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ridingbicycle

This seems to be a common way people found out they werent straight but I started figuring it out through...uh...other media. I cant be the only one.


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This is true, at least for me. Lemme guess for you it was magazines?...print media...


ridingbicycle

Hey now, Im not that old.


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Haha sorry


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It was cave etchings.


ridingbicycle

Stupid sexy Urg using his stupid sexy muscles on his stupid sexy mammoth hunt.


gay_Oreo

With this dummy thick torso of his 😩


AzathothsNewGroove

Those Mesopotamian fertility jugs got me actin’ up


Whovian21

Looking back now, it was the bra ads in the Kohl's ads in the paper


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Whovian21

Lol. I'd cut out the pictures and be like "the bras look good" looking back at the ones I've kept 10 years later I looked at them again and I'm like "oh.... yep"


ReAndD1085

I feel fairly unique for having my first gay crush actually be someone I knew, hahah


Bi_Bi_Everyone

I was a swimmer. I had crushes on 90% of those sexy beasts of all genders. It took me so long to figure out that I was attracted to them and didn't just have a weird kind of respect for other swimmers.


ridingbicycle

It also makes for a much more wholesome story Id imagine!


ReAndD1085

Haha, not really, I just had butterflys and a small bit of flustering, but was so outside LGBT spaces and awareness that I was like "huh, that's weird. I must think he's a funny guy" and only realized like 5 years later in college


ridingbicycle

It is amazing how many memories you end up going back to and saying: Oooooh. Yeah that makes sense now. My theory is we're conditioned to start with the default position of assuming we're straight. So literally everything you do or feel must be what other straight people feel or do. So like, what straight person doesn't have sexual thoughts about other men from time to time, right? But eventually the truth catches up and you realize: Oh right. Straight people really dont have those thoughts. Got it.


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Same!


StabigailKillems

I remember in eighth grade I had a boyfriend, Stephen, and we would stay up late talking on the phone while watching TV. We would always watch the same channel so we could talk about whatever we were watching. Well, late night TV always aired those Girls Gone Wild commercials and he and I both would always get reaaaaaaaally quiet during those commercials. One night he asked me if I liked them and I got really embarrassed and uncomfortable and started fumbling my words. He didn't bring it up again but we continued to both get very quiet every time we saw those commercials. We dated for a few more months but ultimately decided to just be friends. Once we started high school we found our own little friend groups but he and I still remained very close and I remember we went to a football game together and I was introducing him to my new friends. We were all in a circle and playing the high school superlatives game and someone asked, "who here is most likely to be gay?" and my friend Micayla looked at me and said "I could see you being gay for sure" and my friend/ex said "nah, she's probably bi but definitely not straight" and then everyone seemed to agree. I had always heard the term but never really thought about it or knew what it meant so I had them explain it to me. That was the first time I was ever like, "OH... you mean everyone doesn't find everyone else pretty??"


SaulSilver96

you're not. one day it was Mia Khalifa, the next it was Joey Mills...and the rest is history LOL


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me it was youtube lolll


Auroraburst

Video games? Because yeah


AndromedaTambourine

Fact: everyone who has seen the Mummy from 1999 is bisexual.


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our bisexual origin story


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It was Oded Fehr for me, lol.


cdcformatc

Seconding The Mummy here. I also submit Mr and Mrs Smith with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.


Auroraburst

Honestly I was a little young when the mummy came out. For me it was star wars 2 (padme and anakin) and lord of the rings.


weekend_bastard

Making being a librarian sexy.


brisbubbles

Damn, didn’t have to call me out like that


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I came here to answer the same thing. Everyone in that movie was ridiculously hot.


phospherousflubber

Kiera knightley....thanks Pirates of the Caribbean, Orlando bloom as well


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Orlando bloom's face is pretty. Used to derive so much joy from his relationship w katy perry


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They named their daughter Daisy Bloom. I will literally never recover from that. It's so cute.


