Did you have any childhood celebrity crushes who actually turned out to be gay?

Burt Reynolds

Dan Abrams

Yes, OP.

My college crush was not in my program.

Joel Crothers.

Brian Kerwin — guess he decided to go to Jesus instead of the local gay bar.

Must have been a very, very tough decision.

Joel Crothers was so hot

Scatman Crothers

John Travolta

Ricky Martin

Boo Boo from "Boys 4 Now"

Michael Stipe.

Arthur Nory

Montgomery Clift.

I'd need to add River Phoenix to the list. Not sure he was "gay" but even the reports of him being bisexual was an extraordinary moment in my youth.

I had a crush on Phoenix, too

Walt Whitman

Phillip Schofield, he was an incredibly cute TV presenter when he was younger, he's still pretty hot now

Came out early last year

This hot guy in this Natalie Imbruglia video. He is still the top of my dreams.

Abe Lincoln

^ elder elder gay

Me too R19. His name is Jeremy Sheffield.

R19 His name is Jeremy Sheffield. When he played "Patrick Blake" on Hollyoaks a few years ago, he was one hot daddy. I wish he'd get more roles.

R23 He was a hot daddy even back then. I love that he looks like a total top and you just know that’s the case.

R10 Ricky Martin is bi you stupid cunt!

R19 I'm not sure Jeremy Sheffield has ever been 'in' he was a ballet dancer who became an actor.

I've never read one interview where he's been anything but totally out.

Paul Lynde

Jim McGreevy.

All of them turned out to be bi.

R26 In his 2001 Interview with "Attitude" magazine, Sheffield told them that he didn't come out until right about the time he'd decided to quit ballet:

[quote] And so he left (ballet), but not before coming out, rather late he says, at 25, "You would think it was an easy place to come out but I didn't think so. It was the usual story. I knew for a long time I was gay but was too scared. The persona that loads of people knew me to be I knew wasn't really me. I found it difficult to express myself freely. I lived with a girl for three years and it was a great experience but it wasn't right. It wasn't fair on her or me so it became inevitable that we'd split."

Jeremy Sheffield is hot

Will Marshall from the TV show "Land of the Lost" (Wesley Eure).

Lance Bass

I actually know a FEMALE who had a crush on Lance Bass when she was a tween. In case you are wondering, yes, she did have terrible gaydar

Most females do R34.

r35, that's a lie!

Roddy McDowall

John Wesley Shipp

Michael T. Weiss

Fred from "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?"

R30 It actually makes sense he would wait to come out in ballet. I knew a girl that studied ballet, she was chosen to attend our state's residential Governor's School of the Arts. She said the ballet guys acted worse than any football players she had met. Because they know how others perceive them, they try to crank the macho bro shit up to 11 and are very homophonic. And, they sleep with every female ballerina.

R39 that's bisexuality. GAY MEN DON'T HAVE SEX OR FALL IN LOVE WITH FEMALES.

Liberace

Anderson Cooper. I was a teenager, not a child, but I had a crush on him when he was the anchor on ABC's news show that came on really late (or was it really early?)

Greg Louganis.

Michael W Smith

R19 Don’t recall seeing that video before. Cute premise and they’re actually both adorable. I didn’t realize she was so pretty.

Farley Granger

Grandpa Fletcher

[quote] and are very homophonic.

They all sounded alike?

I had a crush on Zac Efron. The jury is still out on that one.

Zorro.

I believe he was married to a woman and all, but....come on.

Jonathan Bennett.

I would have said Ricky Martin as well but he apparently still enjoys seafood.

R40 No, many/most of them identified as straight. They weren't sleeping with each other. They were sleeping with females, and hazing and acting like douchey macho bros with one another. That isn't bisexuality. That is just straight guys, afraid of how the rest of the world perceives them and overcompensating.

Richard Chamberlain

R52 Not true. I have a friend who constantly fucked Jonathan Bennett during his Mean Girls years. He said that Bennett was a total cum whore and even liked to get tag teamed.

Maharis

R54 I wasn't talking about Jonathan Bennett, himself, in R52 nor R39. I was describing the general homophobic environment among male ballet dancers, especially the younger ones.

Elton.

Nice, r55! Hole, cock and feet in one fell swoop!

George Maharis was fiiiine

George was cute by the fake hair was really noticeable.

Tigger.

Antony Hamilton was the earliest I can think of who turned out to be gay. Though while I wouldn't call it a crush, I did think Russell Todd from Where the Boys Are 84 was smoking hot.

RIP Antony Hamilton

[quote] All of them turned out to be bi.

A rose by any other name.

Papa Smurf

[quote] A rose by any other name.

Oh, I don’t think I’d like any other name.

Ty Hardin as Bronco.

Tiny greaser Nick Adams in his tight jeans.

