Who was your gay awakening?

[TruHart1]

Ron Ely from Tarzan and John Schneider from Dukes of Hazard!

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2 hours ago, wsc said:

No offense intended, and just to clarify given your avatar, Skippy was a human, right, and not a puppy?

Curses, foiled again!  😆

 

 

 

[Nightowl]

I don’t know who it was specifically but it was probably someone with a (very) hairy chest, possibly Sean Connery or Tom Selleck.

[+ Charlie]

I had only been in 5th grade for about one month, when my teacher decided I was too intellectually advanced for the grade and arranged for me to be moved ahead one grade. Suddenly I was the youngest boy in the class, and all the boys in my new class were more physically mature than I was, and the oldest boy in the class immediately attracted my attention (he had been left back a grade, so he was two years older than I was.) I was just beginning to realize that I was attracted to males, and Ricky was already beginning to develop a youthful athletic body. He had black hair and a devilishly handsome face, and he was admiringly considered one of the "bad boys" by his classmates (his teachers usually considered his behavior problematic, but of course his classmates thought he was fun--he said and did things they wouldn't dare do). I found myself often fantasizing about him during my early experimentation with masturbation.

This topic led me to find my old high school yearbook (we graduated at the same time), and looking at his photo, I can still see exactly why he turned me on. 

[Rayphactor]

On 9/13/2026 at 9:39 PM, moreofthat said:

Which male-presenting public figure was the first to make you think you might like boys?

Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Saved by the Bell fame. And Justin Berfield of Malcolm in the Middle fame.

Non-public figure was my dorm roommate my sophomore year of college. Walked in on him pleasuring himself right at as he unloaded. Had the best sex of my life up to that point with my girlfriend at the time thinking of him.

[+ Snbrd]

First inkling was when I went to see Tarzan in High School. My friends were all revved up about Bo Derek. I however, couldn't take my eyes off of Myles O'Keefe.  

[TruHart1]

Adding a non-famous figure who made me absolutely certain I liked men, was my coach in 8th grade. I can’t even remember his name but oh boy do I remember his gorgeous face, body and endowment!!!

The coach’s office in my junior high locker room had glass walls so you could see into it at all times. This particular coach had just turned 24 or 25 and did not have any qualms about changing in and out of his clothes/gym clothes (including his jock strap!) in full view of us boys.

I remember seeing him strip down to full nudity with such clarity, even to remembering every little blemish on his tight, defined body. The man clarified exactly what is referred to as a swimmer’s body, to me, in all the best ways possible.

I used his image for self-pleasuring throughout my teen years and into my twenties: his perfectly tan, toned muscles, blonde, sun-bleached hair, his amazingly handsome face, including his beautiful, striking blue eyes, his impressively large, cut endowment (always soft, but to me, at that time, the biggest I’d ever seen!) epitomized pure, lustful sexuality, and, added to that, his always take-charge attitude (he was in charge, after all! LOL.)

I had heard at the time that he and his young wife had just had a baby, so I’ve never been in doubt that he was as straight as could be, but as fantasies went, he has remained my ultimate fantasy throughout my lifetime!

TruHart1 😎

[+ sniper]

Probably Nicholas Hammond in the Spider-Man tv series in the 70s. Or Lyle Waggoner on Wonder Woman.

[+ Pensant]

Robert Wagner.

Edited Friday at 10:48 AM by Pensant

[TMB]

Michael Young on "Kids Are People, Too!" 

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Along my way, another of my crushes was Davy Jones of the Monkees:

[nomad]

Whoever happened to be in the pages of the latest catalog from IM.  Skip to the underwear and swimsuit sections obviously.  💦💦💦

[Straightbutdumb]

My gay awakening was the locker room in high school. We used to have a swimming pool, so there was ample nudity before and after swimming. Also, my high school didn't have many jocks. I suspect that's why I've been forever stuck on twinks. (I think DiCaprio was the biggest superstar back then as well.)

I can't believe the nudity that I saw back then is still engrained in my memory. 😂

[BigK]

Richard Hatch, who replaced Michael Douglas in the streets of Of San Francisco then most notably starred ln Battlestar Galactica.

 

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=f0da1ac9b7a45388&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS1204US1204&hl=en-US&sxsrf=APpeQntLrMipZnoP1Pj_b392Xmnw_Z6Glw:1790041150858&q=Richard+Hatch+actor&udm=2&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJmrj3hoGXAxWBnCYFHQVZIEMQnN8JKA96BAgWEBI&biw=1080&bih=672&dpr=2

Edited 15 hours ago by BigK

[Charlington]

This scene from the Spice World movie made me very curious sexually about men. I was prepubescent when the movie came out. Seeing the shirtless male dancers in their underwear, then later in their purple thongs was a gay awakening for me.
 

 

[BigK]

5 hours ago, BigK said:

Richard Hatch, who replaced Michael Douglas in the streets of Of San Francisco then most notably starred ln Battlestar Galactica.

 

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=f0da1ac9b7a45388&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS1204US1204&hl=en-US&sxsrf=APpeQntLrMipZnoP1Pj_b392Xmnw_Z6Glw:1790041150858&q=Richard+Hatch+actor&udm=2&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJmrj3hoGXAxWBnCYFHQVZIEMQnN8JKA96BAgWEBI&biw=1080&bih=672&dpr=2

[BigK]

The above photo is from his Streets Of San Francisco Days

[dutchal]

Jan-Michael Vincent