Gay guys recollect the high school romances and hookups that got away
gets a Heartstopper-level romance in high school—or a chance to experiment, even. And on Reddit, adults are looking back at the near-misses from those years.The conversation kicked off as one r/askgaybros user asked other Redditors if they ever thought back to high school and wondered whether a guy was asking them out on a date.“When I was in high school, there was this guy who would teach me to fight [and] put someone to the ground just so I could stand up for myself,” that user wrote.
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We didn’t talk much. I was sitting outside the school and he walked up to me and asked me if I was interested in going to a concert.
I wasn’t out and had lots of friends, and when we [were] play-fighting I was thinking I feel something but was not 100%. [It took] me five years to pick up on this.”Ah, high school.Soon other gays began to share their stories of emotional missed connections from their queer youth. Here are other tales from the thread:“In high school, I finally found other gay friends.