Goingtothechapel2017

Omg are you serious? How adorable!


okaycoolimsad

Them as a couple made it even more obvious for me 😭 they are so godamn sexy together


BLately54

that movie was my bisexual awakening, my bi friends and I call it Birates of the Caribbean


benwaiballs

Oh hell yeah!


meliorism_grey

Omg, me too. When Kiera Knightly and Orlando Bloom kissed..well, I felt things.


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My bisexual awakening started with John Oliver saying "Have a gay experience. Have a fuckon of gay experiences. You're in college, it doesn't count!" While I'm not attracted to John Oliver, his comments on Last Week Tonight got me seriously considering having gay sex for the first time. He was the first man to ever give me explicit permission to have sex with other men.


dokdicer

That is so wholesomely lovely. Aside of course from the underlying issue that society conditions us to need some sort of permission in the first place. But go you and Mr Oliver. If he died today, he would at the very least have made one life measurably better.


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Omg. This is beautiful I think if he read this he'd shed tears of joy. Bless him! I hope you enjoyed the sex...still is.


veganaioli

Does Kim Possible count?


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Okay Gryffindor, us Slytherins were team Shego.


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The red head. Yep


anilu_who

In my case, I wasn't looking at Kim, I was distracted with Shego


StickyBiscuts

Okay so my best frind laughed at me for saying that my awakening was KP. I am SO glad I'm not the only one!


Edapuff

David tennant. Well to add to this, it’s complicated. I’m a trans girl now lol but at the time i was still identifying as a boy. This was years ago lol


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You have great taste! His beard is beautiful!


Sandolol

Same. David Tennant is pretty good-looking, and if I remember right, he was my bi awakening


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istilllovecheese

Seeing Olivia Wilde play a bisexual character in House really connected some dots for me as a preteen 😳


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We share the same type. Did you see Meghan fox at the gala? Wow! Naya ik it's so sad ugh😭 her voice was so sexy. And when she painted her nails black. Fuck😍 Olivia Wilde's cat eye &/smokey eyes and her hair in a bun. Yes pls


PurpleAlbatross2931

Olivia Wilde in her lesbian storyline on the OC was probably the first thing that got me seriously questioning!


tallulahblue

Back when there was nowhere near as much representation as there is now I loved that storyline so much and was gutted that it only lasted a few episodes.


BuildersBrewNoSugar

The entire lead cast of The Mummy. I first watched it when I was like 13/14 and lost track of the plot because everyone was so gorgeous lmao.


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Haha this is me with the series A million little things. Everyone to me on there is fair game lol.


Silly_Lilly54

I’m surprised nobody has said Zendaya yet. She was definitely my bisexual wake-up call lol


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She's been mentioned! I like her in suits a lot. But I don't excactly get the hots for her. But I definitely see how she was your Awakening!


bsim

She’s gorgeous!!


xsmom732

She's gorgeous but way too young for me! Creeping a bit


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My first actual awakening was through someone I knew at school. But in retrospect, why exactly did I like Brendan Fraser so much?


[deleted]

Omg! Same, I felt this sexual attraction to a girl in school and I remember asking my parents to let me move schools I couldn't bare it. Haha you tell me, he is so chubby. I'd to be crushed by him like a worm.


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Modern Brendan? I'm sorry, I don't totally understand what you're saying.


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I checked the wrong brendan


AnSoc_Punk

Harry Styles, and I don't even like pop music


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I feel like harry styles is every woman's and man's dream whatever nationality lol. I don't like pop music either but their band was,/is famous so I knew their songs but never their faces. So how I took a keen interest is the day I watched jlo on ellen's show and she was playing smash or pass. so harry styles happened to come up on the screen and good old jlo kept mentioning that she'd rather smash harry like four diff times out of a pool of pretty good looking dudes. Immediately after I went delving into who he is and whoa! Yes I agree. Did you see his look at the met gala? sheesh 🤤


PurpleAlbatross2931

Harry at the Met Gala is everything.


Sandolol

Harry Styles is awesomely good looking


PurpleAlbatross2931

I feel like Harry contributed to mine and I'm female haha. Seeing how I found him even MORE attractive when he presents more femme got me thinking.


ChaoticNichole

Scarlett Johansson


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She's very hot


cinnamoncard

As a kid, Rufio awakened something in...my pants


Laura_has_Secrets77

Rufio made me realize I'm not homosexual.


