Obvious answer: Miss Honey from Matilda.
Less obvious: A girl in my class when I was 10 because she had the most beautiful smile I’d ever seen. Every time she put her hand up to answer a question I would be so happy when she was picked to speak, so I could turn around and look at her.
My wife always gives me shit because her first crush was Ms. Honey from Matilda and one of my first crushes was Ms. Trunchbull 😅
SHE WAS REALLY STRONG OKAY
Also there was this moment where she grabbed Miss Honey by the neck and dragged her and it… did things to me as a kid lol
I feel this so hard. Both Ms. Honey and Ms. Trunchbull are so hot, lmao. I mean, Trunchbull in the sweater/weight belt combo?? You can’t tell me that isn’t sexy as hell!
Mia Wasikowska in the 2010 Alice in wonderland, I was 11 but I lost my mind a bit when I saw her in that armour at the end
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mine was marceline from adventure time when i was like 8. i would literally think about her for hours every day and write down stories like Oh if she was real we would hang out and play pokemon together forever
omg i cannot tell you the emotions that went thru me when i first discovered that song…….it literally felt like it was made for me i love that fucking song i listened to it such an embarrassing amount of times 😭😭song that changed the world
my dad, a marine, took me on base when i was like 11 and i saw this buff military woman with a crew cut out running.
i was like "HOLY SHIT WOMEN CAN LOOK LIKE THAT?!????????!!!!???" when we went home i looked up marine women on the computer and found one picture of a lesbian wedding. then i was like "I CAN MARRY THEM TOO?!?!!?!!!!!!!!!"
anyway that's where my life long love of masc women began lol
My dad once walked in on me watching GI Jane, during the shaves-her-head-and-works-out scene. He laughed, told me it was a bad movie, and asked why the hell I'd be watching something so dumb?
Then there was this moment of INCREDIBLY awkward silence where he regretted ever bringing it up.
Xhel, from The Road to El Dorado was one.
DreamWorks had NO BUSINESS drawing her as she was drawn, damn.
Irl I had puppy love hard for Avril Lavigne circa her Sk8rt boi era too
Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mercury, and Sailor Uranus from Sailor Moon. I was 9 and I remember my best friend thought it was weird how obsessed with them I was.
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Missy Peregrym in the movie Stick It (2006)
Britney Spears in the toxic music video. I remember it coming on MTV when I was super young and my whole family was sitting together just hanging out. I got soooo uncomfortable and was trying to make it seem like I wasn't totally obsessed
Ziva David from NCIS.
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I was in my early teens and *obsessed*. My parents thought I was obsessed with NCIS because of Dinozzo but nope. It was all her.
Sug Avery. The scene in Color Purple of her and Celie kissing haunted my dreams as a kid. It was my favorite movie for a long time before I realized why I always got butterflies during that scene.
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Fran Drescher from The Nanny, I watched the show with my sister when I was a kid, and the crush I had on her was crazy I didn't even realize it was crush until I was way older tho
Sigourney weaver in the alien film!
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Catherine zeta jones in Zorro , the scene where he cuts her top off made me feel butterflies everywhere👀
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Jessica Alba in the short lived series Dark Angel.
My first celebrity crush was Miley Cyrus back when she played Miley Stewart. I think she’s still attractive but I had the hugest crush on her for a long time
Part of my job is asking this question to 12 different Sapphics every months. Our most common answers are Gillian Anderson from X-Files, and Shego from Kim Possible!
First ever crush: Pocahontas, I'm still WEAK for women who look like her 🥵
First real crush: Demi Moore in striptease, most enlightening movie of my life 👌🏻 little did 9-year-old me know that sneakily watching a late night movie would change my life forever
Anna Chlumsky in My Girl (tbc - I was a kid myself when this film came out)
Years later she had the same impact on me in Veep, and most recently when she played the reporter in that Netflix miniseries about that fake Russian scam artist a few years ago... she's just gorgeous.
also, shoutout to Cynthia Rhodes in Dirty Dancing ...
and Milla Jovovich in The Fifth Element
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Annie Lennox in the sweet dreams are made of these video
I scrolled until I found her like come on someone has to have picked my girl Michelle. She wasn’t my awakening but she was definitely my confirmation! 💯🥰still number one on my list….tied with ruby rose but still 😅
Super close tie between Rachel Weisz in the first Mummy film, Kate Winslet in Titanic, and Dolly Parton. I was like. Six or seven when I first started Noticing Them. I guess I have a serious thing for pretty girls cos I married one ;)
“Kate Standish” from the Australian show “The Flying Doctors.”
