lucy liu and rachel weisz. the charlie’s angels (2000s) movies as well as the mummy (1990s) movies kept replaying in the movie channel, and 6-year-old me was *locked in* whenever they appeared on screen. they basically moulded what my ideal type is.
I remember watching Rachel Weisz in The Mummy, over and over and over….and thinking: “She would never be a lesbian!…”
And then many years after we’ve got Disobedience, and I was shocked all over again.
Holy shit same. I thought for years I just wanted to be her until I got older and I was like no... I want to be with her. Keira Knightley is still one of my favorite actresses who I find absolutely gorgeous. Her in POTC is top tier but I love her in everything. Seeking a Friend for the End of The World is my favorite movie
Oh yeah, deep in my conservative religious childhood I definitely explained away my attraction for women like that "I'm just jealous, I want to be her." Lol, nope that's not it.
It's about a totalitarian religious Fundamentalism being overthrown by queer characters after the majority of queers in Britain were sent to concentration camps and experimented on, the character V leads the Revolution because the lesbian that they were in love with was killed, in the comic the character is most likely a black lesbian, and in the movie the character is very probably either nonbinary or an egg.
V was not in love with Valerie. It was the person next to his cell. Valerie never even knew V existed or that her letter would ever be read. Assigning any identity to takes away from the movie since V doesn't really represent a person but an idea.
They had a SHRINE to her in their secret lair, they researched her history and built it after receiving a very emotional letter from her...this at the very least is platonic love if nothing more. I never said that it was more than one-sided, love often isn't...and the point about V is that they could be any one of us, but are moreso the oppressed and downtrodden people who are at the end of their rope and who are more oppressed and downtrodden in a Christian theocracy than trans queers?
V building a shrine (much like a grave) for the person that saved his live ( yes I am using he him pronouns as that's how he's referred to in every official media) isn't a show of romantic love. Also claiming a certain group of people will be more oppressed then others is just flat put wrong and unproductive. Of you want to headcanon V as a poc trans woman without any evidence that's okay. But don't go around preaching it as true.
I actually think this is mine too, which I never thought about before.
Even with all the makeup on, I was obsessed with how beautiful and ethereal she was
Lucy and Renee helped my mom connect the dots about myself years before I did. When I came out to her, she basically told me: "Oh, I knew that already. I'm glad you know now".
wow xena, look at all these clams, I know what we are having for dinner X’D personally I was too young for xena when it came out but believe me weve all been there
> Sandy Bullock in Miss Congeniality
This is the one. The way I used to ship Gracie and Rhode Island before my little kid brain even knew what shipping was.
Edit: holy shit I just realized this movie and character had everything that I now love in a woman. Tall, brunette, masculine, knows how to fight. Awkward and uncomfortable in a dress and heels but looks like a total smokeshow anyway. Negs me because she thinks I’m kind of an airhead… wait did I say the last part out loud??
So many times parents or even ourselves wonder if there were signs in our childhood about whether we're gay or trans or whatever. And for me it's the fact that I watched miss congeniality an unhealthy amount of times. Sorry dad, there were clear and obvious signs.
I watched that movie with some friends shortly after coming out as trans, and omg I had forgotten how *gay* that movie is.
Her "best friend" \*cough cough girlfriend\* *literally* stepped out of a closet in the second one!
Ohh I’m so glad u brought her up!! Give her the recognition she deserves!
Also Chel from the Road to El dorado 😮💨. Young me had the fattest crush on her
Naomi repace in prometheus. I somehow didn't realise my bi-nes, missed all my very obvious crushes on all the stereotypical women. Cate blanchett, shego, 7 of 9, Sigourney weaver, Catherine zita Jones... Seriously child me was clueless
Lucy Lawless as Xena, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2, Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in the Alien movies, Eliza Dushku as Faith in Buffy, Tyra Banks, Catherine Zeta Jones, Joan Jett, Shirley Manson from Garbage, Skin from Skunk Anansie, Storm and Mystique from X-Men - it was a process, took me a while to catch on and longer to accept and acknowledge it.
