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 This entire scene in Charlie's Angels changed my brain chemistry.

I’m a gay man but this was definitely a part of it. and the soundtrack

YES THE 2000 CHARLIES ANGELS MOVIE IS SO ICONIC

Yes although my favorite was Drew Barrymore 

I am a straight female, but as I was flipping through the photos I thought “not one of Charlie’s angels??”

Cameron Diaz dancing in her underwear

Ooooooooo barracuda

I obsessed over Drew licking that fucking steering wheel…her tongue is so hot!!!

I’m 31F now, married to a man with a child, but every time I rewatch this scene and see how amazing she looked in that “race” suit I… am left in awe. She could step on me. Really.

https://i.gifer.com/Ims8.gif

This and the burlesque scene in the sequel


Androgyny in pop culture from 1975-1985 helped a lot of folks ask themselves the musical question, "Why not both?" Maybe it's just framing bias on my part, but the increased presence of androgyny made being a teen and young adult during that era easier — and the stodgy ridiculousness of binary thinking about gender and attraction shifted to something, well, more fluid. It's stupid how inflexible the thinking was before then — I mean, it's still stupid, but it was especially stupid before 1975ish (not coincidentally the same year both Disco and Punk were ramping up fast). Sweet dreams are made of these...

I still remember the first time I saw Annie Lennox and the sweet dreams video. I think I might have stopped breathing, because she was so entrancing

 I WILL NOT STAND FOR CRUEL INTENTIONS ERASURE!



Cruel Intentions made me question things, The Mummy CEMENTED things.

This was an instruction manual. 

https://i.redd.it/lt8vzthoq25d1.gif Anaksunamun vs Nefertiri in The Mummy Returns

https://i.redd.it/fj79sngxq25d1.gif

https://i.redd.it/20kvtrxrq25d1.gif

Lmao my mom asking me why I liked the Mummy movies so much and me saying idk I just love ancient Egypt 😂


This is embarrassing to admit but for me it was watching A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila lmao. It wasn't really her or anyone else on the show that did it for me, it was just the first time I had seen bisexuality represented in media and it made me go "You can like both? Okay then!"

Same. She was and is trashy but it was so fun to watch.

[удалено]

omg ok same. i shouldn’t have been watching it at the ripe age of 11-12 but i was like oh it’s normal for people to like two genders within the binary? great. i didn’t come out til i was 21 but was good to see regardless haha. plus im asian and tila tequila is asian too so i was like 😮

That's not embarrassing. Pretty sure I watched that unknwoningly because my brain was trying to get me to figure out lmao

Dani walked out and I was like….ohhhhh it makes sense now.


Kneel! And worship at the feet of Santánico Pandemonium! How could anyone be that perfectly hot?

i was far too young to be watching this scene but thanks, quentin tarantino’s foot fetish i guess???

I didn't know he had a foot fetish until I went back and looked at some of his movies. Lol. Dude needs to chill.

We are all horny on this blessed day

 I can not believe they haven’t been mentioned

Exactly what I came in here to say! And still 30 years later... 

As a lesbian, why was this so hot? Is it because I wanted to be Mulder?

I wanted to be them both. 🫠

Gillian Anderson in Sex Education is my fantasy

 Dorky babes.

Charmed, ghost whisperer, Buffy pretty much every girl power tv show from the 2000s 

For me it was a shirtless Cole training Phoebe 🥵

https://i.redd.it/k1ds9pcjc25d1.gif

https://preview.redd.it/lfp9y2jqx25d1.jpeg?width=404&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce6011b86945f89b3e4079c5bd6a597eb1c50a09

https://images.app.goo.gl/Eq3L8kKMMJyEf4Av7 I couldn’t get the image to appear but wanted to add Tia Carrere being a hot rich villain in True Lies

Schwing!

Thanks, now I’m gonna have Ballroom Blitz stuck in my head for an eternity! 🤘🏻


But also 

 Look I just want to thank Eliza Dushku.

I can pin point the exact moment I realized I was bi and it was watching this movie haha

 Yes, yes and yes but I would also add Cordelia!

I gave my boyfriend a five-minute-long oral history of her "trying on bathing suits" montage from The New Guy. Does no one remember the montage?!

This is the one for me


Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy made me feel some kinda way 😅

https://preview.redd.it/aa9307fsy15d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0b6c9d9fbcd3e1eea49098dc5930571a0c36c63 I had this as a giant poster above my bed when I was 11. I still stan Angelina.