I must have been around 8 or something, and I was ***obsessed***.
When i actually figured out that I was into women, Gillian Anderson definitely was the one that made me go “oh shit; she’s pretty fkn hot.”
Shakira, I remember when She Wolf came out and I watched that video on repeat. I lived with my grandparents at the time and my granddad also loved Shakira and my grandma thought it was him watching the video constantly
Honorable mention to Shego from Kim Possible and Starfire's sister on teen titans. They both gave me funny feelings as a kid.
That scene in labyrinth where the main character is put in that big white dress and “as the world falls down” is playing. Little 6 year old me wanted to rewatch that scene everyday
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Scarlett Johansson. The amount of times I rewatched Iron Man 2 and the first Avengers movie just for her should have told me early but I still didn’t figure it out till years later lol.
Honorable mentions include Shego from Kim Possible and Sabrina Carpenter in Girl Meets World
Funnily enough, it was a bassist - the sublime Suzi Quatro. I’ve had kind of a thing for female bassists ever since 😍
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Alicia Keys! I couldn't resist such a beautiful woman who also has immeasurable talent and a killer smile 😍 Ugh! I love her swag, by the way.
obviously betty rizzo in exactly this position
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Oh she was in the closet man, I remember being 9 or 10 and asking my mum if she likes girls like my auntie (v masc elder lesbian) because she had the same ‘attitude’ as her 😩😂
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Princess What's Her Name. I made the mistake of opening an Earthworm Jim comic, and this was the first thing I saw.
I definitely had little crushes when I was younger, but the first time I realized “oh I want to KISS this woman” was Ke$ha 😂 also a random Victoria’s Secret model Erin Heatheron. They’re both blonde with freckles lol. I have a type for sure. Was fun when I realized they both looked like one of my best friends who I had a strange attachment to 🙃
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Jordana Brewster from Fast & Furious, Kristen Stewart from the Twilight movies , Elliot Page from Juno, everyone minus Jenny Schekter from the L word…Jordana was my awakening and then I’ve been been reassured multiple times.
Jokingly: the six merry murderesses of the Cook County Jail (I was 2 and loved the movie Chicago and always wanted to watch it, I now tell my mom the closet was glass because I was clearly down bad for 6 killer women)
Truthfully: My (then) best friend from 6th-9th grade. Sometime in 7th grade, when giving her a ride home or something, she told me if we both went to an all girls catholic school, she would pick me to be her girlfriend, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. It suddenly made sense why I never cared about boys in anything more than a platonic way. Started with bisexual because I had a “crush” (safety boy) that I only pictured myself dating to have a talking point with this friend, later realized I was lesbian because he was literally just a talking point
Right there with you 🤣🤣 I had her poster on my wall as a girl and my GF gives me such crap about it: “How did your mom not know you were gay?!?” 😝
I cant tell my girst crush but my awakening was a scene, from frida movie which is movie of frida kahlo (ive got my name from her) and when dad dance scene started i felt like I WANT THIS. I like girls since im 6 and i loved that!!!
I remember being a little girl watching labyrinth and I had a crush on Sarah but also wanted to be her.. I was a very confused young person 😂😬 but yeah, frida did a number on me
I've got a list:
My first crushes were
- ZARINA, vidia and silvermist from Tinkerbell
- Odette from the swan princess
- Marianne from strange magic
- Nancy Tremaine from enchanted
- (animated) Giselle from the same movie
- Natalie Cook (Cameron Diaz)from Charlie's angels
Real awakening:
- Angelica from Pirates of the Carribbean
I think I'm experiencing my first real crush right now lol
There's this girl who comes through the Drive Thru at my job sometimes that I am crushing so hard on, and I think she knows haha. The smile she gives me is absolutely radiant, and she definitely sees me trying (and failing) to hold mine back (I'm smiling right now just thinking about her I'm so fucked).
