Oh my god some of the stuff you all did is awful, I can't decide if you're all pretty horrible people, or whether it's just sad and telling of what our society makes us do out of fear of being ourselves...
I come out fairly young (probably about 14 to friends and 15 to parents). Before then I just did little things, pretended to discuss hot female celebrities with my friends, had a few girlfriends in the early years of high school and tried to convince myself I was sexually attracted to them etc.
I remember inviting some friends over to my house when I was 17 and when I stepped away for a minute or two, they went onto the computer and pulled up the search history, and well....
I'm pretty sure my defense was "huh? what? those must have been pop-up ads. I mean, come on guys, haha..."