In Your Youth, What Posters Were On Your Walls?

I would have f*cked a young George Michael silly. He was a dream in his early 20s but had become beastly by his 30s. What happened?

I loved Andy Gibb, too.

Young Prince and MJ were lovely too but they were both too effeminate for me.

R1 the ‘closet’

R3 I bet you loved movie posters.

I had some very 70s glow-in-the-dark black velvet ones (like a spooky castle on a hill), but my favorite was a huge 6-7 foot long one that was a montage of hundreds of black and white photos of classic Hollywood stars. Eventually it got ripped and I tossed it, but I still remember the photos of Katharine Hepburn and Valentino and others. It was amazing and I was starstruck.

Cheryl Ladd and Heather Thomas. I was a confused little gayling.

I had Billy Idol and Prince on my wall but only Billy was butch enough to shag. When I look at the lingerie and ridiculous frilly, pastel sh*t that Prince rocked in the 80s I am astounded he ever became a star. He is like one degree removed from RuPaul's Drag Race.

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Duran duran everywhere then later the Cure & the Sniths

The Faculty poster (never seen it to this day, but won it as an award for something), a cool Heroes of Might and Magic poster I found in a magazine, young lion cubs on a log stock poster, and a poster of [italic]Proteus anguinus[/italic] gifted to me by my geography teacher. Man, I was dirt poor. Still am. 😩

And no, I never once rubbed it out to Josh Hartnett. Or any other guy on that poster.

All of my room was black light posters. I wish I still had them because they were really beautiful with the black light on.

The only non-black light poster I had was the "Hang in there Baby" cat one:

The Velvet Underground poster with the banana, Tones on Tail, Joy Division, Bauhaus, and The Wolfgang Press.

And a door-size version of this in college.

Mick Jagger and Led Zeppelin posters were on my wall.

R16 lmao

'77 King Kong with the fake jet planes.

We always had the "I like you - you're different" poster and the "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle"" poster on the walls.

I really wanted my older sister's "The Devil Made Me Do It!" poster. I had a big color-it-yourself "Doodle Art" poster with animals, but I never finished it.

Sigh...

James Dean poster, looked a lot like this.

R22 me, too.

Like r6 and r13 , I had the velvet black light posters, M.C.Escher esque, a graphic pro tennis poster, a poster of Three Dog Night in military drag, in the midst of the grave markers at Arlington, along with stats, and a couple of local theater production posters --- my parents were in the creative arts, and as a young gayling, I designed my room - built in bed, cork ceiling, adhesive carpet squares (very new in 1971) orange walls, beaded curtain, funky hanging lamp... And an etc. like Rhoda.

About 15 years ago earlier in eBay, I re-collected vintage black light posters. Now it's rather impossible. But I unearthed some untouched old stock and I'm very happy with what I managed to get.

The Beatles from the white album.

Rush, bitches.

Guess I didn't get the memo. I had one painting of a landscape and a couple other framed pictures but I can't remember the subjects.

I had many posters of the 1980s' R&B singers on my walls, but Debarge was the group I wanted to get naked with (except for their sister, because, eew).

Junior High I had Prince, Madonna, later it was The Cure, The Smiths and Erasure

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I was not allowed to have posters on my walls in my youth. They would not have gone with the hideous brown / beige / olive wallpaper in my hideous, mostly brown and beige, Early American bedroom.

In college, I had some dayglow posters and a black light. I tired of those after a couple of bad LSD trips, and sold them to a kid down the hall in my dorm.

The next year, I had art posters. Mostly impressionists. Mostly things that took place on water. I don't think modern artists were that popular yet, and abstract expressionism is what it turned out I really like.

Duran Duran

Butterfly of Love

R36 nice but it was on my wall, as well. I’m the artist.

I believe it was over my bed: George Glass mentioned to me how much he liked the night he and I had a sleepover.

I shared a bedroom with my older brother, and he was infatuated with the Farrah Fawcett poster.

Australian actress and icon Abigail.

Nirvana, REM, Alice in Chains, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth and Radiohead posters. I also wrote shitty little poems on the walls.

I START DRIPPING

Thinking about all those Most Wanted Felons posters on my bedroom walls. All those images, you’d think you were inside the Post Office.

R38 sure Whatever! I slept with Jerry.

There I said it...

An enormous Peter Frampton (shirtless, dreamy) and various horse posters. So yeah I was a girl when I was a teenager.

Neneh Cherry, Kylie Minogue and Madonna

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R46 your Parent’s were actually ok with your poster choice. Lmao

Some movie posters (Rear Window, Some Like It Hot, Rebel Without a Cause). A few posters for alterna-ish bands like The Church. An older relative gave me a vintage Jefferson Airplane poster that I thought was really cool. Wonder if I still have it somewhere.

Movie posters were very popular, too.

Aw, most of you have such terrible taste! I only like the felons wall idea. The worst was the guy who hung a poster because he heard the film had won an award, LMAO!!

R50 Lmao

Duran Duran

And then a few years later The Smiths.

Olivia Newton-John

The poster version of this album cover.

Madonna, Michael Jackson and New Kids On The Block

This Cyndi Lauper poster was the only consistent image on my wall until the house got razed to rebuild

What about Farrah? Anyone?

I also taped lots of pictures from Aquarium Fish Magazine on my walls.

R58 = Troy McClure

Aunty Entity was the only female poster I had in the 80's.

I had the "Grease" poster on my wall.

This, YES, this and it was rolled so it was beautiful.

THIS I was 10 and it stayed throughout my high school years until the room was redone

when Mariah had her voice, natural hair color and pre-super fake boobs

my fwb had this poster during his middle and high school years

I had two Murillo portraits of dashing Franciscan saints, loaned to me by my grandfather's mistress, the Duchess of Alba. Unknown paintings, still, the duchess refused to allow their transport to Le Rosey. They now hang in a dark convent in the Sierra Nevada.

I purchased this poster at the mall and hid it in my room, taping it to the wall whenever I had alone time.

My dad got me this poster back in the day. I’m sure he kicked himself about it a few years later.

The Beatles’ White Album photos, Peter Frampton in his gorgeous, wavy-haired, shirtless beauty, shirtless Jim Morrison lounging in his leather pants, and this fabulous, dayglo, surfer-at-sunrise Endless Summer movie poster.

aww hell yeah

Marlon Brando...!

How my parents didn't know I way gay I'll never know, lol.

Cuz even straight guys thought Brando was cool.

R67 Lmao. We have all been there.

[quote]What about Farrah? Anyone?

I had both the famous swimsuit one and this one on my walls.

And this Lynda Carter one, too.

I had a framed Herb Ritts Fred with Tires poster, a framed Monet print and some rock stickers on my window, like KNAC 105.5 FM and KROQ "Roq of the 80s" 106.7 FM.

[quote]I had a framed Herb Ritts Fred with Tires poster

Did anyone else ever hear that Fred was gaybashed to death?

R75 & R76 interesting. I had never heard of him.

A friend worked in a record shop and when Reprise sent some promotional poster to the store he let me have two, which were printed on heavy card stock, and I still have them. One was Electric Warrior-era T-Rex, and the other was The Kinks.

An older cousin had this poster......

R76 - no sign of Fred Harding being gay bashed or dead.....

R80 I found nothing, either.

Gilda.

My two male best friends and I were obsessed with the original Charlie’s Angels and each had a poster of one of them. Being the closet gay, I chose Kate Jackson in her finest chaste Sabrina outfit.