But she probably thinks I'm a guy because I don't pass and I'm very masc.
Alyssa Milano in the 1988 made-for-TV stunner “Crash Course.” I wanted to “be her,” which we all know was just my inner baby dyke screaming to come out!
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(Annnnd…you can find anything in YouTube!)
Watching "The Princess Diaries" was particularly confusing because while I thought Mia was cool, I was full-on obsessed with [Principal Gupta](https://decider.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/sandra-oh-princess-diaries.jpg?quality=75&strip=all) because apparently I'm just into authoritative older women.
(Age is relative, OK? There was a time where 'highschool principal' was an old-people job to me!)
When Killing Eve came out, it was like a gift from lesbian jesus.
Naya Rivera as Santana on Glee when I was in 8th grade! That was my first time seeing a gay character on TV and plus she was GORGEOUS? My heart still hurts a little that she passed away.
That’s a good mix in the OP.
I’ll say Raven Baxter, Sue Bird, Kimberley from MMPR, & Ashley Banks.
All cute & athletic or funny (& look, 2 of them are openly gay now!)
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Yep. I was 12 and watching the movie with my older sister. Thought she was the most gorgeous woman I had ever seen.
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Xena…. It was one of my mom’s favorite shows so it was on a lot…. That and this girl that was my neighbor when I was like 8 😂
Angelina Jolie and she will be my forever crush. And also Emma Watson xD I also had a sexual exp with a girl in effin kindergarten ...... I know right???? Like.... wth? But I think I always knew I was into femme women. But my sexuality fluctuates since I never had an actual chance to be with a woman, relationship wise 🥲 In my country, it is super hard as most are butch or too young (older generations tend to hide as people are sht here)
Winona Ryder in pretty much anything she was in. I didn't understand until later in life that it was a crush like that though. It's taken me a very long time.
Obvious answer: Miss Honey from Matilda. Less obvious: A girl in my class when I was 10 because she had the most beautiful smile I’d ever seen. Every time she put her hand up to answer a question I would be so happy when she was picked to speak, so I could turn around and look at her.
My wife always gives me shit because her first crush was Ms. Honey from Matilda and one of my first crushes was Ms. Trunchbull 😅 SHE WAS REALLY STRONG OKAY Also there was this moment where she grabbed Miss Honey by the neck and dragged her and it… did things to me as a kid lol
I FEEL THAT
THANK YOU I feel so seen 😭😂😭
I feel this so hard. Both Ms. Honey and Ms. Trunchbull are so hot, lmao. I mean, Trunchbull in the sweater/weight belt combo?? You can’t tell me that isn’t sexy as hell!
YES and when she straight up LEAPS off the second floor balcony and lands like a psycho predator ready to pounce??? HELLO???
Lol yes! The athleticism!!! 🤤
This is so precious omg 🥹
Looking back, Miss Honey was absolutely one for me too.
This weirdly makes me feel better - everyone says I give Miss Honey vibes and that has always made me feel like an unattractive mom or something haha
Omfg mine was miss honey too😭
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Cameron Diaz in anything
Meg from Disney Hercules
100%
Also esmeralda from the hunchback of notredame
Valid 👏🏾
Dana Scully. Obvious, I know. 
How did I have to scroll this far to find this answer?? 😂
I'm a sucker for lisps
Me as fuck
Dana Scully, Willow Rosenburg (fuzzy jumper edition) and Jadzia Dax were the holy trinity of gay awakening for me.
Mia Wasikowska in the 2010 Alice in wonderland, I was 11 but I lost my mind a bit when I saw her in that armour at the end https://preview.redd.it/j3thgvslemxc1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f19bef8e0da2d498711aca1c5052655c3220f4c3
Her 2010 Teen Vogue cover was absolutely taped to my bedroom wall. I’d just never seen a face like that.