In fact, most of the cowboys.

Jeffrey Hunter.

Sad, but true, Maharis and his toupee are MAGA.

I don't think Ty Hardin was gay

Zack on saved by the bell

Mark Paul isn’t gay. I never got gay vibes from him at all.

Kristen Stewart & Drew Barrymore

Zac isn't gay, either

R73 Sure Jan.

Have Brian Kerwin or Dirk Benedict come out?

R62 I too had the gayling hots for Antony Hamilton. From the dish I've read on DL over the years, he was quite the insatiable bottom. Our gaydar was flawless!

Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables

R5 In the late 50s, Joel was on Broadway in "The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker." In the early 80s chatted him up at The Eagle. At first he denied who he was. After mentioning mutual kid actor friends we had, we talked. Said he had to be careful in a gay bar because his Procter & Gamble "Edge of Night" contract had a "Morals Clause." When soap actors died of AIDS P&G told the viewers it was cancer.

R76 I always assume this place is infested with bottom sluts. Wouldn’t finding out your celeb crush is a nasty insatiable bottom whore be a HUGE let down?

Two, the first when I was about nine and watched the Saturday morning live action kid’s show The Kids from C.A.P.P.E.R. with the beautiful blond bowl haircut Biff Warren who played the sweet, shy Doomsday. He was really Mark Hamill before Mark Hamill. He was in a TV movie called Zuma Beach where he played a usually shirtless beach bully. He died of AIDS at 38 in the early 90s.

The 2nd was Merritt Butrick who played Johnny Slash on Square Pegs and was a huge crush on me as well as an early introduction to New Wave and a style icon. He was also in an early Star Trek movie playing William Shatner’s son. He too died of AIDS just before the end of the ‘80s at the age of 29.

As a 10 year old in the 70s, I developed a crush on Lena Horne after I saw her on a Flip Wilson show. She may have turned out to be gay, but that wouldn't interest me much...

R32 I ran into Wesley in a gay bar in Las Vegas during the mid 1980s.

Will from that 70s "Land of the Lost" kids TV show. I was a kid, and TOTALLY had a crush on Will. Couldn't take my eyes off him.

I was delighted to near that the actor, Wesley Eure, came out as gay.

R83, any details?

Chad Allen - Our House.

I preferred the dad, R32.

R81: I'll always think of Sarah Jessica Parker as from Square Pegs.

I had a crush on Hugh O'Brian. Knew I was gay when I saw that thick black hair billowing out of his shirt. Figure he was gay. Didn't marry until he was 81, wife was 54.

George Michael

R90 he was bi.

JC Chasez.

Lucky I turned out to be a dyke anyway.

I became friends with someone simply because he had an affair with Robert Conrad, my first crush.

Didn't have good things to say about him however.

R87, funny that you mentioned the dad. I was going to say that I liked both Will and Mr. Marshall.

Ralph Carter, who played Michael on "Good Times"

I liked him too^.

Biff Warren wasn’t necessarily gay, although he did die of AIDS.

R85, what do you mean by any details? This has been on the Datalounge for more than a decade. Let's just say LH's second husband, the white one, was as gay as an Easter basket. She went her own way.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas from Home Improvement was my first crush. I’m still waiting for him to come out. I haven’t lost hope yet!

David Marshall Grant from French Postcards and American Flyers.

Link, r68?

R85 Only that it was like 4:30/5:00 AM in the morning. I worked at the bar next door and stopped in for a quick minute. He was kind of sloppy drunk at the bar, but he was kind of holding court with lots of admirers gathered around.

Christian Slater, if bisexual closet-cases count.

Yes, Gleaming the Cube Christian Slater. Then Christian said he liked to be rimmed on Howard Stern. That was hot.

Walter Brennen

Oh oh oh Richard Deacon!

I watched "Hee Haw" as a kid even rhough I didn't like country music. I had a crush on Buck Owens then. Now I read on Datalounge that he swung both ways!

R101 Others on DL have claimed that Maharis is a lifetime Republican, so I decided to check some databases for campaign donations to see if there was any truth to this. I went back several election cycles, and it shows contributions to Bush-Cheney, Dump, and the RNC. He also supported Rethug Cox in the California governor's race. Here's a screencap of one of the pages.

R108 George Maharis is sadly a self loathing gay. He'll be dead soon. Not worth the attention.

R108, ugh. I hate it when crushes turn out to be freepers

I don't buy it. Get him on the phone.

Thom Bierdz for me. He was so gorgeous circa 1986.

Bump

Diedre Hall as Electra Woman.

Jonathan Knight from NKOTB

Dennis Christopher and Danny Pintauro.

I had a crush on Anderson Cooper when he was on Channel 1

Bobby Sherman though it just seems to be speculation.