If so, who? Denzel Washington?
Is there a Black male celebrity who was a sex symbol with both Black and White people?
by Anonymous | reply 161 | December 9, 2022 4:48 PM |
Lenny Kravitz, Idris Elba.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 2, 2022 9:44 PM |
Muhammad Ali
by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 2, 2022 9:44 PM |
O.J.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 2, 2022 9:45 PM |
O.J. Simpson
by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 2, 2022 9:45 PM |
Billy Dee Williams
by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 2, 2022 9:45 PM |
I’m not sure if Sidney Poitier was viewed as a sex symbol, someone correct me if I’m wrong but his image was so refined, but both white people and black people found him attractive.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 2, 2022 9:45 PM |
Harry Belafonte
by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 2, 2022 9:46 PM |
Lloyd Hanes
by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 2, 2022 9:46 PM |
R3 R4 Drag me but OJ was really handsome. Even at his trial.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 2, 2022 9:46 PM |
jinx R7
by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 2, 2022 9:47 PM |
R9 I agree. He was beautiful.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 2, 2022 9:48 PM |
Rhyheim shabazz
by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 2, 2022 9:48 PM |
Morris Chestnut
by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 2, 2022 9:49 PM |
Obama
by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 2, 2022 9:49 PM |
Billy Dee Williams.
But Jim Brown was the pioneer with "100 Rifles" in 1969. He was the first black actor in a Hollywood film shown in a sexy way.
Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier were seen as handsome but sort of asexual.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 2, 2022 9:51 PM |
Rossano Brazzi, Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman
by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 2, 2022 9:52 PM |
Prince
by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 2, 2022 9:52 PM |
Not a sex symbol but should have been - John Amos. Even Howard Stern thought he was handsome.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 2, 2022 9:52 PM |
Was Michael Jackson viewed as a sex symbol? Before he turned into Jigsaw.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 2, 2022 9:53 PM |
R20, I believe Jermaine was viewed as the sexy Jackson.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 2, 2022 9:54 PM |
Wesley Snipes. yum.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 2, 2022 9:55 PM |
All of 'em.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 2, 2022 9:56 PM |
Taye Diggs
by Anonymous | reply 24 | December 2, 2022 10:00 PM |
I think Chris Brown was on his way but then he beat up Rihanna.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | December 2, 2022 10:09 PM |
DL hates him but Will Smith
by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 2, 2022 10:15 PM |
No one has heard of him ^^^^^
by Anonymous | reply 28 | December 2, 2022 10:17 PM |
OP lives in Alabama or Mississippi.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | December 2, 2022 10:19 PM |
R29 No, I live in Maryland. I’m not white either.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | December 2, 2022 10:20 PM |
This thread was inspired by a Sidney Poitier documentary I watched.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | December 2, 2022 10:20 PM |
Does OP live under a rock. There have been MANY.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 2, 2022 10:20 PM |
Belafonte, Poitier, Kravitz, and Billy Dee.
Elba today.
And, as much as I hate to say it, Will Smith back in the Independence Day era when he could open a blockbuster without breaking a sweat.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 2, 2022 10:21 PM |
He wasn’t really allowed to be a sex symbol onscreen because of the times but it was clear white people found him attractive too.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | December 2, 2022 10:21 PM |
Denzel, OJ, Will Smith, Billy Dee Williams
Prince
by Anonymous | reply 35 | December 2, 2022 10:21 PM |
R33 Lenny Kravitz is not a sex symbol among black people.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | December 2, 2022 10:22 PM |
Like in Paris Blues, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were allowed to be sexy onscreen but Sidney and Diahann Carroll weren’t.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | December 2, 2022 10:23 PM |
Eldergays fingered their quims to this guy.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | December 2, 2022 10:23 PM |
Michael B Jordan
by Anonymous | reply 39 | December 2, 2022 10:24 PM |
The Rock
by Anonymous | reply 40 | December 2, 2022 10:24 PM |
OP is a troll.
Don't feed the troll.
Even if it's an official one.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | December 2, 2022 10:24 PM |
King Kong
by Anonymous | reply 42 | December 2, 2022 10:24 PM |
Idris
by Anonymous | reply 43 | December 2, 2022 10:24 PM |
R41 I’m not a troll. I literally started this thread after watching Oprah’s documentary about Sidney Poitier. He wasn’t allowed to be sexy onscreen because of the times but he obviously appealed to white audiences.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | December 2, 2022 10:25 PM |
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
by Anonymous | reply 45 | December 2, 2022 10:26 PM |
Jacob Artist
by Anonymous | reply 46 | December 2, 2022 10:26 PM |
Jacob Anderson
by Anonymous | reply 47 | December 2, 2022 10:27 PM |
I'm white. Grew up in white suburbia near NYC. Yes somehow I went to see many blaxploitation films. Many of the stars were super sexy and the theatres or drive ins were filled with white people. Richard Roundtree, Thalmus Rasulala.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | December 2, 2022 10:27 PM |
Jimi
by Anonymous | reply 49 | December 2, 2022 10:27 PM |
Sydney Poitier was not considered a sex symbol. Some of yall are applying 21st century culture and sensibilities to past eras.
