Movie moments that made you realize you were gay

Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire.

Also, Cold Creek Manor is such a guilty pleasure. So horrible, but campy & corny. Quaid/Stone/Dorff/J.Lewis it’s a rainy day movie for me.

R2 I recently re-watched it for the first time in at least a decade, and I wholly agree. It came out when I was around 14, and I think I rented it from the video store. It's a completely by-the-numbers thriller, but it's atmospheric and still a lot of fun (and Stephen Dorff's body still looks just as good as it did to me when I was a hormonal teenager).

Tommy Kirk in Swiss Family Robinson ... a very long time ago.

Matt Dilon's jean-clad ass in 'Little Darlings'.

Tim Considine in whatever Walt Disney program he was pimping at the moment (The Hardy Boys, Spin & Marty, The Swamp Fox).

Arnie's ass in The Terminator.

Molly Ringwald wearing that prom dress in Pretty in Pink. I kept thinking pink was not her color but it could be mine.

Pink [italic]is[/italic] my color, r8. The perfect complement to my skin tone. I limit it to oxford cloth and polo-type shirts, though.

I saw "Ode To Billy Joe" when I was about 11 and it gave me a strange feeling. Even though the subject matter was lurid, I kinda knew I wasn't going to be like other little boys.

Legally Blonde—when she stomped her shoes I immediately knew they weren’t last season and that they were Pradas.

By the time Dawson took load number 36, I knew it was the thing for me.

R9 My colors are blush and bashful.

Seeing Rolf in his form-fitting Hitler Youth uniform. Beat me with your belt Master till I whimper Do Me Do Me Do Me!

If I’d been man-eating Gretta, those bitches would have been going over the alps minus one family member!

Not a "moment" exactly, but the fact I kept going back to see An Unmarried Woman over and over, age 15 was a clue.

How many str8 15-year-old boys were doing that?

Well, r15, we hope you [italic]didn't[/italic] get a permanent case of the clap, nor have your pecker fall off.

I was 27 at the time, so I was able to combine trips to the Paramount with visits to 162 Spring Street (and Julius' and the Ninth Circle) at each of which I drank nothing but white wine that year.

Lip synching perfectly to “Don’t Rain on my Parade” on the Staten Island Ferry.

Superman 2

Romeo, of course

Charlie Chaplin in the clock gears in Modern Times.

I know — I'm very, very old. There was an episode of Superman, the 50s TV series, where Clark Kent gets into the shower, and someone has put Kryptonite in the shower head, and he falls down. For a brief moment, you see George Reeves's torso. I knew instantly what kind of body I was interested in.

Tony Dow as Wally Cleaver in Leave it To Beaver. As an early teen I remember watching reruns of the show and crushing on Tony Dow.

Sean Connery in "Diamonds are Forever." There's a scene where he walks into Jill St. John's bedroom. The camera is on her, but off camera, you hear the sound of Sean Connery unzipping his pants, then the camera pans back to him and he's shirtless.

Just the suggestion that Connery was getting naked was such a turn on to my 12-year old pubescent self, I knew at that moment I liked boys a lot more than girls.

Every moment Franco Nero was on screen in CAMELOT had me transfixed and wanting more. I was only 11 , but I knew something big was happening inside. Life was never the same after that Sunday matinée.

Richard Gere working out in American Gigolo

R25 Seeing Sean Connery in Goldfinger did it for me, instant hard on.

I remember being about 7 years old and watching an old Tarzan movie on TV and seeing Johnny Weismuller in a loin cloth. I remember nothing else about the movie except him. It was as if Jane wasn't even in the movie.

When I was 15, I saw the movie Semi-Tough. In the first few minutes of the film, there's a locker room shower scene. I remember seeing a bunch of beautiful male asses and flopping penises and not remembering anything else about the movie after that.

I went back and saw that movie three times just for that scene. I still can't tell you what the movie's about beyond those first few minutes.

Ryan Phillipe's ass in little shiny grey shorts as a busboy in 54. That was it, I knew.

Jan Michael Vincent on The Banana Splits - Uh oh Bongo Danger Island!

The locker room scene in "Footloose". Seeing John Laughlin's beefy ass on screen and think about how Kevin Bacon and Chris Penn would have been naked with him a few seconds earlier made my 13 year heart beat faster.

The King and I during the Shall We Dance number. I admired how her dress flowed as they danced. Oh, and to be held by Yul Brynner.

Luke Halpin, the older brother on 1960's TV show Flipper.

Jan-Michael Vincent in Baby Blue Marine . . .

2001 Maniacs, The character, Nelson, was the only one on the spring break trip who didn't find anyone to hook up with. So since he had nobody to fuck he had to hump a pillow and while he was doing it you could see his bare ass jiggle. It was very hot.

the shower scene in europa europa

R27, pre-code movies are so sexy.

Call me.

Excalibur. I was 10. I remember being more into seeing Sir Lancelot naked then Guenevere.

Talking of R. Gere.

Early eroticism of my movie going life was his Goodbar jock strap.

Heck, I can't think of the exact movie moment I knew I was gay but I do remember Breathless with Richard Gere. I wore that VHS tape out while replaying his multiple nude scenes.

Brad Davis in the shower scene in “Midnight Express”.

