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I'm a bisexual man, but I totally resonate with the experience of being attracted to both members of a TV couple! Beck and Jade from Victorious, and Alex and Mason from Wizards of Waverly Place both really jump out to me as being...formative lol
Growing up in a conservative evangelical home, it never occurred to me until my twenties that I might be bisexual. Looking back, there were obvious crushes on female characters and stars-Belle, Batgirl, Cat Woman, Poison Ivy (especially in Batman the animated series), Courtney Draper, Brie Larson, Jane Seymour, Susan Ivanova, everyone in Cruel Intentions, and so many more.
For me I am pretty positive there were some girl characters that I might’ve liked more in a romantic way than just liked the character in general and a platonic way. It’s difficult to know for sure. I probably didn’t realize that bc I was young and I didn’t know abt anything other than straight. My parents are very accepting and they never try to hide being gay away from me but I just never learned about it until I think late elementary school
Relate to ALL of those. The stick it scene is burned to my brain. Girlie, do you remember the Spy Kids parents? THAT was my bi awakening moment. Like, the feels were felt and suppressed ✌🏻
Speaking of Spy Kids, I definitely had a huge crush on Demetra from Spy Kids 3. Even though she was a glitch or whatever, she was definitely a hot glitch 😂 And Carmen was pretty hot too.
Carmen isss. I totally forgot abt how much I loved Spy Kids until I read this comment. But fr tho, why is my type badass girls in cartoon shows I watched as a kid. Agshsghsgdhhsjsn
@daddyhannah Also funny story, I saw the trailer for Stick It years before I saw the actual movie because it was on one of our most watched DVD's (remember when we had those before your movies at home? Lol) and once I finally saw it I was like, yes. This is exactly what I expected and more, thank you very much
My bi awakening was Sabrina Carpenter in 2017 when I was a teenager, but I always found redheads to be super pretty growing and I never knew that they would actually become crushes for me. I loved Anna from Frozen, Ginny from Harry Potter, Anne from Anne With An E, Amy Adams (specifically Giselle), Demelza in Poldark.
Sabrina Carpenter being an awakening is so relatable- I remember thinking she was *so* pretty and thinking I just wanted to be like her. In reality, I actually had a massive crush on her 😂
Omg Brendan Fraser & Rachel Weisz in The Mummy & The Mummy Returns was DEFINITELY one of THE "sweetie you're bi" moments for me. But I feel like I never hear anyone also talk about Patricia Velasquez as Anck-Su-Namun (her alive form not her crusty mummy form lol). Like the golden body paint "costume" was a MOMENT and omg her flash-back fight scene with Rachel Weisz in The Mummy Returns! I truly don't know how I didn't see the signs 😂😂
I’m asexual/aromantic so I literally never understood crushes at all (part of me still doesn’t lol). I grew up in a fairly conservative Christian family so I was very confused why everyone else had crushes on classmates and celebrities and movie/show characters, and yet I had absolutely none. I learned about a sexuality when I was about 25 or 26 and I remember thinking “man I wish I was asexual, then I’d have an excuse for why I never find anyone attractive”… it took another year before I truly figured it out 😅 it’s never too late to discover/learn things about yourself!
My Bi awakening was Katie McGrath as Morgana Pendragon in Merlin. Repressed that until I was about 26, when I realized I was Bi. Since then anything Katie McGrath has done I’ve been a thirsty bitch over. Like, her most recent role as The Adjudicator in the John Wick prequel “The Continental”…I’m unwell! She makes a half mask and purple makeup look so good! Now, at 30…I find characters like Peggy Carter from the Marvel Universe, Rebecca Welton from Ted Lasso, The Witch Mother from Hocus Pocus 2, Maleficent, Sin Rostro from Jane the Virgin, Lou Clark from the movie “Me Before You” and Poison Ivy from DC’s Harley Quinn are my cup of tea 😂. Now, as far as the men goes: Steve Rogers, Shang-Chi and Scott Lang from Marvel, Brendan Fraser in George of the Jungle, Wade from Disney Pixar’s Elemental, Tom Webster from the movie “Last Christmas” and Jack from Mary Poppins returns.
