At what age did you first realise you were gay or bi?

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I wasted my teenage years in the early and mid 80s, but that probably saved me from an HIV infection. I already ogled naked guys when I was 10 or 11 and had first boy-crushes at 6, but wanting to have sex with guys started at 13. But I was rather passive about it, jerking off was enough and there were no opportunities to explore things where I grew up. Off course there were no out gay people I could have contacted. Nothing sexual happened until I was 18 and then it took another 4 dry-spell years to finally come out at 22.