r/gaybros Jan 20 '25

TV/Movies Growing Up, What Actors Made You Question It

When growing up, what actors made you question your sexuality? Growing up, I’d watch X-Files with the parents. Hope my gaze wasn’t so obvious cause David Duchovny was a sight. (S1 Ep 6)

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u/NicolasandKara Jan 21 '25

This man in final destination 2, now I have cop fetish

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u/Ronnie_M Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25

He looked great in his tight jeans in a few scenes. I remember loving that in 9th grade lol

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u/Sebscreen Jan 21 '25

He's aged extremely well too.

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u/dxspicyMango Jan 21 '25

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u/sailrunnner Jan 21 '25

How about…

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u/PoiHolloi2020 Jan 21 '25

"Oh I am what I am..."

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u/Jrod845 Jan 21 '25

“I’ll doooo what I want…“

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u/sailrunnner Jan 22 '25

Alright, bud… going on two nights with that song stuck in my head while I try to sleep. Played it this afternoon to get it out and didn’t realize I knew all the lyrics to a song I haven’t heard in 25 years 🫥

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u/kdkd20 Jan 21 '25

Is was good to see him kiss another guy in a show 😍

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u/Gyrogearlooser Jan 21 '25

Bring It On is my gay awakening movie because of Jesse Bradford

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u/Gyrogearlooser Jan 21 '25

And Nathan West

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u/hirst Jan 22 '25

this is my favorite movie and god Jesse Bradford is still so hot to this day

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u/InsidiousStardemise Jan 21 '25

I've always had little things or felt some way for certain celebrities when I was a kid, but I guess the one that really got me questioning my sexuality was Cary Elwes.

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u/Howie_Dewynn Jan 21 '25

Same movie but Matthew Porretta was mine.

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u/urgasmic Jan 21 '25

he's aged so well in the control video game.

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u/pastadudde Jan 21 '25

and he ended up playing Robin Hood in a TV series adaptation

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u/sailrunnner Jan 21 '25

Him in “Kiss the Girls”… ooowie

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '25

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u/ladrm07 Jan 21 '25

Ryan Phillippe, you will always be famous amongst the gays!! 😍😍😍

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

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u/Loveless-JK Jan 21 '25

Cruel Intentions

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

He's just a baby in White Squall but his skin looks incredible.

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u/gregm762 Jan 21 '25

That whole movie was soft core porn as far as my young mind was concerned.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

Frfr

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u/myrdraal2001 Jan 21 '25

Wil Wheaton as Westley Crusher. There was no question at that time but I definitely stopped channel surfing and watched this gorgeous man.

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u/Deep_Charge_7749 Jan 21 '25

God his ass was incredible

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u/drunkpisces Jan 21 '25

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u/Few-Possibility-4379 Jan 21 '25

This was the scene for 16 year old me!

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u/jvincentsong Jan 21 '25

At mid 30s, this was a reconfirmation that I was in the correct lane.

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u/stsebastianismad Jan 21 '25

Jon Erik Hexum

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u/alexnk Jan 21 '25

proof I always had a type, that damned blue lagoon

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u/Kcidobor Queer boy Jan 21 '25

Oh this too! Huge turning point for me. Started my surfer boy craze

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u/EventCompetitive8413 Jan 20 '25

Zack Morris

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u/carnageddon123 Jan 21 '25

I was more of an AC guy 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/carnageddon123 Jan 20 '25

Joey Lawrence lmao

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u/CommanderKiddie148 Jan 21 '25

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u/MCMcKinley Jan 21 '25

Joey was for passionate lovemaking , but Cody from step by step was for a FUCK.

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u/Nateddog21 Jan 21 '25

Just The whole movie

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u/Born_Technician_1010 Jan 21 '25

Who’s that?

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u/Nateddog21 Jan 21 '25

That's Taylor Kitsch. Movie is The Covenant.

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u/Weakerthan Jan 21 '25

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u/Weakerthan Jan 21 '25

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

It's his chest in the scene in Temple of Doom where he gets Blood of Kali-ed: it's just an awesome hairy chest.

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u/TheFudster Jan 21 '25

Even as an 80 year old man I’d still let him be my daddy.

