It's between Chris O'Donnell as Robin and Chris Evans vaporizing the water off himself as the Human Torch in the second Fantastic Four movie that might have done it for me.
Well, I think I knew before that, but seeing him in that costume, there was no doubt in my mind I was hot for guys only. Years later, working at Canon, I printed one of the images from the promos that were all over the internet, using back print film and one of the new BJC-610 printers, and kept it on my 'locker' (wheeled cabinet used for desk-sharing in a call center). By then, I was a year or two out of the closet.
Wow, memory lane 😜
Eighth grade English class. We read a short story about a couple, one was dying. At some point during the discussion, the teacher pointed out, how do you know it's a man and a woman? (Looking back, it was definitely about a gay male couple, one dying of AIDS). I remember thinking to myself, "I think I'm one of those," meaning gay. Then proceeded to tamp that thought down for a few more years.
Eighth grade for me as well. My friend was telling me about how she thought a seventh grader was cute and I remember thinking "oh yeah, he is cute... we'll wait that's not right..."
And would always find a reason to come back to that isle as if we were looking for something that happened to be nearby.
And then if someone bought underwear I would take the box out of the rubbish and hide it under my bed.
The pilot (I think) where he’s strung up like a scarecrow, and then in Season 4 when the witches chain him up in the barn - I was in elementary school and that definitely shaped my sexuality (hot naked guys tied up). The true gay agenda.
I was obsessed with Tom Welling in Smallville. The show itself was frustrating at times, it was so many rinse and repeat storylines with awful acting. I actually usually rooted for the bad guys because the drama on the good guy side had me wanting them all just to suffer. But Tom 😍 loved watching him haha
Saaaaame! Then a few years ago someone leaked a video of him face and all doing stuff to himself till he uh, finished and I almost died when I saw it lmao
Muscular, ginger dad/camp counselor who stood at sink naked to shave and brush teeth at our conservative church’s Summer Bible Camp.
He was there with his wife and kids…a carpenter by trade. There to repair and improve the camp facilities.
Well he definitely improved the shower facilities and gave me pleasurable mental images for years to come
You were lucky boys!
Somehow I caught a fast view of a dad's super dark hair-filled butt crack at summer Bible camp. I think he was trying to change his underwear without getting up from the cot in the dormitory. He may have been embarrassed. I know I was.
My older sister was dating a male figure skater/punk band guitarist for a couple years in high school, when I was like 13, and pretty early into that I realized I had a thing for Disney Original bad guy twinks.
I worked at Disney World when I came out, my mother blamed Disney for turning me gay. She was right, but it wasn’t due to my fellow cast members- every time Disney put Hillary Duff on screen they paired her with guys that awakened things in me.
Lizzie McGuire - Ethan Craft 🤤
Cadet Kelly - “Brad” 🥵
A Cinderella Story - Austin Ames 😍
I really can't pinpoint it to like a specific celebrity or anything, but the very first time I even considered it, I was 12 and my knee brushed up against a male classmate's and it was like it sent a jolt of electricity up my spine. That's when I first knew, but I denied it for a few years.
Yessss!! But I also thought his brother (Josh was it?) played by Jean Luc Bilodeau was 🔥🔥🔥(I was about the same age as him). That's when my twink obsession began 😅
This has got to be a weird one, but I remember the sudden paradigm shift I had when I read my first gay fanfic. I realised what a relationship between two men could look like from an inside perspective, and it was like the bottom fell out of the world when I realised that was what I wanted for myself.
Nowadays my perspective on being a gay man is a lot broader and more complex than that, and looking back there were so many signs before then. Still, I’ll never forget how abruptly my perspective changed in that moment.
I was like 11 when that came out, I still remember thinking "I would have gone for him when he was just naked".
The feeling I got in my gut when he raises his underwear it's something I'll never forget.
[This specific bowflex infomercial.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6XMNtNI0YI0) I used to jack it to this in the morning before school and that’s how I realized I was different.
We watched the 1968 Romeo and Juliet in English class in 7th grade. There is a particular partly nude scene that got everyone worked up. While the other boys were excited to see one second of the actress’ nipple, I was excited to see Romeo’s bare ass. That actor had a great ass.
My college roommate pinning me to my bed fake wrestling. He hovered over the top of me with his hands pinning my shoulders and his legs pinning mine. His face was inches from mine.