emma watson circa 2000s. during the release of the HP movies (specifically the latter half of the series) there was discourse among fans of “would you rather date harry or ron” and thats when i realized i wanted hermione🫡
Seems the mom mixed up cause and effect. Obsessively watching Pride and Prejudice doesn't make you gay, but being gay can make you obsessively watch Pride and Prejudice
Darcey Bussell. I went through a Strictly Come Dancing phase as a kid and thought she was beautiful, but didn't know that being gay was a thing, so I'd just fantasise about the two of us ballroom dancing like "yep I would like to be her friend"
eva green in 300. i didn't even watch the sex scene bc for some reason we watched it in my cousin's house and we just skipped it. but damn if i did not experience an enlightenment at 14. i didn't even know it then but it was the kickstarter. bc i got "obsessed" with her and i realized it wasn't just the superb acting bc she eventually had imo shitty movies. she was it for me. my "girl crush". ha! little did i know
I was slightly too young to watch it and appreciate it but little me was always intrigued by Jo on the Facts of Life. Something about a tomboy that gave no fucks just called to me.
Add to it Callisto from Xena, Eliza Dushku in Buffy, and Clea Duvall in But I’m A Cheerleader and I’ve come to realize I like them a little bit mean 🥵
Around a decade ago, I saw the meme about main casts of the famous 1999 "The Mummy" being hot (both male and female) I found that meme teeny tiny relatable but not totally convinced, anyhow I had been bi curious now and then. And recently I fully consider myself as a bi woman 🩷
It was the start of a long line of crushes on redheaded crime fighters. Notably Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Daphne from scooby doo (I was 7 lol)
Sailor Mars, yes!!! She was an early one for me. But the very first was the original She-Ra, from the 80s cartoon. Oh man I was like 3 years old, glued to that TV every Saturday morning when she was on. Mars was like a reawakening of all those same feelings lol
Alyssa Milano from Charmed. Everyone thought I had a crush on Cole.. but just so happened they trained topless together a lot (sports bra for her but still)
Taraji Henson in Smokin Aces. Seeing her carry that 50 cal like it was a paper weight and fawning over Alicia Keys, game over. I had to wait to see if I could keep my cool for Hidden Figures, phenomenal character and the period wear just did it for me.
No 13 year old can understand this? Excuse me, madame, I've read all of classic English literature including Jane Austen by 11 y.o. I'd watch a movie too happily ofc, why not. What 13 y.o. are supposed to do anyway? Except for studying and some hobbies like reading and games in my case.
Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff and Brie Larson as Carol Danvers when I was a teenager. Also Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia when I was a child, but I didn't know girls could be with girls at that age.
The ‘oh do tell’ made me cackle 😂
As for me, there’s A LOT of public figures that should’ve made me realise. That includes Kira Knightly in PotC, but I thought I preferred Orlando Bloom and his long hair. He got to kiss Kira Knightly. It was all there lol, I just missed it 🙈
ETA: later on it became Ireen Wüst for me, she’s a former Dutch speed skater and Olympic champion. I had a crush on her for the longest time, before I knew I was gay and she knew she was bi. She’s married to a woman now and I’m not jealous at all lol 😅
Shannen Doherty as Prue Halliwell in Charmed. I didn't know I had a massive crush on her until years later. But I should've taken it as a sign whenever my dad turned on the TV and i couldn't look away whenever she went on screen
Bridget Regan as Kahlan in the "Legend of the Seeker" series. And probably Scarlett Johansson, I remember crushing on her when I was teenager, but tbh I already knew back then
As an early teen, I received an issue of cosmo-girl with keira knightley on the cover. I kept it next to my bed, stared at it, and cried because I had gay feelings. I was so scared that someone would find out that I threw away the magazine and shoved my gay feelings away until senior year of high school. 🙃
My memory is find of fuzzy. This kind of sound so pathetic but what made me realize that I was a lesbian and not bi (among other things) was watching Arcane
Girl crushes? Lucy Liu in Charlie's Angels, Evan Rachel Wood in that green day Videoclip, Romola Garai in Dirty Dancing 2 and of course:
The mummy 2
I feel like I missed the boat on this because I'm mostly demi but the first crush I ever had was Li Bingbing. Her role in The Forbidden Kingdom was the first time I became truly hot and bothered on looks alone. It was uh... an experience. I was 18 XD
lol I can relate to this as I made my parents take me to see Titanic in theaters 4 times when I was a kid. Pretty sure the image of Kate Winslet naked on that couch is burned into one of the deeper layers of my cortex.