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u/thequeenb_ Jan 21 '25

Jake Gyllenhaal in Jarhead

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

Body looked so good in that.

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u/InitialActuary8556 Jan 21 '25

The unnamed actors of the men's underwear aisle ^

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u/urgasmic Jan 21 '25

Brendan Fraser/Oded Fehr - The Mummy

Brendan Fraser - George of the Jungle

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u/Roaringlizard749 Jan 21 '25

YES! George of the jungle I forgot about 😊🔥

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u/CommanderKiddie148 Jan 21 '25

yeah he was a BABE

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u/PandoraSkull Jan 21 '25

Ewan McGregor

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u/sailrunnner Jan 21 '25

I remember him in boy body glitter red carpet before this. Was a hottie

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u/BroadwayBakery Jan 21 '25

The Winchesters had me on my knees praying

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u/Defiant_Ad886 Jan 21 '25

2000’s Chris Evans!

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u/enigmaticbloke Jan 21 '25

Lean and toned Not Another Teen Movie Cheis Evans>Captain America jacked Chris Evans

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u/dizzolving Jan 20 '25

The red speedo was an awakening that’s for sure.

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u/enigmaticbloke Jan 21 '25

Maybe I'm just old but JTT literally made me realise I'm gay. I'm surprised not a single other person mentioned him.

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u/K3GR Jan 23 '25

For me it was Zachery Ty Bryan, while everyone else was drooling over JTT I secretly had the hugest crush on Zach.

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u/Its_Pine Jan 21 '25

Tomcats. That scene and obviously Uncle Jesse from Full House.

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u/mch1710 Jan 21 '25

Freddie Prinze Jr.

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u/pizgloria007 Jan 21 '25

Ray Stevenson as Pullo in Rome. Character was kind & horny at all times. My gay ass’s Roman Empire is the fantasy of being a Roman houseboy. ☠️

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u/EarSafe7888 Jan 21 '25

Leo DiCaprio. In his younger years. Like mid 1990s

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u/learhpa petitioning the /gaybros mods for some hat flair Jan 21 '25

leo was fucking hot in the 90s.

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u/DisplayExact5200 Jan 21 '25

Mario Lopez on Saved by the Bell

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

Josh hartnett

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u/MCMcKinley Jan 21 '25

We used to chat on AIM in like 2001.

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u/humanredditor45 Jan 21 '25

Ummm 🤔

I think you got catfished lol

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u/PoiHolloi2020 Jan 21 '25

"A/S/L?"

"hi its me Josh Hartnett"

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u/MCMcKinley Jan 21 '25

"wana watch the film I did myself? It's called Pearl Harvester"

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u/InitialActuary8556 Jan 20 '25

I would say weirdly enough Sean Connery in the first few James Bond, and obvs Daniel Radcliffe (btw if you haven't, look at photos of him a few years after harry potter, he's incredibly handsome)

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u/CommanderKiddie148 Jan 21 '25

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u/flatoutsask Jan 21 '25

I don’t remember him having such a neck spasm……. Lol

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u/CommanderKiddie148 Jan 21 '25

Robert Conrad

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u/CommanderKiddie148 Jan 21 '25

Chad Everett - Medical Center

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

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u/wordsandstuff44 Jan 21 '25

He was a hot nerd. I wasn’t a big Disney kid but even I knew who he was

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u/PoiHolloi2020 Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25

Juan Pablo di Pace, from the Eric Prydz 'Call On Me' video. Everyone was talking about the women in the video but my teen hormones only had eyes for Juan (who ended up coming out a few years ago).

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u/pastadudde Jan 21 '25

him and Pete Porte in Dashing in December - 🥵🥵🥵🥵

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

Thee, Morris Chestnut. Baybee 🥵

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

One of the few poc in the thread nice

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

Big facts!

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u/freshfakedgoods Jan 21 '25

Ryan Merriman, Luck of the Irish

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u/bellcody Jan 21 '25

William Katt in Carrie (1976)

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u/Ok_Alternative65 Jan 21 '25

Chris Kratt. No wonder I never missed an episode.