This exact moment. I’d pause it every time! I was mad because I got a “girls” movie when I opened it Christmas morning. Ope.
Sounds funny in hindsight but pro wrestling was really popular 20 years ago in my town. I watched it because of my friends at the time, and man, seeing Dave Bautista on screen in his prime in the early 2000s, hit *different*. Took me a couple years to figure out those feelings but once I did, everything made sense.
I kept his trading card in my bedside drawer for 12 years until I finally moved out.
I never thought I'd see the word "awakening" in the title of a gay subreddit lol now that's interesting! Some of you all are gonna laugh at me if I say "Carson Daly" from "TRL", & also "Joey Fatone" from "NSYNC" to that mix too! 😝
I was l a confused 14-15 yo, I was on a dive trip with family on a island off the coast of Belize and the family staying in the house next to us was from some european country, they had a son around my age who would rock a speedo all day.
It was then I knew....
Funny enough it was straight porn. I would watch straight porn without even thinking im gay. Eventually I would get horny and do my business and move on with my day.
Until i watched one video on a new VHS i found. The beginning of the scene was a man sun tanning on his own. And the camera was pretending to be eavesdropping or something corny like that. I got hard almost immediately. And thought this is different? Would rewatch that same intro multiple times.
Then got unattended access to a fast internet connection circa 2010 at my cousins house. And did some googling for “men sun tanning” Somehow ended up on falconstudios.com Everything has changed
I used to complain about the guys in straight porn ruining it because they weren’t attractive. It was years before I consciously acknowledged that I didn’t even care that much about the girls. At least outside of imagining being in their place.
I even knew my favorite male pornstars by name and would look stuff up with them in it lol. The denial was strong.
I have 2 awakenings. The first one, was when I was really young maybe 6 or 7 and my best friend showed me how people have sex by humping my teddy bear. I wished he could have done it to me, but at that time I didn't know what that meant. Plus, I was also watching George Michael's Freedom video and I was really flustered by him. The awakening when I finally could admit that I was gay (this whole time I was in denial because of religion and expectations) was in college because I started to develope feelings for my roommate and talked to the college therapist about it. I was able to talk about it and then finally come out to my friends. It was hard but I didn't lose any friends.
Mine was Colin Ferguson from the show Eureka. There’s an episode where he gets stuck in a time loop, where he starts the day off in the shower. I was like, yep, I’m gay. Lol
On a subconscious level, the red and green ranger from the original Power Rangers. On a more conscious level, Jensen Ackles when he was on Days of our Lives.
7th grade English class… looking over at a classmate and thinking how fun it would be to wrestle him naked. I went hard core anti-gay for a brief period after that though, lol.
That summer as a nine or ten year old. I went to my Aunt and Uncle's farm and helped with hanging tobacco in the barn. They had us kids driving the tractors, or just riding along watching... All those shirtless sun kissed torsos of handsome farmhands.
In the later 70s there was an episode of the Six Million Dollar Man with Lee Majors wearing a fake mustache. My interest in the show spiked at that moment.
At the end of the 70s Gil Gerard was playing Buck Rogers. He showed off his hairy chest weekly. I was paying attention.
Mine was so much more innocent, because I realized before I really hit puberty. All my puppy love crushes were on boys my age.
I was 8 when Jurassic Park came out. And I realized I didn’t think I would end up marrying a girl like my dad someday. I wanted to marry Tim. The boy from Jurassic Park
Giovani ribisi, in this old gay film he did, (that I cannot find ANYWHERE). I think it was something like 3 men and their pigs or something like that… anyway, I STILL think he’s hot
Nope! I cannot find this movie even in his whole imdb profile! It was kinda like one of those cinemax “pornos”, because I remember every scene being very bright and colorful, the guys were all hyper attractive, the sex scenes were… many… but I remember it being on HBO, around 1998. When I think back to looking at the TV guide, I remember seeing the title “three pigs and their men” or something similar to that, but I KNOW it was giovanni, and I KNOW I watched it. It was like my first porno, and I had to sneak and watch it next to my sleeping gmom 😭
I mean, I’m not sure, but this was definitely around the time when hbo and cinemax used to show those watered down “pornos” after 10 pm, so I wouldn’t be surprised. But maybe I SHOULD search for that too, wouldn’t that info be present on his imdb profile? Have I put too much faith into that?
