Were You Born Gay?

I think that everybody who are gay, are born gay. And I think that everybody who are staight are born straight.

Being that many people including myself think that homosexuality is a combination of genes and environment, that option should be available on the poll. Or perhaps include “none of the above (please explain)” or something to that effect.

I think that every person is born with their sexual orientation. I was born gay.. I know I didn’t choose it and it’s not because of my childhood. I’ve always loved women..their smell, the way their hair falls, the way they feel, kiss, exc. I didn’t choose to be made fun of, to be humiliated by homophobic people, exc.. but I am who I am and I was born this way.

I used to think that “gay” people were born that way. I do believe now that some are. But I also think you can become “gay” or bi when you break down walls and open up to new things. I have been exploring and my thoughts,attitudes and tastes (lol) have changed drastically over the past 10 years.Exploration is a wonderful thing and I do not ignore my feelings like I did before. I love the person.How they make me feel as a whole.Where they be male or female.I am leaning more female now.So I am going to go with it.If you know what I mean.

sexual orientation is definetly genetic. Enviroment is not usually a huge factor. As siblings grow up in the same house, and parents, but have their own sexual identity. The only choice one has is whether or not to acknowledge their true sexual orientation. Some may choose to be gay after a bad experience or pressure, but they in the minority by far!

I grew up in a family where gay was NEVER around. I never saw anyone who was gay and never knew any better. I had a few school crushes…only because they would just keep asking and asking but as I got older I never cared for men to date, but to hang out and play basketball! It took a really good much older friend to say …have you ever thought that you might be a lesbian? After a few months of find out what a lesbian was…I NEVER LOOKED BACK!!!!

Hello people. I have been cross-dressing since the age of nine. I am not normally attracted to guys but when I am dressed as a female it does not bother me to be with a man. I have done this in the past but I do not really want that life style so I have shied away from it. I have always liked women and considered myself a lesbian in that sence.

I think all people are born having the capacity to be attracted to both men as well as women. That is what I think is most natural. However our environment growing up steers us toward heterosexuality. For some people our feelings of attraction to the same sex outweigh the pressure to conform and we take the steps to ‘be gay’ as it’s put.

So my answer is that I don’t think the poll is accurate. I don’t think I was born gay or born straight. I tried to be straight as that’s what I thought was expected of me but decided that I was happier with another woman so am now considered gay.

We are born human and then our environment makes us straight or gay. That’s my thought.

I think that each individual has a different story. I do believe that the majority are born gay and bisexual. I also can understand how life experiences can make an influence.

i’m of the school of thought that subscribes to the notion that we are all born bisexual and at some point we go either way …not out of choice but out of…i dont know…some sort of subconcious decision your body+mind make when you’re like 5 or something (christ; that makes no sense) agg

For myself,I do believe I was born gay.
I guess some people may not be but most people I know say they were born gay.

I don’t think it matters. When has any straight person got asked whether he or she was born or chose to be heterosexual? It is our lives, and trying to find a cause or an origin only helps to perpetuate the notion that it’s not ok, that it’s abnormal. It’s who we are and that is the only thing that matters.

I do not regard my innate lesbian desire as an acquired taste or a mere choice. For me, it is something inborn just like the blood type, and I can’t change it whatever the case. I could feel it ever since I was a child, but I could not name my feelings then. I used to say ‘weird’ things that made enough sense to everybody later on. I knew that I was different, and I suffered a lot because of that. Had it been a choice, I would have chosen not to suffer, but the fact that I suffered means that it is something beyond my capacity to choose on the basis of a conscious decision.

I actually think being gay or straight largely depends on various factors especially experiences earlier in life… at least, that’s why I’m Bi.

I agree that there should be a third option on the poll, something like “well, it’s very complicated….” And for bisexual women (like me) it’s even more complicated — can you choose to love only one gender or the other?

Well.. idk exactly how it happened to me..
my family es extremely religious, i mean the environment wasn’t exactly gay, so maybe i was born gay.

All my life i dated boys. I thought i was into boys, but, 2 and a half years ago i met this girl; i mean, my best friend and we started dating.. if i broke up with her i don’t know if a could date another girl anymore…

I don’t know. And I don’t know how i become gay, maybe i’ve been gay all my life y i didn’t realize this until now..

I mean, everyone has their story. For me, i don’t know..