Which Actor Made You Realize You Were Gay When You Were AKid?

Alejandro Rey from The Flying Nun

Mark Goddard on Lost in Space

Gary Conway on Land of the Giants

James Naughton on Planet of the Apes

Patrick Duffy

Seeing the postman dance in Sister Act 2! I had to keep rewinding but didn't know why exactly.

I wonder what happened to him.....

Jesse Metcalfe on Passions.

Richard Chamberlin "The Slipper and The Rose"

I wanted to be Maurice Evans from Bewitched.

I wanted to be Uncle Arthur, R7.

Jan Michael Vincent and Michael Ontkean

None.

I realized that by myself.

I suppose my first tv crushes were Batman and Robin, Will from Lost in Space, and Jody from Family Affair.

I was very disheartened to find out Will was a dirty hippy in real life as I didn't know Lost in Space was an old show. He wasn't a clean cute hippy like the 30 year olds in wigs who appeared as comic relief on various sitcoms.

And why weren't there cute boys dancing in their swimsuits with flowers painted on them on Laugh-In? Why was it just old men making jokes about their sweet bippies?

Was a bippie a kind of pickle?

Joe Dallesandro. Christopher Atkins.

Sean Connery in "Goldfinger".

Chris Atkins in the blue Speedo on 'Dallas'. I desperately wanted him to be my swim instructor.

Kevin Dobson on Kojak. I was only six or seven, but I never missed an episode. It took a few more years for me to realise why. By that time he was in Knot’s Landing in that ridiculous poodle wig, and I no longer found him attractive.

Chad Allen on Dr Quinn Medicine Woman.

Collecting gay nude centrefolds and ads of men in underwear from women's magazine's at the age of about 8.

The first man who made me feel a bit funny was Arnie in Terminator 2 (I know, so embarrassing). But I think I fully realized I was a homosexualist a few years later when I was forced to watch Mexican soap operas with my grandmother who babysat me - I was drooling over Fernando Colunga like a hungry puppy.

Howard McNear

Floyd the Barber on the Andy Griffith Show

Ricki Ricardo on ILL. Yes, I'm an eldergay. Hispanic and Arab men have been a consistent "type" for men since pre-school.

Brian Kelly.

Pat Boone in Journey to the Center of the Earth.

As a little boy, I was obsessed with David Cassidy. By the time his brother Shaun came onto the scene, I started to piece together why.

Michael Landon. I was always hoping Pa would fall off a horse so he'd have to have his ribs patched up and be shirtless.

[quote]Michael Landon. I was always hoping Pa would fall off a horse so he'd have to have his ribs patched up and be shirtless.

I guess there wouldn't have been any scenes where he spilled coffee or tomato sauce on his shirt while visiting someone, and his hostess (or, preferably, host) offered to throw it in the washer and dryer.

The man who played 'Seth Starkadder' in the 60's version of 'Cold Comfort Farm'.

He wore leather trousers so low on his hips I'm sure he would have had to shave his pubes.

Sam Elliott on Lifeguard was on TV and....

This admission should win me a DL award: As a young gayling (4 or 5), whenever 'Facts of Life' came on, I'd run to the bathroom and get my hooded towel, so I could wear it and watch along as Lisa Whelchel sashayed around with her perfect, huge, 80s hair. Any time she flipped her hair, I'd flip the towel over my shoulder. I have no idea how my mother put up with the level of homosexual ridiculousness. (Years later, she heard Lisa speak at a Christian women's conference, and told me I would've enjoyed her talk. I instantly remembered the towel hair flips and told my mum I don't think the other Christian ladies would've tolerated that well.)

Oh plenty. I grew up in the 1970's so there's plenty of male eye candy from that era.

Tim Considine on Walt Disney Presents "The Swamp Fox." Though I was only a little kid, and had no idea yet about the joys of dicksucking, I knew I wanted to invite Tim Considine to sleep over. In my bed, with me, of course.

Embarrassing to me now, but what did I know?

Billy Zane’s ass in Dead Calm. Costner in “Dances with Wolves.”

Ewan McGregor belting out “the hills are alive...” in Moulin Rouge!

Chris O'Donnell in Batman Forever and Batman & Robin

Several -

Brian Kelly (Flipper), Mark Goddard (Lost in Space) and James Darren (The Time Tunnel)

he is not an actor but Morten Harket of A-ha and his appearance on TOTP showing off his looks, muscles , buldge and bum was to die for.

Ron Ely, tv’s Tarzan.

R30 I too used to drool over his ass. He would have to be a Christian Shit Stain fundie too.

Eric Estrada’s black Speedo, I was a young gayling TRAUMATIZED by so much bulge and leg!

You can keep Susan Dey.