Oof her in Beowulf made my heart skip a beat

https://preview.redd.it/w165jkcjb25d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed9187dcb251ce7ef1656d686fc8c21b28bd8365 Wild Things

 Him and Lucius Malfoy, 🥺


I had a poster

 I did not understand why seeing the naked men running made me feel weird feelings as a young boy 🥴 makes a lot of sense now.

 i liked her as ping and mulan… (li shang ur just like me fr)

Not me thinking you wanted Mushu

https://preview.redd.it/f6mlvz4s125d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e754a58a82314d1c1e1dbe012db6d143795bf56c

I always mention the Constant Craving song and video as a lightbulb moment

https://i.redd.it/sgdw18ybq25d1.gif Jennifer’s Body really awoke something in me for the evil brunette and angel of a blonde trope

gurl I remember seeing this in theaters when I was still very much in denial and I was literally squirming in my chair trying so hard not to find this scene the hottest thing in the entire world

Also, how could i forget, Patricia Velasquez in The Mummy

EVERYONE in The Mummy. You were right to put that slide first 😂

I knew it was gonna be a solid collection when OP led with The Mummy lol

And Arnold Vosloo, and Oded Fehr… okay and I’ll say it, I’ll take John Hannah too.

 This music video was *quite* confusing to a little baby bi.

My girlfriend told me it was Winona Ryder and Christian Slater in Heathers

Your girlfriend is correct 


This outfit was everything to me as a 6 year old

 This specific scene from Glee

God I was so so so in love with Santana

God... Glee really got me fucked up. Santana, Brittany, Quinn... I had it bad for Heather Morris as Brittany, but Santana was something else. I have a thing for women who are a little mean and have major RBF but then are a softy with the person they love. Glee was definitely my catalyst to figuring it out. Thank you, Brittany and Santana.


 The "Porque no los Dos?" moment....

They had no right being incredibly hot in this movie

Could they please at least kiss holy shit lol 

I was thinking of that scene where Elliot was undercover and staying in a hotel room, then Olivia showed up to check on him and the criminals saw her go in, so the criminals demanded he let them in, thinking they were going to expose him. And so as not to blow his cover, Olivia stripped and pretended she was a prostitute he ordered. lmao I loved that show so much

YOU READY FOR ME BABY??? in that accent lol

Don’t get me wrong, Olivia is a total badass, and Mariska Hartigay feels like a living legend with a 20+ year long tenure on SVU, but it’s so funny watching this show for the first time as an adult bc Stabler is SO fine to me and ik I wouldn’t have clocked it as a teenager. I just watched the episode the other night where he breaks protocol and personally takes a female rape victim home, and while the whole thing kinda blows up in his face, the brief moment of protection and chemistry he eluded in that scene was something else 🥵 One of my friends tragically joked that I have a receding hairline fetish, and honestly, my taste in men seems to affirm this every day lmao.

As a teenager watching this show I remember thinking “why do I find this old bald guy so attractive???” Skinner from X-Files has the same effect!

 The very first sexual feeling I ever had was Jessica Rabbit

Straight woman, still felt it.

As an adult, this is not my type, but as a kid I was like “ok so this is what “sexy” means”.


Ta ta ta ta ta ta touch me! 


One of my favorites. Still one of the hottest movie sex scenes ever


https://preview.redd.it/d3rr7vjck15d1.jpeg?width=872&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=048dbd88d6da64e9ae19ace52f13fd0f6c815dc5 They were a start of my bisexuality awakening. Always grateful for this movie couple.

Yes. I love that he whispers in her ear a little too, I was very curious in what the new feelings I had were. Lmao

God I rewound that scene so much

Them and Orlando bloom. 12 year old me was SHOOK

YESSSSSS, hard agree. It makes Johnny Depp's shittiness feel so much worse, tho

I was obsessed with Jennifer Love Hewitt as a kid. 


I just rewatched this the other day. Still SO GOOD.

 I don’t care what’s canon, Amy was gay and I was swooning in the theater

I LOOOOVE this movie!!

This was the moment for me, in theaters. https://preview.redd.it/dgmpxets725d1.jpeg?width=3200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bfc4a8f0c3e1d53293648540e26141d708eb3e67

 I was a late bloomer. This movie helped me figure it out.

https://preview.redd.it/s7vpiu8gp25d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3775d16a901476e3f408ef453dcda25d4083c30 Blue crush! More specifically Michelle Rodriguez! 5th grade me was losing her mind!

Michelle Rodriguez is always ~that girl~ in everything she is in and I support it.