Good looking and sexy symbol are not one in the same especially in 1960. As someone mentioned Sydney image was to refined to be considered a sex symbol. It's hard to imagine these distinctions because starting in the 80s everything had become sexualized.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | December 2, 2022 10:27 PM |
[quote] Sidney Poitier. He wasn’t allowed to be sexy onscreen
said Oprah.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | December 2, 2022 10:27 PM |
Sterling K Brown
by Anonymous | reply 52 | December 2, 2022 10:27 PM |
Mike Colter
by Anonymous | reply 53 | December 2, 2022 10:28 PM |
Common
by Anonymous | reply 54 | December 2, 2022 10:28 PM |
Taye Diggs
by Anonymous | reply 55 | December 2, 2022 10:28 PM |
Vin Diesel
by Anonymous | reply 56 | December 2, 2022 10:28 PM |
R50 I think Belafonte was more of a sex symbol. Especially in Carmen Jones.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | December 2, 2022 10:29 PM |
R44 "literally"
Let's not write like an ignorant child.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | December 2, 2022 10:29 PM |
Gary Dourdan
by Anonymous | reply 59 | December 2, 2022 10:29 PM |
R51 James Baldwin actually said that about Sidney.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | December 2, 2022 10:29 PM |
Rick Foxx
by Anonymous | reply 61 | December 2, 2022 10:29 PM |
Mason Gooding
by Anonymous | reply 62 | December 2, 2022 10:29 PM |
Meh. I saw Sidney Poitier movies growing up and he was handsome and sexy. Maybe his character couldn't do any sexy actions but HE WAS IN MOVIES BECAUSE HE WAS HANDSOME AND SEXY. Duh.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | December 2, 2022 10:30 PM |
R50 Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando were sex symbols in the 50’s.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | December 2, 2022 10:30 PM |
Omari Hardwick
by Anonymous | reply 65 | December 2, 2022 10:30 PM |
Aldis Hodge
by Anonymous | reply 66 | December 2, 2022 10:31 PM |
Ben Vereen
by Anonymous | reply 67 | December 2, 2022 10:31 PM |
Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando were black ? that's news to me.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | December 2, 2022 10:32 PM |
Boris Kodjoe
by Anonymous | reply 69 | December 2, 2022 10:32 PM |
Sorry, I thought that person was implying no sex symbols existed in the 50’s.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | December 2, 2022 10:32 PM |
R30
by Anonymous | reply 71 | December 2, 2022 10:33 PM |
R69 Boris isn’t a big star which is why I didn’t mention him but I agree. He’s really attractive.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | December 2, 2022 10:33 PM |
Michael Strahan
by Anonymous | reply 73 | December 2, 2022 10:33 PM |
Reggie Bush
by Anonymous | reply 74 | December 2, 2022 10:33 PM |
I always suspected Monroe and Brando. (Brando was part italian after all. )
by Anonymous | reply 75 | December 2, 2022 10:33 PM |
Jesse Williams
by Anonymous | reply 76 | December 2, 2022 10:34 PM |
Sammy davis Jr
by Anonymous | reply 77 | December 2, 2022 10:34 PM |
Mario Van Peebles
by Anonymous | reply 78 | December 2, 2022 10:35 PM |
R28 You live under a rock
by Anonymous | reply 79 | December 2, 2022 10:35 PM |
Shemar Moore. That man is or was hot. Haven’t seen recent pics.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | December 2, 2022 10:39 PM |
Algonquin J. Calhoun
by Anonymous | reply 81 | December 2, 2022 10:40 PM |
R80 Forgot about him. After Denzel he might be the biggest one of them all.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | December 2, 2022 10:41 PM |
Clifton Davis
He wore his shirts this way on the Match Game. I was eagle-eyed, hoping to see a nip slip.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | December 2, 2022 10:41 PM |
He wasn’t a sex symbol but wasn’t Nat King Cole attacked by the KKK after a performance because white women swooned over him?
by Anonymous | reply 84 | December 2, 2022 10:43 PM |
Jimmie "J. J." Walker
by Anonymous | reply 85 | December 2, 2022 10:44 PM |
Taye "Goat Boy" Diggs (as he was known on DL), R24? Oh my sides!