Okay so I am a guy who is Bisexual and I love that I was into all of the girls that you pick too, but *also* half the guys from the same series too and was just like "Hm. Why do I think both are hot!? I am so confused!" Man, when I found out the term 'Bisexual' existed SO MANY THINGS JUST CLICKED.
Every single one of these was spot on and made me feel very seen. As a bisexual woman who’s never had a romantic relationship with another woman, I often wonder if I’m actually bisexual or if everyone feels this way. Hannah, thank you for making me feel validated 💛💛
Eris from Sinbad, absolutely yes! For me it wasn’t so much a “sexual awakening” as it was a “girls are super pretty” awakening, but I agree with this list, and I would like to add Roxanne from A Goofy Movie. And… 2004 Catwoman with Halle Berry.
Mine were Lexa from The 100, watched that when I was like 12. She was a antagonist/love interest for the protagonist of that show. It was also one of the first shows I’d seen with a queer protagonist. I loved it. And then there was Santana from Glee, when I was about 13. I’m sure there are loads from earlier that I just didn’t realize back then, but these are the ones where I started being aware of it.
As a gay guy who is the same age as you, I remember two animated character that were my sexual awakening: Prince Cornelius in the animated Don Bluth Thumbelina (a literally fairy prince, omg) and then *very specifically* Jafar's transformation into a huge red genie. Not for his face, but like... that size??? Those muscles??? OOF. That's a whole lotta man, lmao. 😅
Omg Eris the Goddess of Chaos was my first awakening at six! The way she was animated so fluidly and wispy, the animators totally knew what they were doing lol!
Shego, yes! At a certain point, it felt like I only watched the show for her, lol. I'm 23 and only accepted I'm bi when I was 19-20, and my family still doesn't know, but aside from Shego, my (female) awakening characters were; Holli Would, Lola Bunny, Chel, Meg (Hercules), Miss Bellum (Powerpuff Girls), Kida (Atlantis Lost Empire), Jessie (Pokemon), some Sims characters, Bulma, Launch and Android 18 from DB/DBZ, Buffy the vampire slayer, Fergie and P!nk. I also remember really liking this one newscaster, so I'd always watch the news with my dad to see her.
I WAS SO OBSESSED WITH STICK IT! I feel like that was the beginning of my thing for masc women, because i was SO into the main character, she knew how to skate and do bike stunts and then they went and put her in a tight outfit and i lost it
Hannah...we are SO alike lmao. Almost every single girl on this list is also on MY list. And I ALSO was in denial until my late 20s ajsdklj. But also from The Mummy and The Mummy Returns we GOTTA mention Anck-Su-Namun. Especially that fight scene between her and Evie in the second movie?? 11 yr old me seeing that in theaters...that was certainly a time. Basically this whole video was me screaming 'YES! EXACTLY! THAT'S ME!' So well done lol. I know there are honestly so many others that in retrospect it's like, 'ohhhh...I was just really into her', but god I can't remember any right now. But it's always so nice to know that others were just like me growing up haha
Alexandria Daddario in the Percy Jackson movie did something to me. Shego was definitely one of my bi awakenings as well. Jade from Victorious. Faith from Buffy. Lucy Lawless from Xena. Michelle Rodriguez in basically anything. I have a thing for badass women and if they stepped on me, I’d say thank you.
YAS for the Mummy!!!!!! Kida from Atlantis was a huge one for me too! PS I now have to go watch Stick It! I've never seen it! One for me, is that immortal woman in Death Becomes Her. I think the character's name was Lisle maybe.
as an asexual I used to be so confused when people talked about their sexual awakenings. I was like... yeah I remember loving danny phantom when I was younger, he's cool, I would date him I guess... that was as close as i got lol. so thanks for the deep dive lol
Ruby rose in the pitch perfect 3 riff off. I would watch it over and over again "for the music" and just stare at her lol 12 year old me was very confused 😂. Also my 18th birthday oresent next year WILL be a subscription to the Daddy Hannah Patreon lol i love this channel so much!!
I watched The Road to El Dorado and Pirates of the Caribbean in the same year (I was 11) and when I tell you the combination of Tulio/Che and Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom did things to my little, innocent brain...