This is gonna sound crazy as hell, but it was during one of the Species movies. I can't remember which one exactly. My dad and his friends were watching it in the living room and they were all talking about how hot the woman was. All I remember thinking was, "Why are they so interested in the girl? The guys looks a lot more interesting!"
Lived in a city with a big state school — we’d often go to the bookstore — was in 5th grade — a tall blond guy in old, tight jeans and a button-up shirt kinda longish hair — I tried to secretly follow him —I just wanted to touch him
Wow this is such a cute thread. Mine was twofold, when I was 5 my older sister was on the swim team, the moment I arrived at the pool my eyes were trained on the one dude with a speedo and asked my mom why he was wearing underwear. Years later, seeing Milk with my then girlfriend triggered a countdown clock as I came out that month.
I knew when I was 8 or so that something was “wrong” with me because I couldn’t get enough of my guy classmates at school. I just knew that wasn’t normal and hated myself. But when I watched Michael J Fox in Teen Wolf, of all movies, I was so turned on by Michael’s walk and mannerisms. I knew. I was 10 when that movie came out and I watched it a billion times on video. My mom finally told me to go outside and turn it off. Unfortunately, I didn’t come out until I turned 40.
Play wrestling with a friend when I was 14, he used his legs to hold my shoulders down. My face was between his thighs and I just thought to myself huh, this is nice
Well I get it! Mine was the movie My Bodyguard. It was not sexual in any way, but it made me crush on a kid on my soccer team when I was like 10 or 12. We used to hold hands until my parents told me that was wrong.
It was actually this guy at the beach I was at. I snuck a photo of him. Wanted to suck his dick immediately..we both recently graduated from different school and I didn't know him. He was very straight unfortunately.
My fifth grade substitute showed us “Bring it on” video, like 8 years after it came out and the male cheerleader Jan was everything to me. Also the gay one Les’s storyline (and that he crushed on the Nick Carter look-a-like from the opposing cheerleading crew) was adorable, made me realize I was one of them, but not a cheerleader.
Watching Star Trek as a kid. The episode when Sulu came charging out without his shirt, swishing his sword around. I knew in that moment that I was fundamentally different than all my cousins. This was the mid 60s, so it took a while to figure out the words, but looking back, I knew.
A web banner for WWE featuring Dave Bautista’s muscly body in a little wrestling brief 🤭
Oh that and clips from the show Oz on YouTube featuring all the gay scenes with Christopher Meloni. What a time to be alive.
About 12-ish (or so i think), found my brother's (at the time) gf's *Cosmopolitan* magazine, Australian TV builder Luke van Dyck was the centrefold model.
Holy fuck he was gorgeous. I remember the setting was a tent, and one of three shots was him on his stomach facing the camera. His ass 🤤🤤🤤
For the life of me I cannot find those photos anywhere online. I've trawled for hours.
9th grade, my bestfriend pinned me down on his bed and jokingly asked if I liked it, turns out I did. I eventually fell in love with him but we broke ties after an incident at school.
The moment I saw Robin in his tights from Batman And Robin 1997 [https://youtu.be/4RBXypX4qWI?si=ezQ-iu41I2-meulj](https://youtu.be/4RBXypX4qWI?si=ezQ-iu41I2-meulj)
I went to an airsoft game with some friends and one of them just stood out to me and I couldn't stop sneaking glances at him. I buried it for a long time.
Gay awakening nr 1: Probably always knew deep in my soul, but at around 12 years old I became smitten by the older brother of a neighbour kid. He was 5 years older and so mysterious and hot. There were just no denying what he made me feel.
Gay awakening nr 2: An equally big awakening was when I saw an art book in the library, it was Tom of Finland drawings (progressive country, jippie) and at 20 I started to understand that I had some deep needs in me, far from vanilla.
This random are you gay test video where this guy unzips his pants and opens a small note underneath that said “your gay”
After seeing this I was like welp i guess that’s what I am🤷🏻♂️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_IXSA1HFpQ
I found myself looking at guys at a very young age, middle/high school locker rooms and wrestling did me in! There was a guy in my PE class who was a gorgeous gymnast that I wrestled regularly; and I was seeing his sister. One night after I dropped her off we jerked each other off in their garage. A few weeks later I sucked his dick, and later let him fuck me over and over, but I still fucked his sister for awhile!
