I recently got some cute gold earrings and had to keep them in for weeks.
For weeks? What made oyu think you had to keep them in for that long?
They were newly pierced, so I had to keep them in, the problem was that I posted a picture on Facebook and all the people thought I was gay.
Getting your ears pierced for the first time can be a very uncomfortable experience especially if people are judging your sexuality because of it. When you first get your ears pierced you should always keep them in and disregard people's comments that they make towards you, I would leave the picture up on Facebook and block everyone that are making rude comments. Allowing these people to make these rude comments towards you will hurt your self-esteem.
I just wanted to get it over with.
That's a good way to look at it. Taking the earrings out because of that would have caused the holes to close and you would have wasted your money. As long as you like your earrings just block those people that are being rude and move on.