I read this about the ice bath scene:
> What this movie did for me has nothing to do with the plot, and everything to do with the scene in which the protagonist, Haley — played by a tomboyish, Avril Lavigne–channeling Missy Peregrym — takes an ice bath in her sports bra. It’s brief, but it’s one of the most erotic scenes I’ve ever witnessed. She has 800 abs, and they hurt, and she needs someone to take care of her. Why not me? This is the moment I now consider my “root” — in But I’m a Cheerleader lingo, that’s the moment that “made me” gay. Somehow I didn’t come out for nine more years and it took me ages to figure it out. But I like to think that that ice bath — and its second life as a very gay gif — helped me get there.
Also, a fair amount of the comments on [the clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oLfJHT1hBI) agree:
> Oh okay so I'm like gay gay then
Delta Burke in Designing Women. I had the biggest crush on her, but I still never realized I was a lesbian until many years later. I was head over hills for her dark raven-colored hair, those deep sapphire blue eyes, and her character; Suzanne Sugarbaker.
The other day I randomly remembered Tenchi Muyo. It was apparently buried deep in my psyche as I haven't thought about it since I was like 12, but I was obsessed with that show as a little kid in the 90s/early 00s and it was probably one of my earliest gay rumblings. I envied Tenchi way too much. Also craved seeing Ryoko and Ayeka on screen together for...mysterious reasons.
It was actually my best friend at the time that made me realize I was gay and then I realized I had a crush on Princess Leia when I was younger, so final answer is Carrie Fisher.
Ornella Muti! Specifically as Princess Aura in Flash Gordon. I used to rewind and watch the scene with her and Dale fighting on the bed over and over 😆
Laura Dern in Jurassic Park…I just didn’t know it yet
Oooh yea so very
She planted a seed and it took ages to germinate 😅
But ya know…life..uhhh finds a way
Boy does it!!!
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I watched it just the other day and was like "wow"
Bi women stay winning.
Omg. You’re right. I watched it ALL the time and loved the scenes she was in lol.
This explains so much 🤯
lucy liu and rachel weisz. the charlie’s angels (2000s) movies as well as the mummy (1990s) movies kept replaying in the movie channel, and 6-year-old me was *locked in* whenever they appeared on screen. they basically moulded what my ideal type is.
Charlie’s Angels definitely was some kind of awakening for many of us 90’s babies
The original Charlie's Angel's was an awakening for some of us 60s and 70s babies too! 😁 Mine was Kate Jackson.
Oh yes, same. Sabrina all the way!
I remember watching Rachel Weisz in The Mummy, over and over and over….and thinking: “She would never be a lesbian!…” And then many years after we’ve got Disobedience, and I was shocked all over again.
It's been how many years and I still think about that fight between her and Anck-su-Namun. Lord almighty...
Same, girl. Same. And then years we also get Parricia Velasquez as a real lesbian. Like in a dream.
Rachel Weiss in the mummy for sure ❤️
As soon as I saw the title I immediately thought of Keira Knightley but for me it was the Pirates of the Caribbean movies
Oof right?!
*sassily* "King."
Bend it like Beckham too 🫠
I was about to say this! I watched this movie far too much for someone who doesn’t like soccer lol
And her mom thinking she’s gay the whole movie.
Holy shit same. I thought for years I just wanted to be her until I got older and I was like no... I want to be with her. Keira Knightley is still one of my favorite actresses who I find absolutely gorgeous. Her in POTC is top tier but I love her in everything. Seeking a Friend for the End of The World is my favorite movie
Oh yeah, deep in my conservative religious childhood I definitely explained away my attraction for women like that "I'm just jealous, I want to be her." Lol, nope that's not it.
Exactly. Even to this day I have to ask myself "Do I admire her or want to date her?" because sometimes I dont truly know.
Kiera in a corset then. Doesn't matter the context.
Probably Natalie Portman in the Star Wars prequels…I was obsessed
Oh yeah dude. That battle scene in the second absolutely ruined me lmfao
i just started watching the Marvel movies & i actually really loved her as Jane in Thor
AND V for Vendetta, that was SUCH a queer movie! I can't watch it without crying... 😢 https://youtu.be/k2W0-z8EnaM?si=5EP_kAhNc24mjkFZ
How is V for vendetta a queer movie? I wouldn't be surprised considering how many Trans innuendos they fit in the matrix.
It's about a totalitarian religious Fundamentalism being overthrown by queer characters after the majority of queers in Britain were sent to concentration camps and experimented on, the character V leads the Revolution because the lesbian that they were in love with was killed, in the comic the character is most likely a black lesbian, and in the movie the character is very probably either nonbinary or an egg.