Haha it was only 2 years ago when I actually had my full awakening and I'm 41! That was no character - Dua Lipa shook it out of me. SHOOK I tell ya. But looking back I can definitely agree with Jasmine specifically in red, plus Lydia in Beetlejuice, and absolute bi panic in BTVS between Faith and Spike, I just didn't know what those feelings were. Evangelical suppression is a hell of a thing. So glad the fog has lifted and I can appreciate how hot everyone is 😄
I'm 34, so sorta in the middle there. I'm just gay. Faith is everything. I adore Willow/Tara and I want to be Amber Benson, but it was always Faith/Buffy for me.
OMG yes Faith! (42 here). I remember she showed up dressed in black leather, asked "are we alone here, Leicester?", then took out a knife - and I almost fell over. I also went gaga over Max in Dark Angel. Right before I came out, it was Katherine Pierce on The Vampire Diaries and me going, "she's so awesome I just love her" not realizing I was all 👁️👄👁️
Hi, born in 2003 here and my most eye-rollingly obvious one is Daphne from scooby do mystery inc when daphne joins the hex girls and starts calling herself Crush. I think I was still in primary school and it was right at bedtime when she started singing but I stayed up for HOURS rewinding and watching that moment but all I could think of as a reason why is that I must want to be a singer like her 😂😂 I used to be so pure ❤ Lobed this video so much x
I am quite a bit older than you and you unlocked a core bisexual memory for me when you were talking about the collage on your door. I had a collage of all celebrities and crushes I had- male and female on my door and it was so well done that my (now) ex husband and I bonded over making him a collage for his wall in his bedroom- there was, unsurprisingly, a lot of overlap. Also you should totally be Poison Ivy for Halloween.
Forgot to add my characters! The Mummy, just everyone in that movie. Also pretty much everyone in Gia. My parents were visibly uncomfortable with my obsession with Angelina Jolie, and the movie "But I'm a Cheerleader!" Honorable mentions include Dana Scully, Olivia Benson, and Willow from Buffy. This is for sure not a full list. I have been very bisexual for a very long time.
This, ALL of this 👏 Especially the part about thinking you were just a girly girls girl and looked up to certain women/characters, then realizing later that’s not why you loved them….so spot on
THE ICE BATH SCENE IN STICK IT. THEE SCENE!!!! I have quite a few of the same one (Eris, Shego, etc). But the one who finally broke down the closet door for me was Lucy Liu in Elementary, when I was 18 or 19
As a demi, I find it fascinating to hear how people had awakenings or feel attraction. People would say XX person is so hot and mean they were attracted to them, and I would look at the same person, recognize that they were objectively attractive (while feeling no interest in them), and assumed that was what attraction was lol but after hearing people talk about actual attraction, I’m like nope - we are not having the same experience 😂 seeing the difference is helpful, because now when I am ACTUALLy attracted to a person, I understand my experience better 😊
So I'm 15 and it honestly took me a while to realize that I was into girls. I came out when I was 13 and while I did identify as straight for the longest time, I can pinpoint a few gay crushes on television as my "pansexual awakening". Yes, Jasmine from Aladdin in that specific red dress scene was very alluring to me, and I never knew why until I realized I liked girls. And I'm gonna tell you, Raya and Namaari from the Disney movie, god I had such huge crushes on them, especially Namaari. With the gay part of me, I do lean more toward masc. Women. But I've never wanted so much for a girl to be real so I could be with them. Like Namaari (while she kinda was the antagonist) I really liked her, and still do...
I also had an Emma Watson shrine on my bedroom door (it had red carpet photos too, and some Keira Knightley snuck in there as well lol) , and it was when I was discussing that with a friend a few years ago that i started thinking "girl, that's a little bit 💅!" Thinking back, red outfit jasmine, ferngully, Brink, and Anastasia (for BOTH leads, bi realness) got replayed A LOT at my house...🏳️🌈💜
ERIS was amazing! Such an underrated villain! The character designer and animators need all the praise. Plus Michelle Pfieffer's brilliant performance.🥰 Also, I love how Rick and Evelyn always come as a pair when it comes to people's sexual awakenings. 😊 For me, it was Richard Armitage as Guy of Gisbourne in the BBC Robin Hood. Black leather, guy-liner, bad guy slowly becoming a good man.😍
I had a similar "Emma Watson" moment, but with Margot Robbie after Suicide Squad came out. 12 year old me had no idea that straight women did not have several posters and photos of Harley Quinn on their walls 😂
i absolutely love u hannah u’re so real for this and jazmin so true🤭 i would say some of mine were jade from victorious, rory and lorelai gilmore, santana from glee💔 i could go on
My girlfriend and I have theorized for years that The Mummy is a formative experience for all queer millennials, so thanks for continuing to prove us right.
