21 Twitter users name their first gay crush, real or otherwise – Queerty
You always remember your first, right?
We recently rounded up gay Reddit users’ first celebrity crushes, and now we’re switching up the search parameters and listing Twitter users’ first gay crushes. There’s some overlap, of course: Fans found Tom Welling to be a super man and Chris O’Donnell had viewers lusting after his Dick Grayson. But the rest of this list is all new.
And as we found out as we surveyed the Twitterverse, the late English actor Bob Hoskins gave a lot of gays their first stirrings.
“We watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit last night. It used to be one of my fave movies as a kid. I had a crush on Bob Hoskins as a lil’ 5-year-old gay,” one person tweeted last year. “As an adult, I realize now he is the archetype and original source for my love of frowny, hairy, kind-hearted detectives.”
“I wonder if Bob Hoskins knew half the gay community grew up with a crush on him,” someone else tweeted in 2014. “Either way… thanks, Bob.”
And a third Twitter user was thirsty for Bob back in 2012: “It’s always embarrassing explaining my crush on Bob Hoskins, but I know at least a bunch of burly gay men agree,” that user wrote.
(For the record, Queerty deemed Hoskins a “bear icon” waaaaay back in 2009.)
OK, on to the list!
Max from Hocus Pocus
Thackery Binx from Hocus Pocus, but in cat form
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Shira from the Ice Age movies
Merlin Santana
Merlin Santana was my first gay crush. pic.twitter.com/AUeA3z152a
— Low Dropper for Jesus (@Mr_Everythng) February 19, 2020
Tom Welling
Tinkerbell from Hook
Eris from Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Luke Smith from The Sarah Jane Adventures
Kristen Stewart
Goliath from Gargoyles
John Marshall Jones
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Robin from the Batman movies
my first gay crush, delivered to me my sexual awakening in a skin-tight body suit. i would watch this on the lowest volume, over & over in the basement. I WAS OBSESSED! pic.twitter.com/lo9skrqgnJ
— tyler oakley (parody) (@tyleroakley) June 22, 2020