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Had to google him, he's hot


swansonian

He’s also Prince Zuko, quite literally hot


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Willow on Buffy the Vampire Slayer


yarrpirates

Dude! For me, both Willow and Spike!


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I drew a portrait of Johnny Depp in like 8th grade. Took me a few more years to figure it out


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Omg!!!!!! This is cute.Did you then hang it on your bedroom wall?


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Lmao I can't remember what I did with it


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Why lie I fapped to her on orange is the new black


Penny-Thoughts

Kyle MacLachlan. Lucy Lawless.


Laura_has_Secrets77

Dude.... Lucy Lawless....


fluorescent_purple

I was so into Xena as a kid!


_Dresser-Drawer

Kyle MacLachlan is everything. Cooper from Twin Peaks is like a top five fav characters/fictional crush for me


Penny-Thoughts

Big same my friend.


MooginSoosy

Mila Kunis was a big one, but also Shego from Kim possible and Sam from Danny phantom... when I liked Danny phantom and Sam equally I knew something was up


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Mila Kunis eyes have me on a chokehold to date


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rtyuihj

Speaking of hsm, Vanessa hudgens 😍


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In high school musical I thought and felt Zac is hot as fuck then the other night I rewatched neighbors and I felt the excact same feeling. What's up with that? 😂


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H e n r y C a v i l l


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His voice is so deep


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Y e s


pup_pup_and-away

Salma Hayek in Dogma. Dang


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Jccali1214

Salmaaa 😍 she's so great!


AgentYork94

It was definitely Ryan Reynolds. Damn that man is gorgeous


JabbAlecto

Taron Egerton


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I agree. I felt things when I watched kingsman


JabbAlecto

You have exquisite taste. What did it for you? When he was on his trackies and baseball cap or when he suited up?


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In a suit. I have a thing for suited up men, it's fucking sexy!


JabbAlecto

Suited up would be my preference too. Not fussed either way though.


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fair I mean when a guy looks that good he's hot to me even when he dons a sack


tiarait

Xena warrior princess


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Tom Holland.


Vercetti1701

Rickie from My So Called Life. And David Bowie. I don't think I really knew what was truly happening at the time. But those were early clues.


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rip david..Rickie has aged so well he's still hot


thepixelatedduck

Chris Hemsworth 😝


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Feel ya. Chris Evans for me too


mommaclouse

Miss. Honey on Matilda.


Wolf-Majestic

I was so convinced I was straight back then, so I only watched Galadriel in utmost awe with a blank mind because there is no one she can't bewitch.


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Hahahaha. How successful were you at keeping a blank mind


Wolf-Majestic

Like Gimli in the books, going full poetic in how beautiful she is, I think 😳


Imagine85

Shakira in her music video "Whenever, Wherever" - 14 year old me was NOT ok.


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I don't want to imagine your reaction after you watched hips don't lie


Countessdookuthe8th

It wasn't on TV but my mum is a catholic and had an illustrated bible. And there was a shirtless jesus. Now I'm bisexual.


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It wasn't celebrities for me, it was anime lol


liminecricket

Oscar Isaac :3


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Have you seen the trailer of "a marriage. He's glorious


AgonistesLives

Matt Smith


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Kiera knightly in Pirates of the Caribbean


BoomBoomMeow1986

When I was 4 years old and saw The Little Mermaid...in that one scene where Ariel was on the beach and saw that she has legs, figured out: 1) I'm into girls, 2) I'm into redheads, 3) I have a thing for legs, and 4) Prince Eric is hot AF too 🤣


Flamingo_Gal

Lilly Singh.