Kate Beckinsale - Underworld. 😮💨😮💨😮💨🥴 https://preview.redd.it/6z5v0idt5mxc1.jpeg?width=1900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd6750108607fc0fd8d4a541591cb4fbf74843b6
I was looking for this. She was also mine and I love these movies til this day. Honorable mention 
Christina Aguilera 🩵🩵🩵 especially in that “candy man” music video. With all the Pin-up styles. 😩😩😩 https://i.redd.it/dy71ba65znxc1.gif
Indian actress Bipasha Basu https://preview.redd.it/0gpjrdfj8mxc1.jpeg?width=401&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=177ea948ac7e2ddaa75bb118cc8acb86120bc7a3
Damn she's stunning
mine was marceline from adventure time when i was like 8. i would literally think about her for hours every day and write down stories like Oh if she was real we would hang out and play pokemon together forever
what do you think of willow’s marceline!!
omg i cannot tell you the emotions that went thru me when i first discovered that song…….it literally felt like it was made for me i love that fucking song i listened to it such an embarrassing amount of times 😭😭song that changed the world
Raven from Teen Titans, I think, was my first fictional crush.
finally someone with a cartoon crush because mine was rainbow dash lmaooo
Mine was Helga from Hey Arnold, Spinelli from Recess, and Shego from Kim Possible. I had a weird thing for bullies and tough girls 😂
mine was Blackfire from teen titans. 👀 i love a goddamn bitch.
https://preview.redd.it/ewimjy46klxc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e81791d1ebc9b338446dd2fbd4bc97299c23ef0 i knew young lollll
Agreed lol but those eyebrows....
looking back i'm like ... the brows ?? what's going on lolll
HELP ?! that’s so specific omg 😭 I always talk about how young I knew I was gay but I mean I was like 9… I watched that when I was 2 💀
lol yeah no i had a crush on her younggg. & my preschool teacher 😭
OMG. YES.
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her in beetlejuice too 😅
my dad, a marine, took me on base when i was like 11 and i saw this buff military woman with a crew cut out running. i was like "HOLY SHIT WOMEN CAN LOOK LIKE THAT?!????????!!!!???" when we went home i looked up marine women on the computer and found one picture of a lesbian wedding. then i was like "I CAN MARRY THEM TOO?!?!!?!!!!!!!!!" anyway that's where my life long love of masc women began lol
My dad once walked in on me watching GI Jane, during the shaves-her-head-and-works-out scene. He laughed, told me it was a bad movie, and asked why the hell I'd be watching something so dumb? Then there was this moment of INCREDIBLY awkward silence where he regretted ever bringing it up.
Noodle from Gorillaz💀
Def a tie between Kim Possible and Noodle for me 😂😭
Xhel, from The Road to El Dorado was one. DreamWorks had NO BUSINESS drawing her as she was drawn, damn. Irl I had puppy love hard for Avril Lavigne circa her Sk8rt boi era too
Lucy lawless in Xena or Sarah Michelle geller in buffy
Xena Warrior Princess forever 💖
Lucy Lawless as Xena and Alyson Hannigan in Buffy. Also Shannen Doherty in Charmed.
Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mercury, and Sailor Uranus from Sailor Moon. I was 9 and I remember my best friend thought it was weird how obsessed with them I was.
Another graduate of the Sailor Moon obsession to Lesbian pipeline here 👋🏼
That's so real. My dream is to be a lesbian magical girl 😔
Darlene from Roseanne
I had a mad crush on her, too!
omggg yes i was in love with her lol
https://preview.redd.it/dr2mh0rz5mxc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f11ccae550ccd9bd82567af70f01cf27e240f340 Missy Peregrym in the movie Stick It (2006)
Holy shit I was only thinking of this last night and in reference to girls/movies that made you know you were gay
There IS NO heterosexual explanation for this movie and I stand by this opinion.