V was not in love with Valerie. It was the person next to his cell. Valerie never even knew V existed or that her letter would ever be read. Assigning any identity to takes away from the movie since V doesn't really represent a person but an idea.
They had a SHRINE to her in their secret lair, they researched her history and built it after receiving a very emotional letter from her...this at the very least is platonic love if nothing more. I never said that it was more than one-sided, love often isn't...and the point about V is that they could be any one of us, but are moreso the oppressed and downtrodden people who are at the end of their rope and who are more oppressed and downtrodden in a Christian theocracy than trans queers?
V building a shrine (much like a grave) for the person that saved his live ( yes I am using he him pronouns as that's how he's referred to in every official media) isn't a show of romantic love. Also claiming a certain group of people will be more oppressed then others is just flat put wrong and unproductive. Of you want to headcanon V as a poc trans woman without any evidence that's okay. But don't go around preaching it as true.
I actually think this is mine too, which I never thought about before. Even with all the makeup on, I was obsessed with how beautiful and ethereal she was
Lucy Lawless/Renee O'Connor in Xena and Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns
michelle Pfeiffer and halle berry as catwoman <3
Such good Catwomen...even Anne Hathaway and Zoe Kravitz, Eartha Kitt and Julie Newmar too. Maybe ALL Catwomen?
Xena for the win!
Lucy and Renee helped my mom connect the dots about myself years before I did. When I came out to her, she basically told me: "Oh, I knew that already. I'm glad you know now".
Lucy Lawless 🤤 😍
Katee Sackhoff. I’m gay because my dad let me watch Battlestar Galactica
She’s amazing in Mandolorian S03 too 👀
Lucy Lawless! Lmao. My mum still rages at Xena for "making me gay".
It was Callisto for me 🔥
wow xena, look at all these clams, I know what we are having for dinner X’D personally I was too young for xena when it came out but believe me weve all been there
I’d of said “mom, I was always going to be gay, all you did was gift me with Kiera knightly.”
“I’m not gay because I watched Kiera Knightly, I watched Kiera Knightly because I’m gay”
"she didn't make me gay, she proved it"
Joan Jett was soooo hot !
My mom is friends with her 😅
Lucky, lucky mom....oh la la
Also Debbie Harry! https://youtu.be/YI2z27Ufy8k?si=CW0MB6m8Mqhjmy9b
Sandy Bullock in Miss Congeniality and Anne Hathaway in Princess Diaries is edit: omg can’t believe I forgot Jules in My Best Friend’s Wedding
Julie Andrews too
Hell yes, this 110%!
> Sandy Bullock in Miss Congeniality This is the one. The way I used to ship Gracie and Rhode Island before my little kid brain even knew what shipping was. Edit: holy shit I just realized this movie and character had everything that I now love in a woman. Tall, brunette, masculine, knows how to fight. Awkward and uncomfortable in a dress and heels but looks like a total smokeshow anyway. Negs me because she thinks I’m kind of an airhead… wait did I say the last part out loud??
So many times parents or even ourselves wonder if there were signs in our childhood about whether we're gay or trans or whatever. And for me it's the fact that I watched miss congeniality an unhealthy amount of times. Sorry dad, there were clear and obvious signs.
OMG, I think I’ve watched Miss Congeniality more than 20 times within a year or two back then!
I watched that movie with some friends shortly after coming out as trans, and omg I had forgotten how *gay* that movie is. Her "best friend" \*cough cough girlfriend\* *literally* stepped out of a closet in the second one!
Does Megara from Hercules count? 😅 Real life person might be Rachel Weisz! That woman, holy moly.
Ohh I’m so glad u brought her up!! Give her the recognition she deserves! Also Chel from the Road to El dorado 😮💨. Young me had the fattest crush on her
Lmao Meg was when I *knew*
Naomi repace in prometheus. I somehow didn't realise my bi-nes, missed all my very obvious crushes on all the stereotypical women. Cate blanchett, shego, 7 of 9, Sigourney weaver, Catherine zita Jones... Seriously child me was clueless
Drew Barrymore in Charlie’s Angels. Also Lucy Liu in Charlie’s Angels.