Rick Schroder on Silver Spoons

Damon Pampolina from the 1980s Mickey Mouse Club

Forbes Robertson on the stage!

Probably Lee Majors in 'The Big Valley.' Seeing him shirtless gave me all sorts of funny feelings. I crushed on him pretty hard, but even then knew I had to keep that to myself.

^^^ Tight hole.

He had been dead for almost a decade, but I remember seeing a magazine article on Elvis Presley's 1956 rise to stardom. He was gorgeous. When I saw a photo of 21-year-old Elvis, I knew I was different and I had no idea what that meant.

Him.

Lloyd Bridges (Sea Hunt)

Robert Conrad (Wild Wild West)

Mark Goddard (Lost In Space)

R45, I've been re-watching 'The Wild Wild West' a few episodes a day for the past week or so. I'm still in the First Season, B&W.

On one of the discs, there's a special feature, an excerpt from a talk show from 1978 called 'Every Day,' where Robert Conrad and Ross Martin were guests, ostensibly to plug 'The Wild Wild West Revisited.' In the interview, Conrad and Martin throw some kind of shade at Richard Chamberlin, which to my ears sound like they might be casting aspersions on his sexualiity. I've been wondering about it. Check it out - around [bold]7:30[/bold]:

Mark Goddard, Burt Ward, the Green Hornet guy, Kent McCord, William Reynolds on The FBI. But the one who really made me squirm was Dick Martin on Laugh-In.

I practically came from just seeing the ads for this TV movie!

The men of Battle of The Network Stars, particularly Mark Harmon. That show is the only time I have willingly watched a televised sporting event, lol!

Rr45 -- a (male) friend of mine had an affair with Conrad (he was a bully and a bottom) and said that Conrad was always picking up twinks in LA but was insanely terrified anyone would find out he was gay, or bisexual - he knew it would ruin his macho career. So if he was throwing shade at Chamberlain, it was because he was probably both jealous and scared.

That's standard homophobic closet-case behavior, r51.

Are we doing this damn thread AGAIN?!?!?!

AND AGAIN?!?!?!

And again?

And then?

And then?

And then?

And then?

And then?

And then?

AND THEN?!?!?!?

The first I recognized as a crush was Peter Duel from Alias Smith & Jones, then young Randolph Mantooth from Emergency!, Erik Estrada from CHIPS, and Jon-Erik Hexum from Voyagers.

Peter Duel pic. Two out of my four named above ended up shooting themselves. What’s that about?

Have to hand it to whatever morbidly obese eldergay had time and energy to find all those earlier threads.

Someone give that bitch a cookie.

Third times a charm

I'd say Gary Sandy and Andy Travis's tight jeans on WKRP.

A few soap actors. Mostly because early/mid 80s was the prime time for a lot of them to be seen shirtless or in Speedos, etc. Especially John Wesley Shipp (later Dawson's dad) and Grant Aleksander.

When I was a kid in the early 90s, Elijah Wood in The Good Son trailer did something for me.

Gary Sandy certainly did fill out his jeans nicely.

I forgot about how my young loins burned for Robert Fuller from Laramie.

musclemusclemuscle.... steve reeves, reg park, clint walker and others in sword and sandal movies...

the paul brothers (the barbarian brothers), dolph lundgren in he-man...

robert horton, lee majors, gil gerard, cal bolder, mike henry, jorge rivero, robert conrad, brian kelley, batman tv show, jan michael vincent, tom selleck,

countless 80's and 90's soap opera hunks...

american gladiators and their international gladiator counterparts...

so so many more...

Antonio Sabato Jr in his underwear ads

Ah R2, I'm so glad you brought up James Naughton and Planet of the Apes.

He, Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky) and James Franciscus (Beneath the Planet of the Apes) were a big part of my childhood.

Steve Guttenberg. The answer to these kinds of questions is always (for me)...Steve Guttenberg.

The Hardy Boys

Dukes of Hazard

The Six Million Dollar Man

r71 I definitely knew by the late 80s but yes, the American Gladiators! Nobody cared that they were total butterfaces.

Eric Estrada

[R73] I posted on another thread that I actually had the occasion (after a cast party during the early run of Chicago) to tell James Naughton about my childhood crush on him. He was very sweet about it -I walked away feeling happy that I'd told him, rather than embarrassed.

Gil Gerard - "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" Ron Ely - "Tarzan"

That's a lot of guys, r71. Is that why you're such a slut?

Dick Martin? R48?

Was it all the bippie references?

R69 i remember wondering how they let him get away with that. Every pair of jeans looked like that

Clint Walker. Daddy!