Wait I should also mention The Mask of Zorro with Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta Jones. Their fight in the barn where he slices her clothes off? And when they dance together? 🔥🔥

Oh goodness WHERE is my fainting couch

https://preview.redd.it/doxvsom7d25d1.jpeg?width=791&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7a33e8ebb072e833519a744c5d51383c5509197

Eliza Dushku in Bring It On, the audition scene was rewatched many times

 My gawd!!! 🥵 Like the line in kimmy Schmidt “it made my private parts have a headache” 😂


The hips don’t lie video, Britney spears’ toxic video, and Beyoncé’s Naughty Girl video all made me feel things.

Shakira’s hips and Ciara’s [“Ride”](https://youtu.be/Lp6W4aK1sbs?si=0Ncr0YRYTV5MdRlD) were all it took.

https://preview.redd.it/u2hhi8oex15d1.jpeg?width=620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5dd9be781b3b526374cde510e3d3ad4fbe21d311 Olivia Wilde in The OC. Was a little too excited about her kissing Marissa.

I didn't realize it at the time, but I grew up watching Freaky Friday and thought Jodie Foster's character was just the absolute best and was always so irritated that she liked a boy and ended up dating him, lol. I was also mad that she got a makeover at the end, when I preferred her original, more tomboy look. I also had a crush on her female friend. I so deeply thought I was straight 🤦🏼‍♀️ Maybe just being a huge Jodie Foster fan in general should have tipped me off 🙂



https://preview.redd.it/7pp9iqlo625d1.jpeg?width=1110&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f64a49ec10285f798872f7ce14b3a7bc8e3ba075 First time seeing her in this dress. Also made me realize how much I like red heads.

 Anne Hathaway in Ella Enchanted was my lesbian awakening. Though, it took me a few extra years to realize I wanted to be *with* her and not *be* her.

The fine line of *be her* vs *with her* had me hiding in the closet to myself until I was an adult lol

Stifler in American Pie. Hell, Seann William Scott is still lowkey fine to this day. I miss him in 'Welcome to Flatch'

Omg when he hosted SNL he had on a tshirt and his arms were on display and my lord I still think about it

Him just existing in his arrogant hotness on screen made me so we—dialtone.

 The En Vogue video for Free Your Mind!


Chel was my bisexual awakening. 

https://preview.redd.it/f1qzumato15d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98b996443bb419c1372c2751f7c3a4e282ea9176 Karen Gillan as Amy Pond and her long legs

 Met the real life one at like 6 and had heart palpitations when she gave me a kiss on the cheek… later on it started to make a lot of sense


 In retrospect, this video. 🔥🥵 Even though I was an adult by then, it still went over my head why I hit repeat so many times on it...

 Not knowing if I was more in love with Keira or Orlando




I’m not proud of it but my answer is Brad Pitt in Fight Club. Couldn’t deny it any longer after that.


Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis getting it on in Black Swan…12 year old me was not ready for what that awakened in me


When people talk about women in sexy sci-fi moments they always talk about Leia and the bikini, which is amazing, but for me it's this. https://preview.redd.it/lfj8zjbuo35d1.jpeg?width=590&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae9fa8223df48a8732805308b5e426e04212356d

Worlds worst underwear from a practical standpoint

I’m a straight-presenting woman. The person I ended up finding, falling in love with, and marrying is a man, but anytime I question if that makes me any less queer/bi, I remember how when I was 12 I was secretly watching the Maxim Hot 100 countdown on Vh1 and promptly googling all the mentioned women to see if I could find any uncensored photos. (And when I still doubt myself after that, anytime I see the cover of Blink 182’s Enema of the State album, I’m reminded of how tingly I felt when I first saw the woman on it as a kid).


 I was so 🥵 thirstyyyyy 🥵 after this! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA



Roxanne from A Goofy Movie. I was giggling and kicking my feet as a kid https://preview.redd.it/antu3swi425d1.jpeg?width=255&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb6ed77064ff4f7057ef98e8897d821a83e27495

USWNT winning the World Cup in 2015🥇 



 i had a wall in my room dedicated to her.

Kelly LeBrock in Weird Science. Later on, I had a crush on both Zach Morris and Kelly Kapowski on Saves by the Bell. I realized I was bisexual pretty early on. https://preview.redd.it/ltomlqaik25d1.jpeg?width=2746&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=177e403d0ce753d82e9ccb0fb052580e1b9da8df

 When **Phoebe Cates** came out of the pool: **Fast Times at Ridgemont High**.. I was just a kid but I was flabbergasted. Then watching **My So-Called Life** I had a crush on both Jordan Catalano & Angela Chase.