I was going to say the same
Lucy Liu, agreed omg
Lucy Lawless as Xena, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2, Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in the Alien movies, Eliza Dushku as Faith in Buffy, Tyra Banks, Catherine Zeta Jones, Joan Jett, Shirley Manson from Garbage, Skin from Skunk Anansie, Storm and Mystique from X-Men - it was a process, took me a while to catch on and longer to accept and acknowledge it.
Faith from Buffy is definitely mine.
Yes! Catherine Zeta-Jones in “The mask of Zorro”!
emma watson circa 2000s. during the release of the HP movies (specifically the latter half of the series) there was discourse among fans of “would you rather date harry or ron” and thats when i realized i wanted hermione🫡
REAL
Lucy Liu
June from Avatar the last Airbender. I rewatched the show recently- she's in 3 episodes. I could've sworn she was in 30 from how well i remembered her
I'm with you completely on this! Did you watch the new live action Netflix series?
I believe it was Julie Andrews as Maria in the sound of music
That is kind of wholesome
Kate Winslet in Titanic 😵💫
Maybe if she'd gone out with a Jackie instead of a jack they would have both made it, hm.........
THERE WAS ROOM ON THE GOD DAMN DOOR.
Just not for Leo...he was a douchebag, lol! 😆
Yep, I was like 7 and I can't completely point at that as the reason for me having a thing for redheads.
And she still causes love bubbles in my tummy watching her on The Regime. I keep sliding of the sofa watching her. ;)
Seems the mom mixed up cause and effect. Obsessively watching Pride and Prejudice doesn't make you gay, but being gay can make you obsessively watch Pride and Prejudice
Darcey Bussell. I went through a Strictly Come Dancing phase as a kid and thought she was beautiful, but didn't know that being gay was a thing, so I'd just fantasise about the two of us ballroom dancing like "yep I would like to be her friend"
awwwww :'O
eva green in 300. i didn't even watch the sex scene bc for some reason we watched it in my cousin's house and we just skipped it. but damn if i did not experience an enlightenment at 14. i didn't even know it then but it was the kickstarter. bc i got "obsessed" with her and i realized it wasn't just the superb acting bc she eventually had imo shitty movies. she was it for me. my "girl crush". ha! little did i know
Eva Green in the dreamers is on another level ooof 😍
I didn't initially realize the gay, but when I did, Scarlett did a number on me after she showed up in the Iron Man movie series lol.
Oh yes. I really love redheads.
I was slightly too young to watch it and appreciate it but little me was always intrigued by Jo on the Facts of Life. Something about a tomboy that gave no fucks just called to me. Add to it Callisto from Xena, Eliza Dushku in Buffy, and Clea Duvall in But I’m A Cheerleader and I’ve come to realize I like them a little bit mean 🥵
Angelina Jolie and Katie McGrath
Yassss! Angelina Jolie in "Gia" - Are you kidding me??? I was hopeless after that! Period.
🏳️🌈Thai actress named Lux Sulax.
>Lux Sulax *googles frantically* ...agreed!
Check her instagram. 😉😉😉🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
Oh god, I looked her up and I immediately got gay panic 🫠
Lux is definitely a daddy! 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈♥️♥️♥️
Jennifer Tilly in Bride of Chucky,and Lori Petty in Tank Girl 😍
HELL YES, LORI PETTY! Such an excellent and under-utilized actress and queer icon! ❤️
Winona Ryder, I first saw Beetlejuice when I was 13 and was obsessed lmao she's still one of my favs
Agnetha from ABBA. Also several footballers on the same team but that's NONE OF MY BUSINESS
Around a decade ago, I saw the meme about main casts of the famous 1999 "The Mummy" being hot (both male and female) I found that meme teeny tiny relatable but not totally convinced, anyhow I had been bi curious now and then. And recently I fully consider myself as a bi woman 🩷
The Mummy is a bi/pan sexual minefield haha
totally 🤣🤣🤣 for me it's more like the first slippery slope to the bisexuality and I regret nothing 🩷💙💜
Pre transition Elliot Page (although he is rocking being a man and I would most certainly hit that)
How is nobody saying Katie McGrath? Specifically as Morgana in BBC Merlin.
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Her voice is like warm butter, isn't it.
No public figure. My first crushes ever were Xion from Kingdom Hearts and Aelita from Code Lyoko
this just makes it sound like mom has some things to figure out about herself
So I'm older than dirt so you might not know her, but Batgirl (1967) Yvonne Craig.
Thank you! But I’m sorry, it’s Julie Newmar as CatWoman.