Haven’t finished the video yet, but yes please be Poison Ivy for Halloween and just work through all of the redheads in your bi awakening list for future halloweens please and thank you 🧡
Oh my god Hannah!! This list is very true. I have so many awakening moments lmao, but the biggest for me was in mamma mia (the movie version) Lay all your love on me. I used to be disgusted by that scene, but when I came out I realised it was because I didn't know who I would rather be with. Bless little baby gay me 🌈🌈🌈
Honey, honey, was my lesbian awakening. At 4 years old, lol. Obviously, I didn't quite know what that meant at the time, but I then watched the movie every day until I was literally like 12-13. Then I figured it out 😂😂😂
Oh my god, Hannah. I am 30 seconds into the video and I have never felt truer words spoken directly to my soul. I came out in 2018, literally one single month before I met the man that would become my husband. I spent years thinking “well, duh I’m straight. I’m into men.” No, girl. There are so many moments in my life where I was drawn to girls in my class that I can now say were crushes. I knew bisexuality was a thing but I didn’t understand any of it. Megara from Hercules, Shego from Kim Possible and Quinn from Glee were my core memories. Idk bitchy girls are hot. Not sure what that says about me lmao
Hey Hannah! I follow your vocal channel and just discovered this one, and I just want to say, as a gay man who's like 99.99 percent gay, Jessica Rabbit has made me question my sexuality more than once so I totally get it 🤣 She's so freakin hot and just her grace and seductive charm are off the charts! Also, Gaston from Beauty and the Beast was definitely one of my huge gay awakenings, despite his insanely mysogynistic and self centered personality haha.
ERES!!!!!! THANK YOU omg I freaking love Sinbad and she is one of the reasons she's an amazing and chaotic villain and I wanted her celestial bathtub with the all of the bubbles everywhere.
I’m a lesbian, but I only realized when I was 26/27, so I relate so much to these childhood moments that you don’t fully understand until you’re an adult. 😂 I recently watched the Apple TV show “Severance”, and the first time I saw one of the actors in it, I knew it was the actor who played Kissing Kate Barlow in Holes. I knew specifically from her mouth, teeth, and the way she talked. And that’s when I realized I had a huge crush on that character when I watched that movie as a kid and it just didn’t register at the time. 🤦♀️😂
Big ones for me were Tauriel from the hobbit, and Catherine Zeta Jones from the legend of Zoro…like that scene with the flirty fight??? Had my jaw on the floor ALWAYS
I LOVE mythology and Eris is one of my favourite mythological figures, and I have the DVD of Sinbad still, because the only other time I think any show/movie mentioned her was in like Xena/Hercules, where they called her Discord. So seeing her be the central figure like she was in Sinbad was so cool to me, but also, the voice cast was all like A-list stars, so it's so weird to me that so few people watched that movie or that it wasn't more popular.
Love getting these Hannah stories that are relatable ❤. I had a few bi awaking ladies but my first one was Sarah Michelle Gellar from Buffy. And then Harley Quinn Poison Ivy.
When you said no Disney princesses made the list I was over here yelling "HOW IS JASMINE NOT ON THIS LIST?!"... I'm so glad you changed your tune on this. There's also one other clip besides the red outfit that's a CORE awakening moment for me ;)
I used to have the Sinbad movie on dvd and im CERTAIN that that movie was my bi awakening. The amount of times I rewinded the Eris scenes, good grief. Sinbad himself was the begining of my pirate crush phase. THE MERMAIDS SCENE. ERIS' BATHTUB SCENE?!?!?!? And don't get me started on Marina, I know she's not that popular but holy shit. My response to my atraction to women as a kid used ro be aggression, like it made me feel things and didnt know how to face it so i did so negatively. So Sinbad was a huge exception for me because I LOVED every single character in that movie.