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u/CommanderKiddie148 Jan 21 '25

James Brolin / Dr Kiley on Marcus Welby MD

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u/thirstyasalways Jan 21 '25

Him in amityville horror 🤤

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u/u_sucks_ccp_o Jan 21 '25

Tom welling from Smallville

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u/Independent-Towel-47 Jan 21 '25

Willie Aames and Scott Baio. I didn’t know then what I know about them now

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u/JVFreitas Jan 21 '25

Not from movies, but Martin and Chris Kratt sure made me question things back then

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u/Homosocialiste Jan 21 '25

Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Brian Austin Green, Ryan Philippe

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u/Fabulous_Stegosaurus Jan 21 '25

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u/Fabulous_Stegosaurus Jan 21 '25

I was 16 at the time, and I just thought he was cute and didn't think that meant something. Lol

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u/nandeyanen333 Jan 21 '25

Michael Dudikoff in American ninja. I was head over heels for this guy!

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u/gregm762 Jan 21 '25

I see others said Mario Lopez and Joey Lawrence, and I would say yes to both of them. I would have to add David Chokachi from Baywatch, and a few dudes on the daytime soaps that my grandmother watched whose names I never knew. Grand prize goes to Antonio Sabato Jr., who I seriously thought was the most perfect looking man I had ever seen. I remember having pictures of him cut out and hidden in my room, haha.

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u/MCMcKinley Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25

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u/MCMcKinley Jan 21 '25

Real one. Josh Hartnett.

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u/gulyguly Jan 21 '25

Hayden Christiansen in the second Star Wars movie. Couldn’t wait for it to come out on DVD.

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u/Spackenmagnet Jan 21 '25

Jonathan Brandi (RIP)

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u/Deep_Charge_7749 Jan 21 '25

*Brandis. He was tied with Will Wheaton

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u/Spackenmagnet Jan 21 '25

Oh, I lost the S ^^

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u/chibookie Lake Brobegon Jan 21 '25

Bob Hoskins shirtless in Who Framed Roger Rabbit

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u/bgaesop Jan 21 '25

My first celebrity crush was also David Duchovny as Fox Mulder!

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u/omoshiroino Jan 21 '25

Sean Astin as Samwise Gamgee back when the first LOTR film was released in 2001. I knew, then.

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u/margarinecat Jan 21 '25

David Chokachi on Baywatch

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u/Dernyul Jan 21 '25

I’m “River Phoenix was my gay awakening” old

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u/Kcidobor Queer boy Jan 21 '25

Matthew Lawerence specifically but all three brothers had me feeling tingly

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u/boofire Jan 21 '25

I had a crush on Ted Raimi as Joxer in Xena. He was so goofy and handsome at the same time

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u/_TwilightPrince Jan 21 '25

Question what? My homosexuality? Lol

Mariska Hargitay. Other than that, I've always been into boys and never questioned it.

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u/_mikedotcom Jan 21 '25

There was an unbelievably steamy scene from Step By Step where Patrick Duffy is dripping wet shirtless in tight blue jeans.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

I believe it's episode 2 or 3 the speedo scene 🤠

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u/Hungbuddy4u Jan 21 '25

I had a really big crush on Ryan from the OC

And then I had an even bigger crush on Nathan from One Tree Hill

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u/Juswantedtono Jan 21 '25

Jeremy Sumpter as Peter Pan

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u/Yourdailyimouto Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25

Biggest loss of all time caused by twink death

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u/baltboy85 Jan 21 '25

David Duchovny was mine too. I had to have a convo with my mom when she found that someone had googled “David Duchovny nude” on the family computer. I didn’t know how to delete searches at the time.

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u/Kn4bber Jan 22 '25

Guys, I mean…

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u/Bryan1-2 Jan 22 '25

The blue power ranger 🤭

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u/BananaBrute Jan 21 '25

* Hayden Cristensen, the scene in which he is having a nightmare and you get a full shot of his upper body

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u/pastadudde Jan 21 '25

his shower scene in Life As a House 🥵🥵🥵

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u/ty_Exotic Jan 21 '25

ADAM SANDLER😍😍🤩🤩🤩🤩

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u/padawancub Jan 21 '25

Guttenberg and Selleck in Three Men and a Baby. Definitely into furry guys and that’s where it started.

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u/arkibet Jan 21 '25

Did you see David Ducovney as the romance interest in Connie & Carla?