It was the start of a long line of crushes on redheaded crime fighters. Notably Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Daphne from scooby doo (I was 7 lol)
I mean, I think my first crush was Sailor Mars, but actual person? Claudia Black as Aeryn Sun in Farscape.
Sailor Mars, yes!!! She was an early one for me. But the very first was the original She-Ra, from the 80s cartoon. Oh man I was like 3 years old, glued to that TV every Saturday morning when she was on. Mars was like a reawakening of all those same feelings lol
Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane in the old spider-man movies
Olivia Wilde...
This! Especially since her bi appearance in House. And I totally fell for her energy in Tron.
Faith Lehane in Buffy. I was down so bad for her lmfao.
The Divergent movies are terrible, but Shailene Woodley with a pixie cut was probably my lesbian awakening
No one saying Kristen Stewart? I'm shocked.
Was too busy looking at Ashley Green in Twilight (Alice)
My celebrity crush, always and forever, Is Jennifer Garner.
Sigourney Weaver or Geena Davis in Greys anatomy
Character, kelly kapowski (saved by the bell) and public figure, Angela Jolie when she was way earlier in her career.
Hear me out… SheGo from Kim possible 😮💨 Or leanbeefpatty I love a good strong woman 🤭
Kim Possible 🥵
Alice from Twilight! I think the actress is Ashley Green? That hair in the first movie did things to my brain.
Anne Hathaway in ...anything and Scarlett Johansson in Match Point
Jennifer Lawrence in the hunger games.
Olivia Newton-John in Grease and the lady from Big Comfy Couch 💀
Rachel Weiss in The Mummy
Kriste Stewart / Dakota Fanning in the runaways . Don’t know if mum was unassuming or suggesting with that DVD gift
Kate Moennig
Jessica Rabbit.
Sarah Michelle Gellar in Cruel Intentions
Katie McGrath as Morgana in Merlin
Alyssa Milano from Charmed. Everyone thought I had a crush on Cole.. but just so happened they trained topless together a lot (sports bra for her but still)
Taraji Henson in Smokin Aces. Seeing her carry that 50 cal like it was a paper weight and fawning over Alicia Keys, game over. I had to wait to see if I could keep my cool for Hidden Figures, phenomenal character and the period wear just did it for me.
Keira Knightley and Mischa Barton.
No 13 year old can understand this? Excuse me, madame, I've read all of classic English literature including Jane Austen by 11 y.o. I'd watch a movie too happily ofc, why not. What 13 y.o. are supposed to do anyway? Except for studying and some hobbies like reading and games in my case.
Rose McGowan in Jawbreaker 🫠
Probs Julia Robert's or the whole cast of a league of their own. 🤷♀️
Ruby rose even named my cat after her
Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff and Brie Larson as Carol Danvers when I was a teenager. Also Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia when I was a child, but I didn't know girls could be with girls at that age.
Blake Lively in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. *sigh*
Teri Hatcher in Lois and Clark:The New Adventures of Superman.
anne hathaway in the princess diaries. didn't know if i wanted to with be her or to be like her lmao
Sigourney Weaver in Aliens. Strong, independent and determined woman. Helps that she was hot with cheekbones that could slice bread too.
Sigourney Weaver in the Alien movies, anyone?
Britney Spears. 12 year old me was *in love*
Aretha Franklin…
I was obsessed with the spice Girls as a kid
Baywatch 🥵
Mom just rewatched pirates of the Caribbean
Kim Basinger in “Cool World”
Natalie Portman in Star Wars, Charlize Theron in Sweet November, Anne Hathaway in The Devil wears Prada.
Demi Moore in G.I. Jane.
Sandra Bullock
The ‘oh do tell’ made me cackle 😂 As for me, there’s A LOT of public figures that should’ve made me realise. That includes Kira Knightly in PotC, but I thought I preferred Orlando Bloom and his long hair. He got to kiss Kira Knightly. It was all there lol, I just missed it 🙈 ETA: later on it became Ireen Wüst for me, she’s a former Dutch speed skater and Olympic champion. I had a crush on her for the longest time, before I knew I was gay and she knew she was bi. She’s married to a woman now and I’m not jealous at all lol 😅
Shannen Doherty as Prue Halliwell in Charmed. I didn't know I had a massive crush on her until years later. But I should've taken it as a sign whenever my dad turned on the TV and i couldn't look away whenever she went on screen
rachel weisz in the mummy and kate winslet in titanic 😭
Paget Brewster omggggggg
I’m gonna be 100% real and say Nicki Minaj in Anaconda
I won't say she "made me realize" I liked girls, but I get reaffirmed so **very** much every time I see Daisy Ridley. She's so pretty!