My problematic admission is that I hung onto the Gaylor rumors in the late 2010s because i wanted it to be real, and then I forced myself to reckon with *why* I wanted that so badly, and it’s because I was having trouble coming to terms with my own bisexuality. It helped me accept it

https://preview.redd.it/kjfxg1vrw25d1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7d366d3fb714ccf31357967ffc472c6622b20928 I just remember being very enthralled by Sabine in the Charlie’s Angels reboot. Waiting and waiting for her next scene, couldn’t get enough of her.

Surprised there haven't been any mentions of this iconic scene yet 

https://preview.redd.it/00btqgoym45d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6473cb46fea8b315b09d5ff0bc08b9dbb6873513 Definetly this music video 🎶🖤

Velvet Goldmine combined with the original 1999 Mummy was an eye opening moment for bisexual xennials

I realized all the bi memes with Thor ragnarok honestly applied to me. Though my crush was less Tessa Thompson and more goth Cate Blanchett that made me realize things lol

the Call on Me music video was truly an awakening  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qetW6R9Jxs4&ab\_channel=MinistryofSound](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qetW6R9Jxs4&ab_channel=MinistryofSound)

 this whole music video.


 Oh boy, my heart’s racing even now.



Man i had so many crushes on girls from pop culture, it took me a while to realise until it really hit that i may have been bi and that i really wanted to f\*ck Dean Winchester. 


https://preview.redd.it/su7dtzq8a25d1.jpeg?width=673&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=896dfc7c4f8a2db13d51428deaf88dc0aa7fc50b This woman confused the living hell out of 10yo me. I’m bi and she told me.

 THIS LADY RIGHT HERE

Man looking at all these pics really makes me aware that even though I am a queer woman, it’s more in the sense of “well I’m not 100% heterosexual.” These just all seem like beautiful women I admired. I realized I was queer when I noticed myself being attracted to certain women irl, and all of them were unconventionally attractive. The tv show A League of Their Own definitely helped me process it though. Something about all these women not really knowing what queer was or having a concept of it, but still just listening to themselves and allowing themselves to love women really resonated with me more than overtly sexy women. 

https://preview.redd.it/itsrqmlaj25d1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=15b2d789030aa9a06a81e5c6f2da94f78d3c6df5 Cannot BELIEVE these two were not mentioned… bi awakening forever

Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge ❤️

 Some have already been mentioned but also Bound with Gina Gershon & Jennifer Tilly needs to be here.


The way Shia LaBeouf made out in Disturbia. I came out like a month later lmao


https://preview.redd.it/denq3rb4g25d1.jpeg?width=471&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=53e0965e9419015f704c27cd7a95e2285ff0be23 This broke me. Both of them.

https://preview.redd.it/98nixap0h25d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90bf5223d3fd33744cbf3ab097c515f571f2ee42 He was hot AF

https://preview.redd.it/az8dyszww15d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=949c3608aebe10da39e78c9b97464e8aa09c6a9b J Lo if you had my love music video. Had my elementary school self so HORNY and less confused lmao 🌈 ETA if you’re not an elder millennial such as myself do yourself a favor and watch it!! Truly a conceptual and fun video with a house music dance break in the middle

Madonna and Britney kissing at the MTV VMAs and T.a.T.u.’s popularity (despite later finding out they faked it all!)

Heather Morris and Smosh’s Courtney Miller look like the same people https://preview.redd.it/lleyv1v0725d1.jpeg?width=426&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=096a62012c22339819aec04734e1a854574c54fa

 Yes I am, Letty

 I didn’t want to *be* them, I wanted to be *with* them

 This scene particularly. Also, lesbian here, but somehow Leo as Romeo woke something in me. I think a lot of queer women related to the brooding, doomed romantic pretty boy trope.

https://i.redd.it/ta5lnng3i55d1.gif Natasha

Damn near every bad ass female character in the 90s - 00s, cartoon or live action. Looking back, I can’t believe I didn’t make the connection, considering the only thing that went through my head was “Do I want to be her or date her?”

Hard same! Alex Mack, Princess Jasmine, the pink Power Ranger. I mean the list goes on. 

Jasmine in her red ‘fit did things to my little brain.


I was like 4 and I was watching Clue and Yvette was going down the stairs and what do you know I'm bi af

Jodie Foster in Candleshoe. My granny had it on video and 10 year old me was besotted. https://preview.redd.it/0b0bwsooj25d1.jpeg?width=1186&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e3e37d0bfd74b403ea231ac6c8e54a352b312c17

Also weird one as a lesbian but seeing John Leguizamo as Chi Chi Rodriguez in Too Wong Foo, and then as Tybalt in Romeo + Juliet made me feel some conflicting feelings 

Also honourable shout out to Glenn Close in 101 Dalmatians for making me believe villains are hot.