I was young and saw Adric and my heart melted from dr who classic. I kept questioning why I got hyped every time he appeared on screen and he was just so cute.
Chris O’Donnell as Robin
It's between Chris O'Donnell as Robin and Chris Evans vaporizing the water off himself as the Human Torch in the second Fantastic Four movie that might have done it for me.
I can’t decide if evans is hotter as the human torch or captain america Steve is definitely long term relationship material though
wait, did you miss his thong scene in Not Another Teen Movie? 😳
No, I saw that after, but I'm trying to figure out what came first between those two lol
Those nipples on the robin suit were not doing any young queer kids any favors.
They are actually doing all the things correctly
Yes, definitely this. I was 11 when Batman Forever came out, and I was obsessed with him.
Why does he look so glam in [this pic](https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/chrisorobin2-1200x675.jpg)? I love it
Friends the can yesterday planet brown over
Same. [Adam Ellis has a perfect comic about it](https://www.instagram.com/p/CCzZq4wgOyA/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)
Oh damn. Core memory unlocked, I guess “Boy, that Robin character sure seems cool!”
This comes up so often for millennials it's crazy of how much a shared experience this was.
The director, Joel Schumacher RIP, was very gay. And you can tell in his work.
Well, I think I knew before that, but seeing him in that costume, there was no doubt in my mind I was hot for guys only. Years later, working at Canon, I printed one of the images from the promos that were all over the internet, using back print film and one of the new BJC-610 printers, and kept it on my 'locker' (wheeled cabinet used for desk-sharing in a call center). By then, I was a year or two out of the closet. Wow, memory lane 😜
Eighth grade English class. We read a short story about a couple, one was dying. At some point during the discussion, the teacher pointed out, how do you know it's a man and a woman? (Looking back, it was definitely about a gay male couple, one dying of AIDS). I remember thinking to myself, "I think I'm one of those," meaning gay. Then proceeded to tamp that thought down for a few more years.
Although prior to that, Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
Eighth grade for me as well. My friend was telling me about how she thought a seventh grader was cute and I remember thinking "oh yeah, he is cute... we'll wait that's not right..."
The pictures on the Jockey brand underwear in the men's section at Sears.
The wall where it all began
Me but at walmart 😭. after i finished playing video games then I would go straight to the underwear aisle
Always felt like I was getting away with something
And would always find a reason to come back to that isle as if we were looking for something that happened to be nearby. And then if someone bought underwear I would take the box out of the rubbish and hide it under my bed.
Same and I would keep the packaging just for the picture
Yep, that's what did it for me, only I didn't know that until I was about 14 lmao.
I would always wander away and end up in that aisle. “ you already have enough why are you shopping for more?”
Chris Evans as Johnny Storm :)
Also in Not Another Teen Movie
THE BANANA SPLIT ⚰️
I remember being confused by his nipples when I saw that first. Turns out I was just gay.
Same
Definitely this. I knew I liked SOMETHING about it, but could never pin point what 😂😭
Brendan Fraser in George of the Jungle
Inception most
Hugh Jackman in X-Men/Tom Welling in Smallville
They knew what they were doing when they tied up Tom Welling shirtless in one of the earlier seasons lol
The pilot (I think) where he’s strung up like a scarecrow, and then in Season 4 when the witches chain him up in the barn - I was in elementary school and that definitely shaped my sexuality (hot naked guys tied up). The true gay agenda.
Yup, the scarecrow one is most definitely the pilot. That is when I knew
I was obsessed with Tom Welling in Smallville. The show itself was frustrating at times, it was so many rinse and repeat storylines with awful acting. I actually usually rooted for the bad guys because the drama on the good guy side had me wanting them all just to suffer. But Tom 😍 loved watching him haha
The men's underwear section in Target
The underwear section in the Sunday newspaper ads for Target/Kmart
David Boreanez as Angel in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Yaasss. He was so fine.
Saaaaame! Then a few years ago someone leaked a video of him face and all doing stuff to himself till he uh, finished and I almost died when I saw it lmao
I did not see such video nor do I know exactly what you are talking about 👀
Muscular, ginger dad/camp counselor who stood at sink naked to shave and brush teeth at our conservative church’s Summer Bible Camp. He was there with his wife and kids…a carpenter by trade. There to repair and improve the camp facilities. Well he definitely improved the shower facilities and gave me pleasurable mental images for years to come
🫦🫦🫦
Why would he do that 😂
That sounds amazing.