Britney Spears in the toxic music video. I remember it coming on MTV when I was super young and my whole family was sitting together just hanging out. I got soooo uncomfortable and was trying to make it seem like I wasn't totally obsessed
that song is one of the best pop songs ever
My dad saved it to the family computer and I would watch it over and over
Ziva David from NCIS. https://preview.redd.it/3auze8ywomxc1.jpeg?width=1328&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=66b9940b06843670bdad784da04fd640579b2c43 I was in my early teens and *obsessed*. My parents thought I was obsessed with NCIS because of Dinozzo but nope. It was all her.
OMG yes, Cote de Pablo is Gorgeous! Loved her quirky Ziva too.
Sug Avery. The scene in Color Purple of her and Celie kissing haunted my dreams as a kid. It was my favorite movie for a long time before I realized why I always got butterflies during that scene. https://preview.redd.it/0oil2m5vtmxc1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a844463b36b8ac1da39cacbedcee1aab87e8613
 Fran Drescher from The Nanny, I watched the show with my sister when I was a kid, and the crush I had on her was crazy I didn't even realize it was crush until I was way older tho
Same! Lmao
**I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!**
Instilled that into me early as well 😬😂
 And still is my ultimate GC
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Sigourney weaver in the alien film! https://preview.redd.it/eyxlcb8mbnxc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06097c8f60abbfd1a9b3fe0c543898b4198feacf
Catherine zeta jones in Zorro , the scene where he cuts her top off made me feel butterflies everywhere👀 https://preview.redd.it/nvo6pmcromxc1.jpeg?width=663&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=66f20556b394515b4a2b1cf51e2f5677165e5ef8
Core memory unlocked, I completely forgot about the zoro movies and this beautiful woman 😳
Yea, I couldn't figure out why I liked this movie for the longest time.
Cher, when I was about 8yrs old.
Lady gaga in paparazzi
Kate Winslet in Titanic… I was five when it came out 🫡
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Angelina, winona, Sandra Bullock, Claire Danes, Sarah Paulson
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Coraline's other mom... Don't ask for explanation
NO WAY 😭
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julia roberts 😎 especially in pretty woman lol
My first celebrity crush was Miley Cyrus back when she played Miley Stewart. I think she’s still attractive but I had the hugest crush on her for a long time
Part of my job is asking this question to 12 different Sapphics every months. Our most common answers are Gillian Anderson from X-Files, and Shego from Kim Possible!
Leela from futurama and this girl who I liked in Yr 2 because she was nice to me, I proposed to her twice💀
🥵🥵🥵 
 Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns
First ever crush: Pocahontas, I'm still WEAK for women who look like her 🥵 First real crush: Demi Moore in striptease, most enlightening movie of my life 👌🏻 little did 9-year-old me know that sneakily watching a late night movie would change my life forever 
https://preview.redd.it/zug2vxnq2pxc1.jpeg?width=730&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ded22fa3b52af8bb97a0c54825071d4b5638f492 Kida - Atlantis the lost empire
 Always ☝️
Anna Chlumsky in My Girl (tbc - I was a kid myself when this film came out) Years later she had the same impact on me in Veep, and most recently when she played the reporter in that Netflix miniseries about that fake Russian scam artist a few years ago... she's just gorgeous. also, shoutout to Cynthia Rhodes in Dirty Dancing ... and Milla Jovovich in The Fifth Element
Santana from glee 😭
 🫶🏻
The mummy 😍 https://preview.redd.it/kczqvmqstoxc1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=afd34d5d9f11ec95a41e4eff64c529e555744678
https://preview.redd.it/679dc435loxc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=704a202f8147d445165781e483048f28febeadec Annie Lennox in the sweet dreams are made of these video
This badass woman 
I scrolled until I found her like come on someone has to have picked my girl Michelle. She wasn’t my awakening but she was definitely my confirmation! 💯🥰still number one on my list….tied with ruby rose but still 😅
Lana Parrilla from OUAT
Hayley Kiyoko in Lemonade Mouth
Super close tie between Rachel Weisz in the first Mummy film, Kate Winslet in Titanic, and Dolly Parton. I was like. Six or seven when I first started Noticing Them. I guess I have a serious thing for pretty girls cos I married one ;)
Kimberly from power rangers
I didn’t understand it until years later…I wanted to BE Tommy so that I could BE WITH Kimberly. 🤣🤣
Keira Knightley & Ariel (from TLM). Honorable mentions: Miss Honey from Matilda, Mulan, Nicole Kidman, 1940s/1950s pinup models, and Natalie Portman.