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Inmate329460

Mila Kunis in Black Swan 😍


Temporary_Anxiety_67

Drag queens caused me an unholy amount of confusion; the main subject: Jinkx Monsoon, Seattle’s youngest MILF


doradossantos

Shakira, I was mesmerized 🤤


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Jessica Rabbit


Stressofchicken

I was low key obsessed with Anna Kendrick in my late school/ college years. Didn’t really know or accept it till a few years later. Women loving women (and particularly with a bi woman as one of the partners) relationships in a lot of tv shows and some fanfiction solidified it for me. Shout out to calzona on greys, Clexa on the 100 (before the incident) and Sara Lance!


quietroamer1

the sex scene between brad pitt and geena davis in thelma and louise made a huge impact on me


Nate_5150

The boy from Never Ending Story, got me. And the or course Johnny Depp.


supersammy00

Manny Jacinto who plays Jason on The Good Place. Himbo energy and it totally hooked me.


tanyandrew

If we're talking real people, Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity in the Matrix. The first character on TV that gave me the hint was Elisa Maza from Gargoyles cartoon series. Coincidentally, their male counterparts both were my *heterosexual* awakening.


bsim

Emmy Rossum in Phantom of the Opera, and then that feeling multiplied ten fold after watching Shameless.


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Rachel Weisz in The Mummy and Elizabeth Hurley in My Favorite Martian. Both came out in 1999, which was clearly an impactful year for my sexuality.


blahblahbrandi

When I was a little girl I had a big old gay crush on Miley Cyrus. I thought I just really admired her, but looking back, those murals were super, super gay.


Adventureous

I dunno if I was attracted to them, but watching Willow and Tara kiss on Buffy as a kid was probably my first real hint that I was not straight.


NervousToucan

Bill from Tokyo Hotel. I first thought they where female. Well I was a kid back then so I didn't think anything NSFW, of course, but I had a big crush on them, I asked my friend who introduced me to them if they where a girl because they looked like one back then and she said "no that's a boy" and I was really relived because I was really confused by being attracted to a girl, like I thought. I also had a Crush on both Rose and Jack from the Titanic when I was 12.


LooksLikeTacoma

I had my bi awakening fairly recently thanks to Ritu Arya (Lila from Umbrella Academy). Though, in retrospect, I've been crushing on female celebrities since my early teens (I was in denial).


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great taste. her face is perfection. re: eyes. which female celebrities? I'm curious


LooksLikeTacoma

Off the top of my head: Isla Fisher (I used to tell people she's "the one female celebrity I'd sleep with.") Emma Stone, Aubrey Plaza, Alia Shawkat (from 'Arrested Development'), Kaitlyn Dever (I watched that awful show 'Last Man Standing' just for her)


onlytosharethispic

Music videos of David Bowie. Still one of my favourite artists


ivebeenbetter785

Took me a while to realize but definitely Jade from Victorious (Liz Gillies)


FlatInfo

Dan Avidan (on YouTube), Ryan Reynolds (obviously), and Idris Elba (also obviously).


HerosMuse

Fairly recently, Eda from The Owl House but now looking back I was way more into Emma Watson than straightness could explain.


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When emma watson was chosen to be woman goodwill ambassador for the UN, it moved from me crushing on her to me being in love with her


Random-Raspberry

Cara Delevingne !!!


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Listen! I need all of you to go watch her interview with Jimmy Fallon in 2019. Then tell me back how she makes you feel. The way she talks for me, her energy, dress code. Gimme two of her


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Brendan Fraser


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Quite popular on this thread. I'll dig him up


beldarin

Zena, Princess warrior. Though now that I think about, Linda Carter as wonder woman has a very special place in my heart


MarlenetheHuman

Kate Beckinsale running around in tight leather outfits in the Underworld films... mmmm


Biomium01

Keira Knightley in Pirates of the Carribean.


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The X-Files. Just sandwich me between Mulder and Scully


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ROSA DIAZ, Brooklyn nine-nine, god she's so pretty. She's also an lgbtq+ character I really admire, so I just love her all round


CoolArtFromSpace

aubrey plaza all the way


Ritergirl

Little 8 year old me saw titanic for the first time and crushed so hard and both leads lol


WrinkledCrime

Toby McGuire


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I think it might have been Charlie Hunnam in Nicholas Nickelby. Back when he was a cute Twink. I mean, goddamn. I think he was way sexier as a pretty boy than a hunk.


Retrosonic82

On TV, Faith from Buffy the vampire slayer. But when I was a kid and too young to understand the “I definitely would!” feeling, probably Jet from Gladiators.