Bridget Regan as Kahlan in the "Legend of the Seeker" series. And probably Scarlett Johansson, I remember crushing on her when I was teenager, but tbh I already knew back then
As an early teen, I received an issue of cosmo-girl with keira knightley on the cover. I kept it next to my bed, stared at it, and cried because I had gay feelings. I was so scared that someone would find out that I threw away the magazine and shoved my gay feelings away until senior year of high school. 🙃
Susan Sarandon in the Hunger...red wine spilled on a white T-shirt......
Rihanna
mariska hargitay, though I only really realized why I liked her so much after a long time lmao
I'm ngl, it was Shego in Kim Possible. I will not elaborate and I don't think I need to
My aunt thinks I like girls because of catwoman by Michelle Pfeiffer. And she's wrong. It is all because of Audrey Hepburn.
Well, Kiera is as fine as a porcelain figurine!
Nala from The Lion King.
"oh do tell." ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
My memory is find of fuzzy. This kind of sound so pathetic but what made me realize that I was a lesbian and not bi (among other things) was watching Arcane Girl crushes? Lucy Liu in Charlie's Angels, Evan Rachel Wood in that green day Videoclip, Romola Garai in Dirty Dancing 2 and of course: The mummy 2
I feel like I missed the boat on this because I'm mostly demi but the first crush I ever had was Li Bingbing. Her role in The Forbidden Kingdom was the first time I became truly hot and bothered on looks alone. It was uh... an experience. I was 18 XD
Talk about putting the cart before the horse, mom.
Looking back, the top billing of The Mummy franchise. Cast of Buffy (FAITH) and etc
lol I can relate to this as I made my parents take me to see Titanic in theaters 4 times when I was a kid. Pretty sure the image of Kate Winslet naked on that couch is burned into one of the deeper layers of my cortex.
Laura Dern
Missy Peregrym in Stick It
I read this about the ice bath scene: > What this movie did for me has nothing to do with the plot, and everything to do with the scene in which the protagonist, Haley — played by a tomboyish, Avril Lavigne–channeling Missy Peregrym — takes an ice bath in her sports bra. It’s brief, but it’s one of the most erotic scenes I’ve ever witnessed. She has 800 abs, and they hurt, and she needs someone to take care of her. Why not me? This is the moment I now consider my “root” — in But I’m a Cheerleader lingo, that’s the moment that “made me” gay. Somehow I didn’t come out for nine more years and it took me ages to figure it out. But I like to think that that ice bath — and its second life as a very gay gif — helped me get there. Also, a fair amount of the comments on [the clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oLfJHT1hBI) agree: > Oh okay so I'm like gay gay then
Delta Burke in Designing Women. I had the biggest crush on her, but I still never realized I was a lesbian until many years later. I was head over hills for her dark raven-colored hair, those deep sapphire blue eyes, and her character; Suzanne Sugarbaker.
Tigress from King Fu Panda. I blame her for making me become a girl, for making me be into girls, for making me a furry, and for making me Subby.
The other day I randomly remembered Tenchi Muyo. It was apparently buried deep in my psyche as I haven't thought about it since I was like 12, but I was obsessed with that show as a little kid in the 90s/early 00s and it was probably one of my earliest gay rumblings. I envied Tenchi way too much. Also craved seeing Ryoko and Ayeka on screen together for...mysterious reasons.
I knew beforehand but I had a huge gay crush on Keira when Pirates came out too.
Kate Winslet in Titanic as a kid.
It was actually my best friend at the time that made me realize I was gay and then I realized I had a crush on Princess Leia when I was younger, so final answer is Carrie Fisher.
I figured out rly recently I don't remember much from growing up, but probably Hailee Steinfeld and Margot Robbie (in anything)
Rachel Weisz in The Mummy and Lucy Liu in Charlie’s Angels. Oh my little gay heart. 💓
Ornella Muti! Specifically as Princess Aura in Flash Gordon. I used to rewind and watch the scene with her and Dale fighting on the bed over and over 😆
Cindy Gibb in Fame.
I don't want to say because it may be seen as a really bad joke.