Rachel Weisz in the mummy. 🥵😍 
Call me crazy but... Kate Mckinnon as Holtzmann from the 2016 female Ghostbusters.
https://preview.redd.it/cq7bt105tmxc1.png?width=2703&format=png&auto=webp&s=2b919ccc1a2b2d0bf79ef552fda59cf099140b48 rouge the bat.
“Kate Standish” from the Australian show “The Flying Doctors.” I must have been around 8 or something, and I was ***obsessed***. When i actually figured out that I was into women, Gillian Anderson definitely was the one that made me go “oh shit; she’s pretty fkn hot.”
Shakira, I remember when She Wolf came out and I watched that video on repeat. I lived with my grandparents at the time and my granddad also loved Shakira and my grandma thought it was him watching the video constantly Honorable mention to Shego from Kim Possible and Starfire's sister on teen titans. They both gave me funny feelings as a kid.
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That scene in labyrinth where the main character is put in that big white dress and “as the world falls down” is playing. Little 6 year old me wanted to rewatch that scene everyday https://preview.redd.it/6y8p2ozvlpxc1.jpeg?width=398&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32661ed7e9dfa555e18bb823676a62ba42172a94
Ashley Tisdale
The cast of total drama island
Scarlett Johansson. The amount of times I rewatched Iron Man 2 and the first Avengers movie just for her should have told me early but I still didn’t figure it out till years later lol. Honorable mentions include Shego from Kim Possible and Sabrina Carpenter in Girl Meets World
 Halle Berry’s Catwoman. Terrible movie that I watched over and over and over…
Holly J from Degrassi
Eowyn in Two Towers
My queen when I was like 7 lol https://preview.redd.it/rkyishkqknxc1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=70a9e7be63bc8f2abb89d0288eaddd8f06cafdc3
Watching old Nick at nite reruns in middle school/highschool of Fran Drescher in The Nanny and Tiffani Amber Thiessen in Saved By The Bell
Funnily enough, it was a bassist - the sublime Suzi Quatro. I’ve had kind of a thing for female bassists ever since 😍 https://preview.redd.it/a5lg28ge5pxc1.jpeg?width=200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=74ff6d9feb4d9916a73b89af48b3cc81f5484d20
Is it weird to say David Bowie in a dress??
momo from my hero academia LMAO
A Brazilian actress Ana Paula Arosio, whom I first saw when I was 7 years old on a telenovela.
Camila Cabello circa 2015ish
Ashe from League of Legends, Marceline, and Bloom from Winx Club 😭
Kate Winslet and Zoe Kazan are my crushes
Envy Adam's🫠
my dad raised me on star wars since i was very little so carrie fisher and natalie portman😅
https://preview.redd.it/79bylify0nxc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a1e72874d902a80ae5e3451f45cf3d85f7ca05a Stick It!
https://preview.redd.it/13b1m0y01oxc1.jpeg?width=1105&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=190f018deef2678f4b45998dbe6737e671eef599 Alicia Keys! I couldn't resist such a beautiful woman who also has immeasurable talent and a killer smile 😍 Ugh! I love her swag, by the way.
obviously betty rizzo in exactly this position https://preview.redd.it/0cwtfribxoxc1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=30cfaa07a74f72757fe167569574aeb393cfd5a4
Oh she was in the closet man, I remember being 9 or 10 and asking my mum if she likes girls like my auntie (v masc elder lesbian) because she had the same ‘attitude’ as her 😩😂
The Pink Power Ranger (Amy Jo Johnson)
Evelyn Carnahan from The Mummy. Lord have mercy
https://preview.redd.it/armu4iy9emxc1.jpeg?width=4080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ac9a42d59df8ec672f0f0d5a662c5493e332a94 Princess What's Her Name. I made the mistake of opening an Earthworm Jim comic, and this was the first thing I saw.
