“She was spicy in a different way.
I was like,Wait a minute.
What am I feeling for this girl?”
“She was spicy in a different way. I was like,Wait a minute. What am I feeling for this girl?"
One of themany questions we askedwas about their first queer crushes.
Here’s how everyone replied.
PosestarAngelica Ross: “My first queer crush wasDarryl StephensinNoah’s Arc.
Hey, boo!”
RapperDa Brat: “My first queer crush was…Michael Jackson?
I didn’t have a first girl queer crush.”
Beauty entrepreneur Jesseca “Judy” Harris-Dupart: “My first queer crush wasDa Brat.”
ComedianKalen Allen: “My first queer crush was Usher.
In kindergarten, I saw him on theConfessionstour.
I was there thinking,Wow, this is changing my life.”
Shea Coulee fromRuPaul’sDrag Race: “I was really young.
I was 4 years old.
It was Patrick Swayze in the movieGhost.
When he was making that clay pot with Demi Moore, I wasn’t looking at Demi Moore.”
Rapper Monaleo: “I always thought women were beautiful.
I don’t know who it was first.
Nicco Annan fromP-Valley: “Gene Anthony Ray fromFame.
He had those thick thighs like me.
I was like, ‘That’s mine!'”
Actor Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor: “My first queer crush was a girl named Carolyn.
She used to ride the bus with me Bus 211 in Magnolia, Mississippi.
Oh my god, I was in love with her!”
She needs to stop playing!
Hennessy needs to call me.
Rapper Kidd Kenn: “Tyga.
I [saw his] OnlyFans…I’m in love.”
Reality TV star Ts Madison: “My first crush was Larenz Tate.
I wish he was queer.
Chile, I would have sliced that thing up and sopped it up with a biscuit.”
Mal Wright fromThe Ultimatum: Queer Love: “Nia Long or Phylicia Rashad.
I had a little thing for Topanga, too.
She was spicy in a different way.
I was like,Wait a minute.
What am I feeling for this girl?”
RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Monet X Change: “Raz-B from B2K.”
The Blackening’s Dewayne Perkins: “Thomas Ian Nicholas.
He was the lead inRookie of the Year, the baseball movie.
I remember being young and thinking,This man is everything.
He was so charming, cool, and athletic.”
He was a shooting guard when they went to the finals in 1999.
He was something to look at.”
I’m passing this question!”
Singer and songwriter Iniko: “Do animals count?
I’m thinking of Nala fromThe Lion King she was so pretty!
Also, Janelle Monae.
Before that, Corbin Bleu.
His face was so soft.
He had the big curls.
It was giving what it needed to give.”
you’re free to read more of our interviews fromBlack, Out & Proudhere.