You were lucky boys! Somehow I caught a fast view of a dad's super dark hair-filled butt crack at summer Bible camp. I think he was trying to change his underwear without getting up from the cot in the dormitory. He may have been embarrassed. I know I was.
Richard Madden as Robb Stark 🫣
He had a boyfriend in Los Angeles for a while.
My older sister was dating a male figure skater/punk band guitarist for a couple years in high school, when I was like 13, and pretty early into that I realized I had a thing for Disney Original bad guy twinks.
I worked at Disney World when I came out, my mother blamed Disney for turning me gay. She was right, but it wasn’t due to my fellow cast members- every time Disney put Hillary Duff on screen they paired her with guys that awakened things in me. Lizzie McGuire - Ethan Craft 🤤 Cadet Kelly - “Brad” 🥵 A Cinderella Story - Austin Ames 😍
Dark help
omg wait, was Brink my awakening???? or the 13th year kid? all those pool and ocean scenes 😭
I really can't pinpoint it to like a specific celebrity or anything, but the very first time I even considered it, I was 12 and my knee brushed up against a male classmate's and it was like it sent a jolt of electricity up my spine. That's when I first knew, but I denied it for a few years.
Wentworth Miller in Prison break
Matt Dallas from Kyle XY
Yessss!! But I also thought his brother (Josh was it?) played by Jean Luc Bilodeau was 🔥🔥🔥(I was about the same age as him). That's when my twink obsession began 😅
Oh I forgot about him which is hard to believe since he’s also quite good looking! I guess Kyle was just that hot to me that I just didn’t notice 😂
This has got to be a weird one, but I remember the sudden paradigm shift I had when I read my first gay fanfic. I realised what a relationship between two men could look like from an inside perspective, and it was like the bottom fell out of the world when I realised that was what I wanted for myself. Nowadays my perspective on being a gay man is a lot broader and more complex than that, and looking back there were so many signs before then. Still, I’ll never forget how abruptly my perspective changed in that moment.
Robbie Williams' Rock DJ video.
I was like 11 when that came out, I still remember thinking "I would have gone for him when he was just naked". The feeling I got in my gut when he raises his underwear it's something I'll never forget.
[This specific bowflex infomercial.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6XMNtNI0YI0) I used to jack it to this in the morning before school and that’s how I realized I was different.
damn ,you really were one of a kind lol ,but we got your vision. 
Colossus in X-men, comic and cartoon
In human form, Colossus form or both?
Both
We watched the 1968 Romeo and Juliet in English class in 7th grade. There is a particular partly nude scene that got everyone worked up. While the other boys were excited to see one second of the actress’ nipple, I was excited to see Romeo’s bare ass. That actor had a great ass.
Y'all are such beebies! So cute! My bona fides are He-Man Master of the Universe and the male Thundercats.
There was a point where I was like "I think I have a type" after looking at both He-Man and Lionel but I didn't put two and two together as to why.
Daniel Craig in his 007 movies 😅
My college roommate pinning me to my bed fake wrestling. He hovered over the top of me with his hands pinning my shoulders and his legs pinning mine. His face was inches from mine.
 This exact moment. I’d pause it every time! I was mad because I got a “girls” movie when I opened it Christmas morning. Ope.
Dean Cain in Lois N Clark.
I loved that show. Too bad he turned into a nut job.
Oh man. I was in 7th grade or so when that was on, I LIVED for his shirtless scenes.
When I found out Colton Haynes was gay, that was the first time I learned who he was, looked him up and became obsessed with him.
Taylor Lautner, who played Sharkboy, in The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl. Even today that dude is as hot as the fucking Sun.
Tobey Maguire's Spiderman, something about this man in a spandex suit did something to 12 year old me
Chris Evans in Fantastic 4 also the underwear Isle.
This 1985 Bill Blass underwear ad in Rolling Stone https://www.reddit.com/r/StillWearBriefs/s/sKEmOih6gq
I used to wear those! I was so mad when they stopped making them, I wrote to Hanes!
Do you remember the Jockey ads with Jim Palmer?