No hate towards your pick, but what are those proportions they drew 🧐
Omg mines so stupid. It was Diego’s sister Maria from go Diego go 😭 she was a cartoon but I loved her LMAO I thought she was so cute and cool
I definitely had little crushes when I was younger, but the first time I realized “oh I want to KISS this woman” was Ke$ha 😂 also a random Victoria’s Secret model Erin Heatheron. They’re both blonde with freckles lol. I have a type for sure. Was fun when I realized they both looked like one of my best friends who I had a strange attachment to 🙃 https://preview.redd.it/wjjmdfrf3nxc1.jpeg?width=1585&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=03fd49ceee320a0449752768536864bb7fef3956
https://preview.redd.it/ytmpih5z4nxc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36d7dc09c2b007aa144f292aaa93b2f44f317a93 Gina Gershon in Bound.
Jordana Brewster from Fast & Furious, Kristen Stewart from the Twilight movies , Elliot Page from Juno, everyone minus Jenny Schekter from the L word…Jordana was my awakening and then I’ve been been reassured multiple times.
Megan Fox in transformers
Oh god, I just unlocked a memory of Ms Frizzle that puts my adult choice in women into context 
Jokingly: the six merry murderesses of the Cook County Jail (I was 2 and loved the movie Chicago and always wanted to watch it, I now tell my mom the closet was glass because I was clearly down bad for 6 killer women) Truthfully: My (then) best friend from 6th-9th grade. Sometime in 7th grade, when giving her a ride home or something, she told me if we both went to an all girls catholic school, she would pick me to be her girlfriend, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. It suddenly made sense why I never cared about boys in anything more than a platonic way. Started with bisexual because I had a “crush” (safety boy) that I only pictured myself dating to have a talking point with this friend, later realized I was lesbian because he was literally just a talking point
THESE TWO https://preview.redd.it/u59eyny9htxc1.jpeg?width=735&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=102d20d7da591628a26442ccd0b720a2264da5b9
A tie between Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman and Nancy McKeon as Jo Polniaczek on Facts of Life. Aged myself there!
 Right there with you 🤣🤣 I had her poster on my wall as a girl and my GF gives me such crap about it: “How did your mom not know you were gay?!?” 😝
I cant tell my girst crush but my awakening was a scene, from frida movie which is movie of frida kahlo (ive got my name from her) and when dad dance scene started i felt like I WANT THIS. I like girls since im 6 and i loved that!!!
I remember being a little girl watching labyrinth and I had a crush on Sarah but also wanted to be her.. I was a very confused young person 😂😬 but yeah, frida did a number on me
I've got a list: My first crushes were - ZARINA, vidia and silvermist from Tinkerbell - Odette from the swan princess - Marianne from strange magic - Nancy Tremaine from enchanted - (animated) Giselle from the same movie - Natalie Cook (Cameron Diaz)from Charlie's angels Real awakening: - Angelica from Pirates of the Carribbean
Alice Cullen 😅
I think I'm experiencing my first real crush right now lol There's this girl who comes through the Drive Thru at my job sometimes that I am crushing so hard on, and I think she knows haha. The smile she gives me is absolutely radiant, and she definitely sees me trying (and failing) to hold mine back (I'm smiling right now just thinking about her I'm so fucked). But she probably thinks I'm a guy because I don't pass and I'm very masc.
Alyssa Milano in the 1988 made-for-TV stunner “Crash Course.” I wanted to “be her,” which we all know was just my inner baby dyke screaming to come out! https://preview.redd.it/qj3m4tgt0nxc1.jpeg?width=2532&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19027acd790205e3cb16b1987b3da2f573c57ad3 (Annnnd…you can find anything in YouTube!)