The locker room scene in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. I was 12 and was absolutely transfixed; I'm sure my mother wondered why I begged to go see it again and again!

It was most definitely Christopher Reeve as Superman that sealed the deal, but as a kid watching Errol Flynn as Robin Hood in the 1939 classic film on TV was a definite indicator that I was a gayling!

The usual. Gladiator movie afternoon tv when kid.

Pat Boone in Journey to the Center of the Earth....

That belongs in the "Embarrassing celebrity crushes" thread, R46.

When I was a kid, HBO would show Personal Best (the Mariel Hemingway movie about runners) at least once a week. Probably because there is a shit-ton of nudity and lesbian sex in it.

I was often unattended as a child, so I would watch it all the time, and as soon as we got a VCR I recorded it.

Of course the scene I like is when Mariel's boyfriend (apparently played by an actual athlete who never really acted again) gets out of bed, completely naked, to go to pee. Mariel follows him and asks is she can hold it while he does it, and he lets her.

I had no idea what being gay meant or what sex was, but I knew the idea of holding someone's penis was so exciting to me I would watch it over and over.

I should have known when I made my parents let me see The Way We Were. They should have too.

Male strippers in "Mr. Mom."

How about when little seven year old me tried to imitate Miss Diana Ross in Mahogany.

For me, and I'm sure other elder gays, it wasn't a movie but Robert Conrad in tv show The Wild Wild West wearing his tight blue pants.

The one scene in Three's Company where the 2 girls seemingly stripping the John Ritter's character from his clothes.

I'm an Elder so I go a little ways back....Hayley Mills

Hayley again.

Hayley Mills wins "Worst Wig Ever" for "The Parent Trap."

Hayley Mills was a horrible actress and so fuckin' ugly I couldn't understand what Walt Disney saw in her.

AH, EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Steve reeves, reg park and other sword and sandal movies..the homoerotica of the batman tv show, robert conrad in wild wild west,

anything with thee one and only clint walker!

pro wrestling and in the 80's pro wrestling, bodybuilding on tv, throughout the 80's and 90's the chippendales and other male stripper groups on daytime tv and night time entertainment shows constantly, ESPN's workout shows, lee majors, gil gerard, pro and college football when the teams back in the day wore more see thru pants and only jockstraps underneath and one could see jockstrap straps and ass skin as clear as day... the american gladiator show, soap opera hunks and so so so so much more!

[quote]For me, and I'm sure other elder gays, it wasn't a movie but Robert Conrad in tv show The Wild Wild West wearing his tight blue pants.

Plus he was always shirtless showing off his furry pecs.

speaking of conrad, i think i actually preferred his butt when he was older and heavier in the 1977 or so tv show 'black sheep squadron"..

a decade earlier his ass on the wild wild west was 'shapely" and "pert" more "boyish like".. whereas flash forward 10 years later, his ass was beefier and more thick and shapely more "manlier like"..

as well as it's one thing for his ass to look awesome in those "stretchy material" pants he wore on the wild wild west.. IT's QUITE ANOTHER thing to on black sheep squadron for him to wear his khaki pants of thick material and have them so tight that you would LITERALLY see his underwear panty lines! can you all even fathom how spray painted on tight those khaki material pants had to be that conrad wore to see his underwear panty lines showing!?!!!!!!!!!!!

totally awesome!..

SO SICK OF THIS THREAD EVERY 4 MONTHS

The Aspie Thread Copycat just keeps doing this thread OVER AND OVER AND OVER ...

PLEASE F&F THE LAZY PIG OP.

There is nothing wrong with the dozens of threads IN RECENT CIRCULATION on this topic. It has to be a troll at this point.

R52 hit the nail right on the head. Or the butt. Both were amazing.

Airotica, starting about 3 minutes in

No "the Glee version is better" collection is complete without "Teenage Dream."

I blame Tim Robbins in BULL DURHAM. I was 14 or 15 or 16 when the movie came out. I thought it would be a fun baseball movie, but at one point Susan Sarandon ties Tim up in bed while he's only wearing a jock strap. Later on in the movie, for about five seconds there's a scene of Tim Robbins wearing only a jock strap in a baseball stadium.

I was mesmerized by those scenes and when I looked down at myself, my cock was rock hard. That's when I knew why I wasn't so interested in kissing girls.

Maybe I've seen the film ten times in my life. I don't think I've seen Tim Robbins shirtless in anything else, but I'm still hoping.

After school, I would do my homework in the dining room, but leave the tv on in the living room. Mostly for background noise.

Unless it was " Planet of the Apes" week, then if no one was home, I'd sit mesmerized by James Franciscus' body in a loincloth running around the planet helpless knowing I wanted to run around in a loincloth with him.

Romeo and who gives a fuck.

Kurt Russell in any of his 80's films

Christen Slater's ass, pubes and top of his dick in "The Name Of The Rose" was the first overly scene I saw that turned me on but years before that, I just adored watching shirtless men shave in Gillette commercials. Those commercials did something to my mind although I did not know what it was at the time. I just knew I loved watching them.

adding to my comments R58... i would also add mike henry and gordon scott as tarzan, reb brown in "Sssssss" and anything, mexican movie star and sex symbol of the 60s, 70s, 80s actor JORGE RIVERO...