[quote][R71] I definitely knew by the late 80s but yes, the American Gladiators! Nobody cared that they were total butterfaces

Turbo certainly wasn’t a butterface. He was my favorite and definitely made me realize that men crank my yank. I couldn’t have cared less about the female gladiators and contestants.

Yes, yes, yes, R34!

A tag team with Brian Kelly and James Darren. James Darren was actually hairy. Had Hollywood left that alone, just imagine the photos we would have today!

Heaven!!!

I am mortified about this confession. I found my parents old copy of Risky Business in the 90's. I used to j/o to the opening scene where Tom Cruise was fucking the hooker. Tom Cruise - ewwww. I think I always knew I was gay, but he was the first actor or at least sex scene that really got me horny.

Oh god. Don’t forget Spencer 4 hire. Trying so hard to be a tough guy poet Everyman with his faithful archangel dark skinned sidekick to bail him out. I used to be so impressed by his literary references.

Pulled up some episodes last week. Not awful, but his relationship with the DA (Olivet from L&O) was a bit over the top. But not unwatchable.

R85 - I didn't know Darren was hairy.

But sorry to admit that I prefer the prettier/shaved version of the guy.

I got a little chubby with this thread.

Lloyd Bridges on "Sea Hunt" raised the question

George Maharis on "Route 66" sealed the deal

[quote] [R69] i remember wondering how they let him get away with that. Every pair of jeans looked like that

Tight jeans were all the rage back in those days. Displaying the package was all part of the masculine allure and movies and TV capitalized on it in spades. They knew it would be a big draw to the female audience (not to mention, the gay audience). As long as the actual meat wasn't on display all was good.

With Fred Dryer in HUNTER, he might as well have just whipped it out in every episode because his tight jeans pretty much showed it all.

I'm sure Gary Sandy padded his jeans too, but at that time it was all fantasy anyway, and you settled for what you could get.

I mean now you can look at an erect penis on your phone!

mmm. fred dwyer

I wasn't aware of Clint Walker until his heyday had passed. He would have brought those furious and frequent adolescent masturbation sessions to record levels.

How old are you guys on this thread? I don't know who 95% of these guys are.

^^ And yet you have this handy piece of equipment connect to this -What do you call it? Internet? Where you might discover things...

Be still you little sissy.

Kurt Russell - The Travels of Jamie McPheeters 1963- 1964.

[quote]And yet you have this handy piece of equipment connect to this -What do you call it? Internet? Where you might discover things...

And if there were only some sort of [bold]D[/bold]ata[bold]b[/bold]ase for [bold]M[/bold]ovies and television on this [bold]I[/bold]nternet thing somewhere.

A few more drinks and you’ll be fine r100

This guy!!!!!! I found my spirit animal when I saw him the first time!

The Fred Dryer images posted so far don't tell the full story. This is a better example of his obscene bulge.

And this one.

And of course, we can't forget this display.

^You can see dick AND what is obviously a heavy sack. I know his jeans smelled heavenly at the end of a day.

Gil Gerard in Buck Rogers.

Few have aged as badly as the formerly gorgeous Gil Gerard.

Interestingly English is what is known as a West Germanic language along with German and Dutch. In fact I think it was the movie Downfall all ib German but certain phrases in German are exact as they are in English. Surprised the hell out of me when I watched that movie, and Hitler melting down was funny.

Christopher Reeve

The Rock (98/99 version)

Christopher Atkins

David Soul

Watching afternoon reruns of Leave it To Beaver I discovered Tony Dow aka Wally. I haven't been the same since.

Definitely Zac Efron.

Brian Wimmer (Boonie) of China Beach

[R112]Sigh. Me too. Face it though-terrible actor, great ass!

r112 and r117 you must remember his male-stripper movie, right?

There was always s rumor - urban myth? - that he actually put his dick in her during one of their loves scenes and that you can tell the moment when you watch it

Her...

speaking of "a night in heaven" with atkins.... their sex scene on the bed and in the hotel room was pretty scorching soft porn in it's day,even now it's pretty amazing, i mean they showed atkins erection in side profile for a few moments! lost track of how many times i whacked off to this scene over the years.. but i've always wondered ....

based on her, lesley ann warren's teacher character's physical and facial reactions and her orgasmic cries/crying during the screwing of her by her much younger male stripper student, were we the audience suppose to think while watching this that either 1) atkins' character was so great in screwing women (and a great dick as well) to make her react this way? or 2) that she was so damn horny, lonely, desperate for sex that any guy would have made her react this way?.... heck, maybe a combination of both #1 and #2?..

funny though in that looking at this movie, now the husband of her character was waaaaaaaaaaaaaay hotter then atkins! he was a MAN, and atkins in real life and his character was a boy.... the husband was handsomer, more masculine, bigger, taller, everything...