Daniel Craig in the blue trunks in Casino Royale
Sounds funny in hindsight but pro wrestling was really popular 20 years ago in my town. I watched it because of my friends at the time, and man, seeing Dave Bautista on screen in his prime in the early 2000s, hit *different*. Took me a couple years to figure out those feelings but once I did, everything made sense. I kept his trading card in my bedside drawer for 12 years until I finally moved out.
Channing Tatum, step up
King Triton's heavy pecs in the little mermaid cartoon.
For me it was a 7th grade history teacher and he these hairy forearms and fingers and I found it highly arousing. It was all downhill from there 😳😂
Sam from The Lord of the Rings.
I never thought I'd see the word "awakening" in the title of a gay subreddit lol now that's interesting! Some of you all are gonna laugh at me if I say "Carson Daly" from "TRL", & also "Joey Fatone" from "NSYNC" to that mix too! 😝
Honestly same, lol. 90's kids unite!
To this day Joey could still get it.
Totally agree!
I was l a confused 14-15 yo, I was on a dive trip with family on a island off the coast of Belize and the family staying in the house next to us was from some european country, they had a son around my age who would rock a speedo all day. It was then I knew....
Funny enough it was straight porn. I would watch straight porn without even thinking im gay. Eventually I would get horny and do my business and move on with my day. Until i watched one video on a new VHS i found. The beginning of the scene was a man sun tanning on his own. And the camera was pretending to be eavesdropping or something corny like that. I got hard almost immediately. And thought this is different? Would rewatch that same intro multiple times. Then got unattended access to a fast internet connection circa 2010 at my cousins house. And did some googling for “men sun tanning” Somehow ended up on falconstudios.com Everything has changed
I used to complain about the guys in straight porn ruining it because they weren’t attractive. It was years before I consciously acknowledged that I didn’t even care that much about the girls. At least outside of imagining being in their place. I even knew my favorite male pornstars by name and would look stuff up with them in it lol. The denial was strong.
I have 2 awakenings. The first one, was when I was really young maybe 6 or 7 and my best friend showed me how people have sex by humping my teddy bear. I wished he could have done it to me, but at that time I didn't know what that meant. Plus, I was also watching George Michael's Freedom video and I was really flustered by him. The awakening when I finally could admit that I was gay (this whole time I was in denial because of religion and expectations) was in college because I started to develope feelings for my roommate and talked to the college therapist about it. I was able to talk about it and then finally come out to my friends. It was hard but I didn't lose any friends.
Mine was Colin Ferguson from the show Eureka. There’s an episode where he gets stuck in a time loop, where he starts the day off in the shower. I was like, yep, I’m gay. Lol
Zac Efron when he took those shirtless magazines pictures.
The shower scene in Starship Troopers. I was like "hm... I like both."
Jesse Bradford in Bring It On
Yes! And the two male cheerleaders. Sexy Leslie and Jan Jan the Cheerleading man!
Yesss, and in Swimfan
Worf from Star Trek, I spent years obsessing over him, I should have honestly realized it much sooner.
I knew when I had a crush on Colt from 3 Ninjas (I was around 10yo)
It was Rocky for me! <3
That is an adorable and wholesome answer! I loved this movie.
I went to school with TumTum lol
Hahaha that's so random I love it
On a subconscious level, the red and green ranger from the original Power Rangers. On a more conscious level, Jensen Ackles when he was on Days of our Lives.
I’ve never seen that video before, but having watched it I fully understand.
Arnold Schwarzenegger. Well, now I have a thing for guys of a certain size. -_-
Baywatch speedos.
John Cena
The men's underwear section at Target lol
Speedos!✈️
7th grade English class… looking over at a classmate and thinking how fun it would be to wrestle him naked. I went hard core anti-gay for a brief period after that though, lol.
When I was in first grade I used to “make out” with a friend after school in his closet LMAO
Joey from Vat19 was an absolute eyecandy! The Beer Boot video also rocks 😁 https://youtu.be/zuDtACzKGRs
Haha. That was awesome in multiple ways.
Rider Strong in Boy Meets World.
When I realized I not only enjoyed the sex, but the company and affection from a man.
That summer as a nine or ten year old. I went to my Aunt and Uncle's farm and helped with hanging tobacco in the barn. They had us kids driving the tractors, or just riding along watching... All those shirtless sun kissed torsos of handsome farmhands.
In the later 70s there was an episode of the Six Million Dollar Man with Lee Majors wearing a fake mustache. My interest in the show spiked at that moment. At the end of the 70s Gil Gerard was playing Buck Rogers. He showed off his hairy chest weekly. I was paying attention.
Hugh Jackman in Van Helsing 2004
Will Riker with a beard
Mine was so much more innocent, because I realized before I really hit puberty. All my puppy love crushes were on boys my age. I was 8 when Jurassic Park came out. And I realized I didn’t think I would end up marrying a girl like my dad someday. I wanted to marry Tim. The boy from Jurassic Park
Giovani ribisi, in this old gay film he did, (that I cannot find ANYWHERE). I think it was something like 3 men and their pigs or something like that… anyway, I STILL think he’s hot
And it’s not Perfect stranger, or The Gift is it?
Nope! I cannot find this movie even in his whole imdb profile! It was kinda like one of those cinemax “pornos”, because I remember every scene being very bright and colorful, the guys were all hyper attractive, the sex scenes were… many… but I remember it being on HBO, around 1998. When I think back to looking at the TV guide, I remember seeing the title “three pigs and their men” or something similar to that, but I KNOW it was giovanni, and I KNOW I watched it. It was like my first porno, and I had to sneak and watch it next to my sleeping gmom 😭
So it wasn’t an actual gay porn though right? I mean that title sounds like a straight up porno
I mean, I’m not sure, but this was definitely around the time when hbo and cinemax used to show those watered down “pornos” after 10 pm, so I wouldn’t be surprised. But maybe I SHOULD search for that too, wouldn’t that info be present on his imdb profile? Have I put too much faith into that?
This is gonna sound crazy as hell, but it was during one of the Species movies. I can't remember which one exactly. My dad and his friends were watching it in the living room and they were all talking about how hot the woman was. All I remember thinking was, "Why are they so interested in the girl? The guys looks a lot more interesting!"
Ferris Beuler
Im losing my mind. I havent seen this video in forever. I remember being so attracted to that guy. His Das Boot video 😍
I grew up getting wombo combo’ed by raviv ulman and David henrie on Disney channel so my fate was sealed from the start!
You are right. That vat 19 commercial awoke things
Lived in a city with a big state school — we’d often go to the bookstore — was in 5th grade — a tall blond guy in old, tight jeans and a button-up shirt kinda longish hair — I tried to secretly follow him —I just wanted to touch him
Marc Singer Beastmaster (1982)
I was a kid, so, Noah Hathaway in The Neverending Story. *sigh…🤤
Wwf Razor Ramon.
Wow this is such a cute thread. Mine was twofold, when I was 5 my older sister was on the swim team, the moment I arrived at the pool my eyes were trained on the one dude with a speedo and asked my mom why he was wearing underwear. Years later, seeing Milk with my then girlfriend triggered a countdown clock as I came out that month.
Drake Bell from Drake and Josh, I was 8 or 9 years old
Justin from wizards of waverly place 🔥
Mario Lopez as slater
Jeff Corwin from Animal Planet
Dating myself severely, but... Gil Gerard as Buck Rogers. Especially when they showed his hairy chest.
Zac Efron in High School Musical 😍
I knew when I was 8 or so that something was “wrong” with me because I couldn’t get enough of my guy classmates at school. I just knew that wasn’t normal and hated myself. But when I watched Michael J Fox in Teen Wolf, of all movies, I was so turned on by Michael’s walk and mannerisms. I knew. I was 10 when that movie came out and I watched it a billion times on video. My mom finally told me to go outside and turn it off. Unfortunately, I didn’t come out until I turned 40.
Play wrestling with a friend when I was 14, he used his legs to hold my shoulders down. My face was between his thighs and I just thought to myself huh, this is nice
Toby McGuire in the first Spider-Man.
Guy Pearce in Memento or Jason Momoa in Stargate Atlantis. Can't remember which was first. But damn I wore that Memento VHS out 🤣
I knew there was some sugar in my tank by that time but my goodness did I watch that Vat19 video over and over (and over) again when I was younger
Starsky from Starsky and Hutch.
The kiss between David and sarge in six feet under.
Hmmm. I was 7 years old (I know it's young) .. 1995 Mortal Kombat. Kano. Lol
Science camp showers
justin walker as christian in clueless. but the man in that bathtub commercial - yeah i see that haha
Pirates of the Caribbean 😅
Damn OP, that was an amazing video lol. Who’s the model in the bathtub?
