/images/2448/6928/P8050003_01.JPG

[JayTee]

And this was my preferred method of dressing him.....

http://71.18.43.125/Store18/100_9018.JPG


http://71.18.43.125/Store18/100_9019.JPG

[badamj2000]

Soo hawt!