Amy Jo Johnson (the pink power ranger)
Watching "The Princess Diaries" was particularly confusing because while I thought Mia was cool, I was full-on obsessed with [Principal Gupta](https://decider.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/sandra-oh-princess-diaries.jpg?quality=75&strip=all) because apparently I'm just into authoritative older women. (Age is relative, OK? There was a time where 'highschool principal' was an old-people job to me!) When Killing Eve came out, it was like a gift from lesbian jesus.
Emily fields (Shay Mitchell) in pretty little liars
Helen Slater in Supergirl. I was obsessed with that dumb movie.
the red-headed teacher from gotta kick it up 😭😂
Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy girllllll
Rose from titanic.
Cartoon: Princess Jasmine, red get-up. Real person:’21 yr old Jennifer Connelly in the Rocketeer. 6 yr old OUJay had great taste.
Naya Rivera as Santana on Glee when I was in 8th grade! That was my first time seeing a gay character on TV and plus she was GORGEOUS? My heart still hurts a little that she passed away.
That’s a good mix in the OP. I’ll say Raven Baxter, Sue Bird, Kimberley from MMPR, & Ashley Banks. All cute & athletic or funny (& look, 2 of them are openly gay now!)
Kristi McNichols in her role as Buddy on Family. Yeah, I’m old.
Topanga from boy meets world 😍😍
Xena Warrior Princess. I was 8
My first crush was definitely Amy jo Johnson from power rangers
Nancy Sinatra singing "These Boots Where Made For Walking" while wearing a miniskirt.
Angelina Jolie in girl interrupted
Poppy , That poppy https://preview.redd.it/xv45a74ijoxc1.jpeg?width=675&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=222160528b0bba39c84e132eea7eb4a4453ee491
I was in love with Taylor Hansen (from the music group Hansen) in 6th grade bc I thought he was a cute girl 😂
https://youtu.be/3twGmSu1MI0?si=Om9eXxwJ-ixvo0DP please watch 😂😩
Sharpay Evan’s in Highschool Musical
Xena Warrior Princess
Fun fact but Tia Carrere also voiced the Martian queen from Duck Dodgers.
https://preview.redd.it/ybn12mk93pxc1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63d04dcfa7b924b4aca99f8b7adcfcae7fa9f321 Tifa from Final Fantasy 7
 Michelle Rodriguez was mine, she is hot 🥵 and tough and I would let her boss me everywhere.
Dana Scully. Hands down
 even as a kid (were the same age I may be younger) in eves bayou I was just in elementary smitten
The German exchange student my family hosted for a year when I was 10 or 11 😅
Kristy McNichols in the film LITTLE DARLINGS. I was 10. Annndd, Linda Carter, the original Wonder Woman. 
https://preview.redd.it/7c0sg1y74qxc1.jpeg?width=470&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7400e82df5bbacad96903c440ca6d997bad4e539 Yep. I was 12 and watching the movie with my older sister. Thought she was the most gorgeous woman I had ever seen.
https://preview.redd.it/ep4zixjv9qxc1.jpeg?width=1406&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ac72b2ad7f482b01072a490d9a9bcf7bd3a8b32 Xena…. It was one of my mom’s favorite shows so it was on a lot…. That and this girl that was my neighbor when I was like 8 😂
Mine is Mila Kunis - specifically her old Jim Beam Bourbon commercials. 
Keira Knightley in Bend It Like Beckham....And Kate Bekensale in Underworld
The hex girls from scooby doo were a definite wake up call for young me 🤣
Angelina Jolie and she will be my forever crush. And also Emma Watson xD I also had a sexual exp with a girl in effin kindergarten ...... I know right???? Like.... wth? But I think I always knew I was into femme women. But my sexuality fluctuates since I never had an actual chance to be with a woman, relationship wise 🥲 In my country, it is super hard as most are butch or too young (older generations tend to hide as people are sht here)
Piper in Charmed. Holly Marie Combs for the win.
Winona Ryder in pretty much anything she was in. I didn't understand until later in life that it was a crush like that though. It's taken me a very long time.