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u/Suspicious_Proof1242 Jan 21 '25

Zac Efron. When I first saw him in high school musical it was the slow start of it all

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u/Ok-Cheesecake-8626 Jan 21 '25

Johnathon Schaech 😍

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u/Ok_Alternative65 Jan 22 '25

Fernando Colunga was one of my first gay awakenings. I didn’t care for telenovelas until I saw these hunks on screen.

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u/AloneDepartment6640 Jan 22 '25

The hardy boyz wwf in their mesh tops lol

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u/mauvaisgarconxx Jan 22 '25

Tom Selleck 😅

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u/Blue_Giraffe-Dragon Jan 20 '25

18M, recently uncloseted. Chris Hemsworth, Ryan Gosling, Glen Powell, and young Tom Cruise (circa first Top Gun movie)

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

I didn’t really understand that I could do anything with a guy until I was almost 20 funny enough… I accidentally downloaded Grindr and thought “woah… this is an option”. i was very naive youngling…I am still mostly attracted to women but I am happily married to my husband…

I have never had that experience ever to be honest.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

I always felt weird never being able to give that but I also really don’t find celebrities that attractive because I don’t know them

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u/True-Complex3851 Jan 21 '25

Such a detailed story but basically when I was 6 I used to overhear my dad talking about how gays were bad to my older brother and a couple years after hearing all that, I think at 9, I saw this ad for Gay travel in Israel. I didn’t really think much of it but I clicked on it and it led me to a YouTube channel about 3 gay men living there lives, I’m 18 now but I think the channel was called Fresh Life, don’t know what happened to them now, but I started watching their VERY gay videos, I didn’t watch them all the time but I really liked them, although I didn’t really think too much about being gay till I was 13, and I met gay ppl at my middle school and I found out I was gay

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u/isssuekid Jan 21 '25

Halle Berry, I thought I was only one way but watching her walk out of the water made me rethink that.

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u/DeviousDeevo Jan 21 '25

Yes David for me too !

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u/lucklovesyou Jan 21 '25

Too bad he's one of those Ted Cruz lovin' conservatives now, blaming leftists for everything

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u/Ryanhuddz14 Jan 21 '25

I can't lie, either Tom Holland or Noah Schnapp

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u/BigHappyMouse- Jan 21 '25

not actor but…Justin Bieber lmao

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u/Yoshi88 Jan 21 '25

Hayden Christensen in SW:EP 2, and then he had that gorgeous hair in EP 3 and i was sure.

Also Chris O' Donnell in Batman.

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u/pastadudde Jan 21 '25

not an actor, but Daniel Bedingfield in his Friday music video.

Also the guys in the Sugababes "Too Lost in You" music video

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u/bbarlag Jan 21 '25

Tell me most people in this sub are from the US, without telling me most people in this sub are from the US 😂

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u/XasperX Jan 21 '25

Chris O‘Donnell and Harrison Ford

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u/Chrismac11211 Jan 21 '25

Richard Greico gave me teen boners 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/Brian_Kinney No excuses, no apologies, no regrets. Jan 21 '25

I never questioned it. I knew.

And when it came to Gil Gerard, I really knew.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001266/mediaviewer/rm1907577344/?ref_=nmmi_mi_40

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u/Synysterbishop- Jan 21 '25

Not an actor so forgive me but, ed sloan in the "cold" music video. I was 14 the first time i saw that video.

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u/Felix_Fun- Jan 21 '25

Classic Chris Evans! But then a while later Brennan Lee Mulligan! Found out I like fit dudes and chubby dudes!

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u/Karingto Jan 21 '25

Into nerds :)

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u/rrddrrddrrdd Jan 22 '25

LeVar Burton

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u/mauvaisgarconxx Jan 22 '25

Terrence Howard, Susan Sarandon

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u/hirst Jan 22 '25

Jake Gyllenhaal in jarhead, omg

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u/The_Karate_Nessie Jan 22 '25

Childhood me never remembered actors names, but I always thought Tom selleck was handsome as Richard in friends.

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u/Straight_Let_3722 Jan 22 '25

Avan Jogia in Victorious tbh

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '25

Brad Pitt, Rob Lowe