What in your childhood turned you gay?

[Tektonik]

I blame Goldust http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5osWjdtAM0&feature=related

[YankeyMCC]

1. The old Batman TV show

http://www.robintheboywonder.com/robinincolor_4.html

Oh wait, I'm not gay. :shrug:

[QueenOfCalifornia]

2. Being trapped

in a hut with The Skipper.... :)

[Betty88]

3. Wonder woman and pixie hair cuts... nt.

[littlebit]

11. Me too!

I had a major crush on Wonder Woman.

[lightningandsnow]

4. Someone gave me a rainbow belt for my 10th birthday.

It's one of those stretchy elastic ones, so I still wear it from time to time.

[Chovexani]

5. Counselor Troi.

I had the biggest crush on her when I was 12.

[Deep13]

8. It was unfair to expect you to resist with that kind of a lure. nt

[Chovexani]

12. I KNOW

How can any little girl grow up to be straight watching her week after week?!

And don't get me started on Mirror Mirror-verse Uhura and her Abs of Doom, on original recipe Trek. I had no chance.

[DarkTirade]

32. What about mirror-verse T'Pol and Hoshi?

I preferred the men in the regular-verse Enterprise, but I gotta say, T'Pol with long hair, and Hoshi bein' all... well, however she was. Damn.

[Chovexani]

43. You're referring to that weird Trek show people keep insisting was on TV again

Aren't you? :P

[DarkTirade]

47. I actually enjoyed it.

Although it might be more because the cast was frikkin' hot than anything else. :P

[Chovexani]

53. I knew you were a freak

:P

I didn't really find anyone on that show hot. The few times I forced myself to try to watch it I mostly wanted to smack everyone.

[DarkTirade]

59. I, on the other hand, found pretty much all of the main cast except for Malcolm and the Doctor hot.

And each for completely different reasons. :P

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

6. Don't you mean "when did you CHOOSE to be gay?

You know that's what Palin and her cult thinks.:puke:

[SacredCow]

7. These guys, probably....

[Sebastian Doyle]

55. Bert & Ernie: Indoctrinating children into the homosexual agenda since 1969

It's really too bad about the ugly breakup, but Kermit was there for Ernie.....

[TommyO]

9. Batman, Bewitched, and various westerns

Of course, it could just have been the fact that I was born gay, the shows just explain my, um, er, "interests"

[Sequoia]

15. Bewitched?

How so?

[TommyO]

18. The analogy of witches having to hide their true selves

was offensive to me, even when I was a kid.

[Sequoia]

20. Oh of course.

And her husband forbidding her to use witchcraft to solve a problem. And then there's Rudolph The Red-Nose Reindeer and Hermie who couldn't be themselves either and had to run away and hide. When I was a kid and found out Rock Hudson was gay I was sort of sad (I was only 11 years old..what did I know of birds and bees?) but when I found out his love interest was Gomer Pyle I was shocked. That stupid oaff?! Anyone but him I thought. Anyway, to this day I somethings wish I had Samatha's powers. Just snap my fingers and bam...my house is clean and dinner on the table.

[TommyO]

30. Well, Darren (both incarnations) was an asshole

You have an incredibly talented spouse and you forbid her from being herself. How wonderfully narrow-minded. Of course, Samantha wasn't much better, she was the beset upon spouse who submitted, almost mindlessly, to her husband.

[Sequoia]

42. You got that right.

One day my husband pointed out to me about how mean Darren was and yes, they both were jerks. Back in those days women were still "expected to obey" their husbands and you can bet that holds true today for those Southern Baptists. Around 8 years ago I was with my siblings when the youngest said she guessed she'd have to obey her husband because the church has just come out with a statement saying as such. Before they got all fundie on us they were fun to be around and shared equally in decisions. I defy men all the time who think they can boss me around, even at work since this area doesn't like uppity women.

[Deep13]

10. I think it was It's Raining Men.

I was an early teenager when that was on the radio. Yup, that was it. Next stop: Judy Garland.

[KamaAina]

13. I would say it was when Mom got me a kitten

then named her Elizabeth, no less.

Thank the FSM her friend had a bull terrier. The Kittzer turned me straight again! :sarcasm:

[Iggo]

14. Lou Reed.

How was I supposed to know what "Take A Walk On The Wild Side" meant? I was just little!

[DarkTirade]

34. Yeah, I never actually listened to the words to that one until I was older...

then all of a sudden it was like wow... that's not what I thought it was about. :P

[Iggo]

35. I know, right?

I remember I felt all subversive for singing "...and the colored girls go doot, doo-doot..."

But I was well into my twenties before I actually sat and listened to that song. Weird...

[DarkTirade]

60. Actually, what made me stop and listen to the lyrics

was the fact that it was referenced in Hedwig and the Angry Inch as part of the main character's growing up gay and learning about music at the same time. :)

[Glorfindel]

16. Tony Dow....

I just couldn't help myself.

