Pre-Teenage years: Several actors from syndicated shows that were on in the afternoon after school: Mark Goddard as Major Don West on "Lost in Space."
Gary Conway (Captain Steve Burton) and Don Matheson (Mark Wilson) in "Land of the Giants"
Ken Berry (Captain Parmenter) on "F Troop"
Saturday morning television: Wesley Eure (Will Marshall) on "Land of the Lost" and Jackson Bostwick (Captain Marvel) on Shazam!
Teenage Years: Gil Gerard as Buck Rogers
Marc Singer in "The Taming of the Shrew" and later on "V"
Lee Horsley as "Matt Houston"
Robert Ulrich from "S.W.A.T." to "Vega$"
Richard Jordan in "Captains and the Kings."
Robert Conrad in "Battle of the Network Stars."
Lyle Waggoner on "The Carol Burnett Show" and "Wonder Woman."
James Read from "North and South."
Nicholas Clay in "The Last Days of Pompeii"
What confirmed I was gay? By the time I was a teenager, all the football and baseball players I watched:
Scott Brunner, Phil Simms, and Tom Mullady of the NY Giants.
Lee Mazzilli, Joel Youngblood, and Gary Carter (oh! What a beautiful butt!) of the NY Mets
John Nabor and Jim Montgomery in the 1976 Summer Olympics, and Eric Heiden and Jim Craig in the 1980 Winter Olympics
Here's Marc Singer in "The Taming of the Shrew:"