My son is 10yrs,and some of his manerisums are similar to that of gay men.
What age can you tell or is it different for each person.

Your son is still very young and will decide what is right for him in his own time. Ask yourself a simple question- does it really matter? He will always be your son!

Good point, ferret, at age 10 would you swap guns for barbies???

My step brother is gay and from a very young age showed feminine tendencies. He struggled for many years with his sexual identity and finally came out about 4 years ago.

My dad (his stepdad) was so cruel to him and I feel this was the reason he felt he could not tell any of us and he became a recluse and hardly went out of the house.

Eventually he came to realise he was what he was and had no control over his preferences. He is now in a happy relationship but the relationship with my dad is beyond repair.

You will need to wait until he is older as most young lads have a few feminine tendancies when they are young & all boys mature at different ages. Try not to make a thing of it though or he might get a complex which will be hard for him to recover from.

Thanks for the replies and I will always love him and support him

when he hit 16 stick him in room with couple of prostitutes and see what he do pmsl

Just wait and let him be wotever he wants.....he will anyway

BLAME THE SPICE GIRLS - my brother new he was gay at the age of 11 he didnt tell anyone till he was 18. he did all the boy stuff as normal as a kid - played with ghost buster figures, loved power rangers THEN THE SPICE GIRLS CAME OUT he had me dress him up as sporty spice bless him!! (i didnt really think much of it i was more interested in making him look stupid LMAO) my pink mini skirt and an adidas bling top, i used a pair of my black school tights over the top of his head for a long pony tail.

the main thing is he is still my brother and i love him to bits, hes still the same brother i always had - just a little more femanin, sensitive.

we have the best nights out round the gay village in manchester..


you wont be able to tell ur son is gay until he admits it to himself.

if he was a girl and swopped dolls for action men would you think he/she was a lesbian? can,t see what it matters,you should love your son no matter what!

i think all men have a feminine side to them.. bless

my daughter told me she was gay 18months ago, I love her to bits and am just glad she has got a partner and is happy, if others have a problem with it that is their loss as she is a very loving young lady with not a nasty bone in her body,

my son is gay i've always known this, even when he was little i could tell by the things that he did, he's 17 now and he is gay and proud and i still love him to bits

good on u billie

Gay blokes are vey good looking

my gay son is very good looking and the saying is true the good looking men are always gay

who cares if ppl r gay or not, ppl are who they are, right????

Totally agree with you here Marie.

depends what you mean by gay mannerisms.

if he hangs out with girls rather than boys? more often just reflects a good relationship with their Mum.

playing with dolls? totally normal, just a lot of little boys parents wont let them.

All my gay friends are different, some fit the stereotype and some you'd never guess in a million years.

10 seems like a very young age to know. I wasn't bothered about boys (in a relationship way, i'm a girl btw) till I was at least 14. From the responses of people on here being gay seems to have lost the stigma it used to have, so don't worry. The 'coming out' bit seems to be the only time that you have to worry and so long as you are open about gay being OK then it should be easier for him if he is, which is still a big 'if'. I dont mean saying 'it's ok if you're gay id dont mind' more like if someone gay is on TV say like, 'isnt he with that bloke form such and such, they make such a lovely couple. In my not-so-long-ago teens i found it easier to talk to my parents in terms of programs we were watching, like visual hypotheticals. If they dissapproved of the behaviour eg drunkeness they saw, teens sharing bedrooms I knew not to do stuff like that (well not in front of them). Sorry, long v long post!!
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