I love that so many of us bi women had similar experiences! I think because girls in general are more open about complementing each other, i just assumed feelings i had didnt mean anything and it was how everyone was feeling but i can recognize now all the times i had a crush on another girl. I’m a bit older than you, but some of my core moments are Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman and that one scene in Xena where her and Gabrielle were bathing together in a pond. I was/am obsessed with Lois Lane and Clark Kent as a couple, and they are exactly my type, nerdy men and strong women.
AHHH SINBAD LOVED IT also 90's kiddo here [side note: two years younger than you i believe] oh dearie TiVo the epitome of '90s xD i wanna see your anime picks for awakening :3
I am cracking up over y’all’s reactions to the Toxic music video because the same thing happened to me!! (For me it was the whole flight attendant scene.)
I'm younger than you, so it's a little hard for me to relate to some of these. However, I agree wholeheartedly with your Emma Watson one. I started watching Harry Potter when I was just a little kid, and I consider her to be my first crush. My little crush on her as a baby child 100% helped make me into the raging nerdy lesbian I am today lmao
I watched Sindbad till I remembered all of her lines 😅 I had many of the same ones, but also Esmeralda, Kida from Atlantis and Meg from Hercules. As for singers, it was Shakira for me😂
Oh man, most of your list was also my list when I looked back at my favorite characters from my youth and they were all gorgeous ladies... hilarious. The only one that's coming to mind right now that you didn't include is Kida from Atlantis the Lost Empire! When she takes off her skirt wrap thing before she and Milo go swimming and Milo goes "yeah I swim pretty girl- uh... pretty good" I have never related to something more lmao!
A lot of yours on the list were also awakenings for me, but another one is the princess (I don't remember what she was actually called besides princess) that was in the bathtub in 13 ghosts. I only realized that one like a week ago, but I didn't know why I loved that movie so much, but I think that's definitely one of the bigger reasons 🤣
Not a girl but I am a bisexual man. My bisexual awakenings were: Vampire Xander from that one Buffy episode where he and Willow were Vampires in an alternate reality. I can’t really explain it, he was just so evil and hot in that leather jacket and the Vampire make-up. Yeah. Varric Tethras from Dragon Age 2. He’s a badass dwarf with a crossbow who basically just strolls into Hawke’s (the protagonist) life and becomes best friends with them. Damn shame we can’t romance him. Kaidan Alenko from Mass Effect. He’s just such a chill dude who gets migraines from an outdated biotic implant that gives him superpowers (basically). Just a cool dude but he’s straight in the first Mass Effect. However, my dream would come true in 2012 when I could finally romance that boy as a man (though I would rarely do it lest someone walk into my room and see my bisexuality). Rick Grimes from the Walking Dead. He’s just so bloody hot. Especially in seasons 4-5 when he’s all beardy and aggressive. Yes. All the yes. Draco Malfoy. I like bad boys. What can I say? His story of being pulled between good and evil is so cool. Spike (also from Buffy). I don’t think I need to say why but basically he’s a punk rock blonde Vampire who’s suuuuuch a bad boy. I love him and his story of going from an evil monster to a hero with a soul. Kurt (or Kirk for you) and Blaine from Glee, both of them are just so hot. They have great voices and I could just sit and listen to them for hours as they serenade me. Klaus from the Vampire Diaries. What a hottie and another blonde bad boy. I love him. However, my feelings lessened after watching the Originals, he’s less daddy to me and moreso father if that makes any sense. Just seeing his growth made me respect him too much to lust for him. Dean Winchester from Supernatural. I’ve been watching Supernatural since I was a literal toddler so when I was a child I thought I wanted to be Dean, I even ended up dressing like him into my teens (basically dressing like a lumberjack in England lol) but no, it was bisexual love. Stu Macher from Scream. Portrayed by Matthew Lillard, Stu is (spoiler alert) one of the original two killers in the horror classic and he’s such a cheesy psycho but if find him so weirdly attractive I just can’t help myself with the villains. I legit wanted him to win (“liver alone!” “I’ll be right back!” I love his quotes) There’s a lot more but there’s some of mine. Thank you for sharing yours, seeing other bi men and women online has really helped me come out to my friends and family.
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