Who among us didn’t have the hots for a character in film, TV, or video games at some point? After a Reddit user recently asked, “Which fictional character where you first attracted too? [sic]” a lot of gay and bi men chimed in with their former screen crushes. Some responses were relatable, and some were out of left field, but hey, we can’t judge anyone for the torches they carried as young, impressionable queers.
Here’s a roundup of some of the responses…
Aladdin
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The Empire Strikes Back iteration of Luke Skywalker
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Gaston from Beauty and the Beast
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Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender
“Zuko really woke up some new things in me,” the original Reddit poster said.
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Kaidan from Mass Effect
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Beast Boy from Teen Titans
“Yeeeessss,” another Redditor agreed.
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Johnny Bravo
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“All three main characters of Pirates of the Caribbean”
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Bronn from Game of Thrones
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The animated Wolverine
The fox Robin Hood
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Shang from Mulan
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Kid Flash from Teen Titans
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Captain Jack Harkness from Doctor Who
“Just damn,” raved one Reddit user.
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ingyaom
Albert Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie.
Donald Dork
I’m with you on this one
dean089
Oh, yes! And he’s aged well, too.
Skip
Albert!!! Yes!!! Those eyes, that smile, the hair! Undressed him in my mind a million times.
Did the same to Mike Seaver… but what a sad waste of a man Kirk Cameron has become! Talk about growing PAINS!
Archie
Jonny Quest – Race Bannon and the dad.
Max
totally.
SiamSean
Archie- Totally agree! Dr Benton Quest… the dad.
dean089
I had a thing for Hadji.
bill
Gawd when I was a kid about 10, I loved Race Bannon. I didn’t know why until I was older. I wonder if dad and him were a couple?
Gary Q VV
Really shows my age, but me too.
Archie
Col Klink from Hogan’s Heros.
iminheatlikeacat
Mine was…Scar from The Lion King lmao
stranger2myself
Yamcha from Dragon Ball Z
ModeI
I like The animated Wolverine
Jimmy T
Tim Considine as “Spin” in The Mickey Mouse Club series “Spin and Marty” in the 50’s. I was about 10 or 11 years old and had no idea what my feelings meant, but I knew I was somehow attracted physically to Spin and also the idea of the close friendship between the two boys.
Mack
And I thought Marty was hot.
MacAdvisor
Superboy, then Superman. Didn’t even know why I like them so much back then, but I thought the young Clark Kent would make the best best friend.
TimothyBeauchamp
Raised a few eyebrows when I humped the carpeted floor at six years old every time Batman and Robin was on television. I was rather jealous of Robin. I wanted to be Robin so that Batman would arrive with his bat mobile and take me away to his lair.
SoggyDuck
I’m with you, Timothy…was jealous of Robin, too! Loved the dungeon atmosphere that was in his basement…Wow.. what a role model!
Trueblood
For me it was the animated Tarzan (that loin cloth and his ripped body) and Aladdin (he was cute and had a great personality).
imperator
My very first crush was Keith from Voltron (though if I’d grown up ~30 yrs later with the Netflix iteration, it probably would have been more Shiro).
baggins435
I was born in ’61. My first crush was Jonny Quest, second was probably Ron Ely from Tarzan.
just me
grew up in the 60s… when i was 7 i had a crush on peter pan… then on Robin from Batman. 🙂
Billy Budd
Wasn’t there a hot Hercules character in one of Disney’s movies? When I started feeling attracted to guys, I never got hard for fictional characters.
Dyana B
One of many crushes I’ve had growing up was Marc Singer from Beastmaster, as well as Jan Michael Vincent from Baby Blue Marine and Rex Smith from Sooner or Later, and animated characters like Mightor, Space Ghost & Birdman…
bodie425
I spent a whole lot of time with Marc Singer, A Whole Lot!, in my mind. He did things to me that still make me shudder. LoL
I also had a crush on Skeletor from He-Man and Bow from She-Ra.
jmsper
If I recall, Marc Singer was bare chested for a number of scenes of Taming of the Shrew. It was so different for TV at the time, but that was incredibly hot. Also fondly remember Robert Conrad in the Wild Wild West and of course Johnny Quest!
Billy Budd
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crashstlmo
Raji on the tv show, Maya. OMG, Sajid Khan (who played Raji) always guaranteed a boner whenever he was on screen.
Donald Dork
Peter Brady
dean089
Totally!
MacAdvisor
Double totally. He is still hot, actually.
Paulie P
Grant Goodeve… google him….
Paulie P
Gregory Harrison……google him too
Bob LaBlah
Once again I am going to excuse the obvious age discrimination and give mine: Mighty Mouse.
dean089
Jack Wild’s character, Jimmy, on HR Pufnstuf.
myklstarr
Wally Cleaver, Beaver’s older brother.
bodie425
Me too. Also, the oldest son Robbie on “My Three Sons.”
Frank Lee Mideer
HE-MAN!
vesper60
Mark-son of Lucas McCain on The Rifleman or boy in the Tarzan tv show
Dwik27
Tom Sawyer from the New Adventures of Huck Finn – part real, part animated – TV series from the late 60’s and 70’s. I’d rush home in the afternoon from school just to catch it. ( I saw the repeats in the 1970’s).
Terrycloth
Peter Brady the Brady bunch…Johnny Crawford on the Rifleman…Bud on Donna Reed Show, Wally on.leave it to Beaver.Sandy on flipper… there were many more of course but those came quick off the top of my head
broadshoulder
I am British so mine was Peter Duncan from Blue Peter
RIGay
Oh, Honey! Jon Erik Hexum in “Voyagers!” and “Cover Up”! Hands down (and getting busy)!
Eddie Jr
Jay North in the movie Maya. We were the same age. My first look at a bare bottom in a movie.
Mars414
Captain Scarlet from the 60s British TV series. He was indestructible! Filmed in Supermarionation!
dannysax
When I was a young gay boy, I loved Luke Halpin, the blond cutie from Flipper, the young Kurt Russell from TV etc., and Johnny Crawford, who played Mark McCain, the Rifleman’s son.
prarie pup
Danny Zuko–aka John Travolta–in Grease. That thick, black, wavy hair and crystal-blue eyes….sighhhh. I was SOOO in love with him.
Franklin
Noah on All My Children. Whew lord! Those dreads and that body. I didn’t even know he was gay a few years ago. Also, Adebisi on Oz. Don’t judge me.
Toofie
YES, Noah on AMC! Keith Hamilton Cobb!
radiooutmike
Let’s see, now that I recognize them for what they are, I’ll tell mine.
1) Major Don West (Mark Goddard) from the original Lost In Space
2) Major Steve Austin (Lee Majors) from The Six Million Dollar Man
3) David Bradford (Grant Goodeve) from Eight Is Enough
David
Patrick Duffy in the “Man From Atlantis”…. .sigh. Or the late Jon-Erik Hexum in “Voyagers”.
Kernos
There’s been so many it’s hard to choose. Most recently #Stiles from Teen Wolf ?
Just the B
Eeeeeey I’m 100% with Beast Boy being such a big cartoon crush of mine 🙂 And ngl Robin Hood was pretty cute XD
But I also have a big thing for Spider-Man, Zac from Ferngully, and Y6 from Steven Universe is cute af 😛 Oh and Kristoff from Frozen was so attractive to me, and that’s just of the top of my head, I’m such a weirdo XD