Jackie Jackson was the "sexy" Jackson; ask Paula Abdul.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | December 2, 2022 10:44 PM |
R63 but handsome or even feeling like a celeb is sexy is not what makes a sex symbol.. A sex symbol is a very specific brand. Starting in the 90s all good looking stars were marketed as sex symbols. Hell even ugly ones, see Daniel Craig.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | December 2, 2022 10:45 PM |
Read your typing gained dear. If white women swooned over Nat King Cole, and white men were threatened, that means Nat King Cole WAS a sex symbol.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | December 2, 2022 10:45 PM |
R84 probably. Whitey knows no limit of depravity and violence.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | December 2, 2022 10:46 PM |
Many.
Idris Elba, Billy Dee Williams, Prince, Wesley Snipes, Drake, Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson (prior to the Thriller era plastic surgery), Sidney Poitier, Dennis Rodman, Rick James, Harry Belafonte…probably a lot more athletes but I don’t follow sports.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | December 2, 2022 10:47 PM |
NFL legend Jim Brown may have provided the first look at a black cock for many Americans.
The guy had balls.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | December 2, 2022 10:47 PM |
R19 John Amos, with his Mr Evans tight trousers and velour shirt is a DL ICON!
by Anonymous | reply 92 | December 2, 2022 10:48 PM |
R90 Dennis Rodman has never been a sex symbol among black women, black men, black gays, black binaries, black asexuals, black vampires, etc.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | December 2, 2022 10:49 PM |
R93 Really? I thought he was sexy. And then he dated Madonna and I was turned off.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | December 2, 2022 10:51 PM |
Tupac?
by Anonymous | reply 95 | December 2, 2022 10:52 PM |
[quote] Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier were seen as handsome but sort of asexual.
Oh, my. Harry Belafonte was never seen as asexual.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | December 2, 2022 10:52 PM |
R75 Brando was French (probably Arcadian.) His real name was spelled "Brandeau."
by Anonymous | reply 97 | December 2, 2022 10:53 PM |
^ And he was from Nebraska.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | December 2, 2022 10:53 PM |
Come on R93 you’d turn THIS down? I doubt it!
by Anonymous | reply 99 | December 2, 2022 10:54 PM |
R69 and R72, I completely agree regarding Boris. Just beautiful.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | December 2, 2022 10:57 PM |
Blair Underwood
by Anonymous | reply 102 | December 2, 2022 10:58 PM |
Taye Diggs was hot
by Anonymous | reply 103 | December 2, 2022 11:02 PM |
R94 that's you. I'm sure someone thinks Jonah Hill is sexy. Doesn't make him a sex symbol.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | December 2, 2022 11:06 PM |
Taye Diggs still is hot
by Anonymous | reply 105 | December 2, 2022 11:07 PM |
Michael Ealy
by Anonymous | reply 106 | December 2, 2022 11:07 PM |
Marvin Gaye
by Anonymous | reply 107 | December 2, 2022 11:12 PM |
Fortunately, the United States is not only black and white, although everyone seems to presume that it is.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | December 2, 2022 11:14 PM |
Colin Powell
by Anonymous | reply 109 | December 2, 2022 11:16 PM |
Wentworth Miller
by Anonymous | reply 110 | December 2, 2022 11:17 PM |
Most black men who have been a sex symbol to black people have also been a sex symbol to white people, although white people have not always been open about it. The exception would be probably be thugs and rappers. They are ugly.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | December 2, 2022 11:29 PM |
Another vote for Blair Underwood! We used to call him Blair Underwear back in the LA Law days -
by Anonymous | reply 112 | December 2, 2022 11:30 PM |
Blair Underwood is also hot in Sex and the City.
Taye Digs is hot too.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | December 2, 2022 11:33 PM |
Eddie Murphy, Jamie Fox, Slash, lots of random singers in the 80’s & 90’s
by Anonymous | reply 114 | December 2, 2022 11:46 PM |
I feel like a stalker mentioning him for perhaps the third time this week but, seriously, Tony Todd.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | December 2, 2022 11:59 PM |
I remember there was a time when women of all races of a certain age found T.I. extremely sexy.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | December 3, 2022 12:00 AM |
Harry Belafonte - I'm old
by Anonymous | reply 117 | December 3, 2022 12:00 AM |
Many white women found 50 Cent hot
by Anonymous | reply 119 | December 3, 2022 12:01 AM |
One of my classmates in college interned at his company. She said he was still sexy even in old age.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | December 3, 2022 12:02 AM |
R118 Go directly to Jail. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
Your crime is all black people look alike syndrome.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | December 3, 2022 12:04 AM |
Gary Dourdan.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | December 3, 2022 12:07 AM |
R122, yeah good one. He will make a comeback.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | December 3, 2022 12:08 AM |
Phillip Michael Thomas
by Anonymous | reply 124 | December 3, 2022 12:14 AM |
Steph Curry
by Anonymous | reply 125 | December 3, 2022 12:14 AM |
Johnny Keyes
by Anonymous | reply 126 | December 3, 2022 12:15 AM |
Blake Griffin
by Anonymous | reply 127 | December 3, 2022 12:15 AM |
Wesley Snipes to black and Asian women.
