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Is it weird to find a gay man very attractive?

64 replies

Chipsandcheese1234 · 28/01/2024 21:38

It's not someone I know, he's on a TV show. Don't want to say which one!
He's openly guy but he's one of the best looking men I've ever seen,I find him incredibly sexually attractive and have a crush on him.
Has this happened to anyone else?

OP posts:
SleepingStandingUp · 28/01/2024 22:05

Honestly op I think it's weirder that you'd find a good looking guy unattractive because he's gay.

HouseplantWrecker · 28/01/2024 22:07

Ben Whishaw! The world’s most beautiful man. Married AND gay hey ho. I heard him on a podcast once and didn’t fancy his personality, which was a relief. But he is ludicrously handsome.

Ramalangadingdong · 28/01/2024 22:07

bozzabollix · 28/01/2024 21:50

Half the world of women fancy Andrew Scott, so no.

Not after seeing him in All of Us Strangers. Now I would like to be his best friend. Or his sister. Or his mum.

Bryonny84 · 28/01/2024 22:11

Not weird at all. I've fancied lots of men who are gay, some I didn't know were gay at the time mind you. All perfectly normal to fancy a handsome guy.

SleepingStandingUp · 28/01/2024 22:16

HouseplantWrecker · 28/01/2024 22:07

Ben Whishaw! The world’s most beautiful man. Married AND gay hey ho. I heard him on a podcast once and didn’t fancy his personality, which was a relief. But he is ludicrously handsome.

You need to see Passage. You see a lot of his assage....

ChanelNo19EDT · 28/01/2024 22:17

If Andrew Scott is the one I'm thinking of (did he play Hamlet?) then it's interesting that people find him attractive. First of all, playing a priest, it's kind of rebellious, or thornbirdzee.. logically, it makes no difference to my chances if the Hemsworth brothers are gay, but it would feel odd to fancy a man who doesn't even like women. No idea why though.

PaulCostinRIP · 28/01/2024 22:17

Rupert Everett was a very attractive man when he was young.

Its a bit different today because personal grooming and beauty treatments are more mainstream amongst heterosexual men so a lot of young men today look gay to me when they probably aren't! 🤷🏼‍♀️

SleepingStandingUp · 28/01/2024 22:18

Radiatorvalves · 28/01/2024 21:45

No. I think you can think someone is objectively handsome and attractive without fancying them.

i remember doing a double take at a parents evening a few years back.. the teacher in question looked like a young and better looking version of Rob Lowe. He was some 25 years younger than me and openly gay. Great teacher which was the main thing.

definitely wouldn’t go as far as you OP!

Why would you not fancy a gay man tho? Plenty of women wouldn't have said no to Freddie Mercury or bloody hell my brain isn't working. Wham dude

TeabySea · 28/01/2024 22:20

When I was younger I fancied Ian McKellen and Julian Clary (as well as a number of straight guys). I'd say both of them still have a touch of appeal.

sep135 · 28/01/2024 22:21

Mine is Adam Lambert though not really sure why (it's not the vertiginous platform shoes he wears at concerts)

Radiatorvalves · 28/01/2024 22:22

Someone mentioned Rupert Everett…. I had a massive crush on him years ago when he was in Another Country (and I didn’t know he was gay).

is Richard Armitage gay? I had no idea.

Whsthappensnow · 28/01/2024 22:23

@SleepingStandingUp Yeah George Michael and not forgetting Neil Tennant back in the day when everyone else was into Bros I thought he was much more attractive.

SerenityNowInsanityLater · 28/01/2024 22:23

Not odd at all. Gay men tend to be much better looking, I find. I’ve probably had more crushes on gay men than straight. My son’s godfather is gorgeous. He’s also gay (and a dear friend of mine for nearly 25 years). In another life… I’ll have him! 😆

Marchintospring · 28/01/2024 22:25

I don't think all gay men are equal in the same way not all straight men are.

I fancy odd, funny, insightful men of any persuasion. George Michael was never on my list but I quite fancy Stephen Fry.

whitebreadjamsandwich · 28/01/2024 22:25

I've had a crush on Olympic dressage rider Carl Hester since I was 8 - he is v v v gay!

Tandora · 28/01/2024 22:26

What a bizarrely homophobic question!

Why would it be weird for a straight woman to find an attractive man attractive?!?

Doyoumind · 28/01/2024 22:28

You find him attractive. What has him being gay got to do with it? No idea what you're seeing in the photo you posted though. He does nothing for me.

localnotail · 28/01/2024 22:29

A lot of gay guys ARE very attractive. ))

Fluffywhitecloudsinthesky · 28/01/2024 22:30

In a celebrity, no, lots of attractive celeb men are gay.

In real-life from afar, no, see above.

In real-life if I got to know them, it would dampen a crush for me because I tend to direct them towards people I know might be feasible. I had a lovely female friend who had a best friend who was clearly gay and she was in utter denial about this and ended up confessing her love for him, even though I told her not to. I suppose nothing ventured nothing gained, but it was so obvious, but she just kept explaining it all away as she wanted it not to be true,

TinkerTiger · 28/01/2024 22:34

I'm in love with Luke Evans

HouseplantWrecker · 28/01/2024 22:35

SleepingStandingUp I have googled that , not sure I can hack it tho if he’s playing married and boring. Too much like real life (mine- not his, I’m sure the Whishaws have a perfectly glamorous life!!

Legendairy · 28/01/2024 22:46

Yeah I have fancied loads of gay guys, mostly on TV rather that in RL. Neil Patrick Harris, Rupert Everett (years ago), Richard Armitage, I'm sure there are loads of others.

JaneJeffer · 28/01/2024 23:16

Two words: Michael French

EmilyTjP · 28/01/2024 23:18

Andrew Scott in Fleabag was perfection!

genesis92 · 28/01/2024 23:27

AngryBird6122 · 28/01/2024 21:51

yes the guy from Bridgerton I think he's gorgeous, don't care about his sexuality!

Same

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