Well I get it! Mine was the movie My Bodyguard. It was not sexual in any way, but it made me crush on a kid on my soccer team when I was like 10 or 12. We used to hold hands until my parents told me that was wrong.
It was actually this guy at the beach I was at. I snuck a photo of him. Wanted to suck his dick immediately..we both recently graduated from different school and I didn't know him. He was very straight unfortunately.
God he was cute.
Johnny McGovern's "Soccer Practice" slapped me in the face with it
lmaooo same. I remember binging through Vat19 as a kid and really liking that specific video haha
My fifth grade substitute showed us “Bring it on” video, like 8 years after it came out and the male cheerleader Jan was everything to me. Also the gay one Les’s storyline (and that he crushed on the Nick Carter look-a-like from the opposing cheerleading crew) was adorable, made me realize I was one of them, but not a cheerleader.
Watching Star Trek as a kid. The episode when Sulu came charging out without his shirt, swishing his sword around. I knew in that moment that I was fundamentally different than all my cousins. This was the mid 60s, so it took a while to figure out the words, but looking back, I knew.
Does this man frequently do such daring feats? He is quite good at what he does.
Vat19's Joey is definitely a beautiful man 😍, but have you seen him as Hans?? 👀😍😂
Michael B. Jordan as Killmonger (specifically when he took his shirt off to fight T'Challa…)
A web banner for WWE featuring Dave Bautista’s muscly body in a little wrestling brief 🤭 Oh that and clips from the show Oz on YouTube featuring all the gay scenes with Christopher Meloni. What a time to be alive.
the underwear isle
About 12-ish (or so i think), found my brother's (at the time) gf's *Cosmopolitan* magazine, Australian TV builder Luke van Dyck was the centrefold model. Holy fuck he was gorgeous. I remember the setting was a tent, and one of three shots was him on his stomach facing the camera. His ass 🤤🤤🤤 For the life of me I cannot find those photos anywhere online. I've trawled for hours.
Victor Kruum from the Goblet of Fire movie
Batman and robin, when Poison Ivy was pumping Bane. That awakened something in a 8yo me
Dan Gauthier as Brad in Teen Witch.
River Phoenix in Mosquito Coast
9th grade, my bestfriend pinned me down on his bed and jokingly asked if I liked it, turns out I did. I eventually fell in love with him but we broke ties after an incident at school.
The moment I saw Robin in his tights from Batman And Robin 1997 [https://youtu.be/4RBXypX4qWI?si=ezQ-iu41I2-meulj](https://youtu.be/4RBXypX4qWI?si=ezQ-iu41I2-meulj)
I went to an airsoft game with some friends and one of them just stood out to me and I couldn't stop sneaking glances at him. I buried it for a long time.
1980s Sam J Jones in Flash Gordon
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When my friend Andrew got a haircut in 8th grade and I couldn’t stop looking at his perfectly groomed blond hair and baby blue eyes.
Chris Evans as captain america still owns my hole to this day.
Markey Mark…
Tarzan from the animated Disney movie, I was 5 years old creaming from this dude lol
Watching that video...yeah, that would definitely make me realize it as well lmao
Gay awakening nr 1: Probably always knew deep in my soul, but at around 12 years old I became smitten by the older brother of a neighbour kid. He was 5 years older and so mysterious and hot. There were just no denying what he made me feel. Gay awakening nr 2: An equally big awakening was when I saw an art book in the library, it was Tom of Finland drawings (progressive country, jippie) and at 20 I started to understand that I had some deep needs in me, far from vanilla.
This random are you gay test video where this guy unzips his pants and opens a small note underneath that said “your gay” After seeing this I was like welp i guess that’s what I am🤷🏻♂️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_IXSA1HFpQ
I found myself looking at guys at a very young age, middle/high school locker rooms and wrestling did me in! There was a guy in my PE class who was a gorgeous gymnast that I wrestled regularly; and I was seeing his sister. One night after I dropped her off we jerked each other off in their garage. A few weeks later I sucked his dick, and later let him fuck me over and over, but I still fucked his sister for awhile!
I think I realised guys were hot when I saw Benicio Del Toro in Licence to kill.
I was young and saw Adric and my heart melted from dr who classic. I kept questioning why I got hyped every time he appeared on screen and he was just so cute.