It's weird that he's never been proclaimed as one of the great all around hunks, especially considering his popularity in the 90s. Super good looking, muscular, perfect physique.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | December 3, 2022 12:17 AM |
Looks like Blake's mom has discovered DL.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | December 3, 2022 12:17 AM |
Russell Wilson
by Anonymous | reply 130 | December 3, 2022 12:18 AM |
Sly Stone
by Anonymous | reply 131 | December 3, 2022 12:19 AM |
LL Cool J
by Anonymous | reply 132 | December 3, 2022 12:19 AM |
Stepin Fetchit.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | December 3, 2022 12:33 AM |
Trevor Noah
by Anonymous | reply 134 | December 3, 2022 12:34 AM |
R115 I’m with you. TT is a zaddy!
by Anonymous | reply 135 | December 3, 2022 1:35 AM |
R118 That's Travante Rhodes not Marshalla Ali. It's annoying me that you have not corrected your mistake.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | December 3, 2022 1:38 AM |
R116 and then they read about his fetish for a having a gynecology check his teen daughter’s hymen to ensure she was still a virgin….even though that is sexual abuse (Mary! I know) and also stupid because hymens can break from doing sports (or so I’ve read). Just revolting. Makes me glad I’m not a straight man; I cannot imagine getting off on that.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | December 3, 2022 1:38 AM |
Gynecologist not gynecology.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | December 3, 2022 1:39 AM |
Damon Wayans, Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans. Talented, hot and funny.
by Anonymous | reply 139 | December 3, 2022 1:43 AM |
Vin Diesel ...... isn't black in his mind. Whomever said Shemar is basically inviting him to DL. And he will stop by as he does to LSA when his name is invoked.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | December 3, 2022 1:47 AM |
R136, My mistake, I should have said, click on the link and scroll down to see Mahershala. But perhaps you are too literal for DL, race baiter.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | December 3, 2022 1:50 AM |
R141 OH please. You are a lying piece of shit.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | December 3, 2022 1:53 AM |
R140 It's funny because he isn't black to me either. However when you google pictures of him he defintely looked black when younger. I think the bald head combined with his features give him this ambiguous middle eastern look. His bio dad was definetly black.
by Anonymous | reply 143 | December 3, 2022 1:56 AM |
Ooh yeah Vin is hot.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | December 3, 2022 2:23 AM |
There are definitely a number of cross-racial sex symbols as of 2022. I can't think of any black man that white women openly swooned over before Denzel though.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | December 3, 2022 2:22 PM |
Shemar Moore. My mom (white lady) thought he was the sexiest thing on Young and the Restless.
I was at a Walmart near me a few years ago and the fat, white, tatted, trashy looking lady working the returns desk kept talking about Shemar to her coworker and calling him her baby daddy.
He was pretty hot.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | December 3, 2022 2:28 PM |
Was Phillip michael Thomas before Denzel?
by Anonymous | reply 148 | December 3, 2022 6:07 PM |
Todays white women openly love black men. It’s common
by Anonymous | reply 149 | December 3, 2022 6:08 PM |
R146. Umm OJ, Marvine Gaye, Jesus????.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | December 3, 2022 7:10 PM |
Morgan Freeman
by Anonymous | reply 151 | December 3, 2022 7:45 PM |
TJ Holmes
by Anonymous | reply 152 | December 3, 2022 9:45 PM |
Don Lemon
by Anonymous | reply 153 | December 3, 2022 9:59 PM |
I feel like Michael Jordan was a quasi crossover sex symbol in the 90s just because if his athletic prowess, winning streak, overall charisma. Face isn't bad looking either.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | December 3, 2022 10:01 PM |
Jesus was not a Black man, he was a Jew.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | December 3, 2022 11:03 PM |
Ken Norton, professional boxer and actor.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | December 9, 2022 2:19 AM |
Step’n Fetchit.
by Anonymous | reply 157 | December 9, 2022 2:53 AM |
No. I don't think so. I really can't think of anyone.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | December 9, 2022 3:04 AM |
Marlon Wayans was and still is sexy as fuck
by Anonymous | reply 159 | December 9, 2022 3:24 AM |
Someone said white people don’t know Shemar Moore. White women know Shemar Moore. He was on Young and the Restless for 10 years lol.
I’m going to second LL Cool J. I remember being a kid watching the “Doin’ It” video. He was sexy as fuck.
by Anonymous | reply 160 | December 9, 2022 4:27 AM |
Tyson Bedford
by Anonymous | reply 161 | December 9, 2022 4:48 PM |