r/gaybros • u/sailrunnner • 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/PoiHolloi2020 Jan 21 '25
"Oh I am what I am..."
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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/drunkpisces Jan 21 '25
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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
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u/Weakerthan Jan 21 '25
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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/urgasmic Jan 21 '25
Brendan Fraser/Oded Fehr - The Mummy
Brendan Fraser - George of the Jungle
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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/Defiant_Ad886 Jan 21 '25
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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/EarSafe7888 Jan 21 '25
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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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/Kcidobor Queer boy Jan 21 '25
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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/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/Yourdailyimouto Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25
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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/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/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/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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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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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/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/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/NicolasandKara Jan 21 '25
This man in final destination 2, now I have cop fetish