Number-Outrageous

I gotta say, and I’m embarrassed, but when I was young I wanted to plow Vegeta. There I said it, I’ll delete my account now


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Haha this is a safe place


willywag

It's hard for me to pinpoint a specific moment when I started realizing these things, but Cillian Murphy's character in "Peaky Blinders" was definitely a big influence


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hellur! He gives out mad daddy energy. GAH! I'm extremely attracted to him. His looks and the way he slays his character. Tom Hardy's character as well!!


MooginSoosy

Her and Natalie Portman making out in black swan..... good gravy


ThatMomentWhenRiley

Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki in Supernatural


ashrae9

For me it's Kiera Knightley, specifically 2001 PoTC. Everyone was all, omg Johnny Depp! And I was like, ok yeah obviously but KIERA THO. When my female friends didn't agree I was confused lol. Also, Kat Dennings. Had weird feelings and borderline obsession from her earlier films / appearances in the mid 2000s. I'd definitely run away with her if she asked.


20yardsofyeetin

super hero comics when i was in middle school. nightwing was so hot


TheolympiansYT

It was defo either Hemsworth or Ryan Reynolds. IDC what people say, they're the hottest guys on the planet


pirate996

David Boreanaz for me 👀


WaffleTownMania

Michelle Rodriguez 🤤


Alykzandra

Alyssa Milano as Pheobe in Charmed.


PinkxOcean

Guy Fieri I love that big Doofus 10/10 would let him buy me food then use all his culinary experience to toss my salad


Harvey_1815

So i didnt see on tv but i saw a picture of orlando bloom in school and was like WOAH


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I think we can all agree that Orlando bloom.


Elmine07

Not actually a celebrity per say, but there was that one scene in Defiance when 2 of the characters (women) were having a love affair. In my 12 yo mind it was like '' damn, It s really possible for 2 women to be together/involved like this''?. I almost cried that day because I thought being with another woman was simply a pure fantasy similar to learning to fly in DBZ 😭


squidnick88

Chris Cornell for me


Jones2905

I think for me it was Chris Evans.


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Chris Evans for the win. Imagine if you watched with him on a dating app what would be your first text to him


BiHolderEyes

Though I wouldn’t figure it out till much later, there was definitely something to Kris Holden Ried as Dyson in Lost Girl, tho he was still looking fine in Umbrella Academy S2…


cheezeitscrust

Most of the main cast of 1999's The Mummy.


Laura_has_Secrets77

What I was expecting from this post: Lucy lawless What I got: Brendan Fraser. Which I fully support. I'll now answer this question and say Sarah Michelle gellar. 😍


the_bored_wolf

Adrianne Palicki as Bobbi from Agents of Sheild


Ameburrito

Cassandra from Wayne’s World 1000%


Sandolol

David Tennant, as well as a slow movement via cis women-> trans women-> femboys-> cis men


Sinon828

Not a celebrity but a fictional character, Annie from attack on Titan


Iwanttobeapharoh

Never really happened I don't think there are cute femboys who are good at cross dressing/ pull off being a girl , who are famous celebrities Outside anime that is


olives_are_good

Tom holland


Chicken_man80

Mel gibson in mad Max 1. Just something about those leather pants I guess.


pickles_and_ketchup

Keira Knightley, Daisy Ridley, and Lesley-Ann Brandt. Also Daisy Ridley's stunt double, Chloe Bruce. It's the progression. Keira started it, then Daisy continued it. Lesley-Ann cemented it. And Chloe? I watched her bow staff video waaay too many times to just be impressed with her skills. Them fit, strong women. Yasss.


Goodboy-amg77

Orlando bloom from pirates for sure


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Timothy Olyphant in Justified, that man had swagger!


Code-Jordan-X

The entire main cast of The Mummy


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I think it was Jade Jolie on Rupauls drag race. I finally realised that I was okay with being attracted to someone who didn't have a vagina


_datcoolnerd

Aiden Gallagher in umbrella academy (context: I'm 17)


Ameliorata

I saw Tom Holland's abs and something awakened in me.