[terrya]

22. Same here.

Damn, Tony Dow was HOT.

[cordelia]

24. Ditto that. n/t

[bigwillq]

17. Watching Yo! MTV Raps.

First time I saw LL Cool J shirtless, I knew I liked men!! :evilgrin: :) :P :hi:

[NNadir]

19. Sarah Palin.

It happened just last week. I guess I'll have to tell my wife and kids.

[WinkyDink]

21. Peter Pan.

[racaulk]

23. Xanadu

That's right, I went there. :evilgrin:

[Chovexani]

44. Well

Xanadu IS pretty gay. Greek muses and roller disco? Olivia Newton-John? Come on, now. :D

I think it turned me into a connoisseur of cheez and prepared me for a lifetime of MSTie-dom.

[undeterred]

25. My barbie doll's breasts had no nipples.

I am scarred for life. But I'm not gay.

[petronius]

26. Nothing turned me gay - I chose to be straight

Basically, I sat down one day and made a list of my options, then carefully weighed up the pros and cons of each choice. After extensive rational thinking, I decided to be straight...

:silly:

[KG]

27. i dunno, i was a always a happy-go-lucky kid....

[SammyWinstonJack]

28. "turned gay" That isn't possible is it?

:shrug:

[leeroysphitz]

29. For me it was the Gay "Recruiters".

You know, the roving bands of subversive homosexuals that stake out public rest rooms and wooded areas trying to spread their evil sickness by "tricking" young men into succumbing to their deviant lifestyle.

And NO they didn't always wear trench coats and have white knuckles...

[wickerwoman]

31. David Bowie in Labyrinth.

It wore off though :-(

[DarkTirade]

33. Mostly these two at first.

What can I say, I'm a sucker for a pretty face. Gender's no boundry for that. :P

[Chovexani]

45. Y HULLO THAR, TOM WELLING

He and Michael Rosenbaum reaffirmed my love for slash. Daily. Hell, Clark/Lex gay was the only reason I even watched Smallville, when they took out the gay all was left was Dawson's Creek with plots ripped off from Buffy.

...and Orlando Bloom, seriously, what more needs to be said. Equally hot as the Maybelline Elf and rugged Captain of the Flying Dutchman (zomg spoilars), despite looking completely different. Did you ever see his first credited role? He was a rent boy in Wilde. No, really. :D

That's just an awesome movie period, Stephen Rea and Jude Law were quite yummy. I always run it as a double feature of Period Gay with Tipping the Velvet.

[DarkTirade]

48. Never saw Wilde.

I'll have to check it out. :)

[Chovexani]

54. It's a really good movie.

Aside from the copious amounts of pretty.

[DarkTirade]

58. Two good reasons to see it then.

:P

[Critters2]

36. I was raised in a damn liberal church. Just not threatened with hell enough! nt

[elshiva]

37. They made me bisexual.

[Iggo]

38. Aw, the Buffster. (n/t)

[elshiva]

40. You rang?

I loved when Xander called her "the Buffster." I still love Xander.

[Chovexani]

46. And my obligatory

Mmm, Giles. And Anya. And Spike. But you are missing one crucial bit of Hawt from that photo:



I dare any woman not to be gay for Faith.

[DarkTirade]

51. Hell, I'm gay for Faith and I'm a dude.

Does that even work? :P

[Chovexani]

52. Everybody's gay for Faith

It's like how everyone's gay for Master Chief. Or Big Boss. :D

[DarkTirade]

50. Yeah, right when I finally admitted to myself that I was bi was when

my ex got me into Buffy. :P

[Lil Missy]

39. I think it's because of a lesbian nurse when I had a tonsillectomy. I "caught" it from her.

It IS contagious ya know. :)

[6000eliot]

41. The Monkees on TV!

[begin_within]

49. Sajid Khan, Alejandro Rey, Bill Bixby, Jan-Michael Vincent, Tony Dow

[billyskank]

56. Irradiated chicken.

[last_texas_dem]

57. Well, I ended up straight, but I guess the strongest force pushing me towards

catching "the gay" was that my favorite character on my favorite show as a five- and six-year old, He-Man (which, according to some VH-1 sources allegedly had a strongly gay subtext in itself. haha) was "The Sorceress."



Hey, she was awesome. Looking back, though, I just figured it would be considered "gay" for a guy who to have a female character as his favorite on a show with a total of three female characters and, like, a hundred males. However, one of my best friends, who is gay, told me that, "Liking The Sorceress doesn't make you gay. Liking Jem and the Holograms {one of his favorite shows from childhood} does." And I guess he kind of has a point. haha

[noonwitch]

61. I'm not gay, but I think football makes men gay

All that piling on each other, touching each other's butts. It's so gay.

[DarkTirade]

62. That, and really... guys wearing big shoulderpads?

That's both gay AND 80s right there.

[madinmaryland]

63. Get Smart.

:shrug: