It’s true that many of us became gay from watching gay movies, but it is also true that many of us became gay from watching movies that were ostensibly not gay, but felt gay in such a way that they, in turn, made us gay. This phenomenon was especially present in the 90s, as covered in Which ’90s Movie Made You Gay?, but anthropologists agreed that it continued, in limited amounts, through the early 2000s. Which brings us to this very important quiz:
Quiz: Which Early ’00s Movie Made You Gay?
Riese
Riese is the co-founder of Autostraddle.com as well as an award-winning writer, video-maker and LGBTQ+ Marketing consultant. Her work has appeared in nine books, magazines including Marie Claire and Curve, and all over the web including Nylon, Queerty, Nerve, Bitch, Emily Books and Jezebel. She had a very popular personal blog once upon a time, and then she recapped The L Word, and then she had the idea to make this place, and now here we all are! In 2016, she was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism. She grew up in Michigan, lost her mind in New York, and now lives in Los Angeles. Follow her on twitter and instagram.
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April 23, 2023 at 7:19 amHow did you know I used that Destiny’s Child lyric as an AIM away message REPEATEDLY in middle school!
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emsApril 23, 2023 at 7:51 am
I got Thirteen and rather ironically the homophobic girls at school loved this movie hahaha
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April 23, 2023 at 10:14 am
I got Mona Lisa Smile, which I saw in theatre (NOT willingly), but the real answer is Bring It On, followed by Bend It Like Beckham and Ghost World!
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April 23, 2023 at 10:40 amGhost World! I’ve never seen it, but i guess I should
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fridaxApril 23, 2023 at 10:40 am
Yep, Charlie’s Angels was the one I opted for, and the one I got. Perfect. 😀
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April 23, 2023 at 10:51 amI didn’t see Mona Lisa Smile coming but…I’ll allow it.
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April 23, 2023 at 11:12 amGhost World, which I’ve never seen, but it WAS the name of my cabin at A-Camp the last time, so there’s that.
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LeeApril 23, 2023 at 11:19 am
Hahah! In 2002, aged 17, I watched “Chicago” twice in the movie theatre because I thought Velma (played by Catherine Zeta-Jones) was sooo pretty. (I also saw “40 Days and 40 Nights twice that year in cinema because I thought Erica/Shannyn Sossamon was extremely pretty, even though the movie was terrible.) And now, 21 years later, I find out that “Chicago” made me gaayyyyy! How fitting!
I had no idea I was gay back then, and no one else did, even though I had more obvious material in my room than Megan did in “But I’m a Cheerleader.” When I saw that intervention scene aged 26, I thought: “They could have done that with my room, too!” But everyone in my life back then was wayyyy too heteronormative to even consider this a possibility. I’m glad I figured it out though!
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April 24, 2023 at 8:53 am
ok, well Marina did not make me gay, but i have certainly revisited the issue positively…
thank you, Riese.
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April 23, 2023 at 12:33 pmI got Bend it Like Beckham, which I actually didn’t see for the first time until pretty recently, but definetly would have made me gay/made me gayer
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April 23, 2023 at 12:44 pmSpambot alert – https://develop.autostraddle.com/quiz-which-early-00s-movie-made-you-gay/#comment-2274340
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FreshApril 23, 2023 at 12:55 pm
Bend it like Beckham which fits ha ha. I can’t tell you how many times I have seen it and how much I wanted Jess and Jules to be a thing!
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April 23, 2023 at 3:39 pmI got Chicago, but the real answer is Charlie’s Angels. I rewatched it last year and, hoo boy. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize until years later, when I watched But I’m a Cheerleader, somewhat ironically with my high school boyfriend. (did he know before I did?? hah)
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M.April 23, 2023 at 4:36 pm
Thirteen has burned itself into my brain. I was so young when it came out that I didn’t even fully comprehend what it was about and it left a big impression. I was fascinated, it awakened something in me that I did not know how to place, and I kind of buried this movie and its effects in my subconscious until very recently where I saw something about it and it was like…wow. This is such a gay movie, no wonder it did what it did.
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SarahApril 23, 2023 at 7:36 pm
I have strong feelings that Sugar & Spice was not included in that final question. What’s more gay than planning a bank robbery with your cheerleading squad?
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April 23, 2023 at 8:58 pmAssuming that the last question is the full extent of the options, then the actual correct answer is “none of the above, as I have yet to see any of them, also I identified as asexual until the late 2000s anyway” but what I did get was “Mona Lisa Smile”, for whatever that means.
My actual movie influences probably were “Aimee & Jaguar”, “Better Than Chocolate”, “But I’m a Cheerleader”, and “Fucking Åmål”, all of which are late 1990s movies, but I didn’t actually see them until about a decade after they came out.
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SlyApril 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
Maria Bello in ‘Coyote Ugly’ (and honestly ‘E.R.’ as well, and just… Maria Bello wholesome…) always be my top trier.
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April 23, 2023 at 11:54 pmI got ghost world which I’ve never actually seen but it has Scarlett Johansson so it can’t be that wrong.
The real answer is of course the tATu video clip for All the things she said. Schoolgirl outfits in the rain? That awakened something in 14 yo me.
(PS: as someone who is extremely bad at faces, is it possible to add the names of actors to quizzes like this? I tend not to recognize them if they changed hairstyle or glasses from something I’ve them in, and that makes it hard to pick one.)
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NicoleApril 24, 2023 at 7:22 am
Chicago made me gay…
I mean, the costumes, all those high kicks and splits (Cell Block Tango)I think that you would have done the same!
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dianahApril 24, 2023 at 10:32 am
Saved! tbh. Cassandra’s whole Thing was very important. But the answer is really 95% of these movies to some degree, plus DEBS and Pirates of the Caribbean.
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LauraApril 27, 2023 at 7:46 pm
Ditto.
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TtApril 24, 2023 at 12:37 pm
Charlys Angels is correct but not because of Cameron Diaz!!! When Lucy Liu was in that film!!!
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BananaphoneApril 24, 2023 at 4:28 pm
Mona Lisa Smile makes sense. I spent much of the early 2000’s watching movies that had only women in the promotional poster just in case … y’know …
Come to think of it… that’s basically how I pick movies to this very day! Thanks, Autostraddle!
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CApril 25, 2023 at 4:53 am
I got Mona Lisa Smile and while I do like that movie, D.E.B.S was the one that helped me buy a clue. That and always holding my breath whenever t.A.T.u’s All the Things She Said aired on MTV.👀
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April 27, 2023 at 2:12 am
Missy Pantone is gay, right? I mean there’s no other explanation for the vibe, the tatt, the easy use of the word ‘dykeadelic’…. right?
Also, it was probably actually Charlies Angels: Full Throttle, in which (blatantly queer-coded) Demi Moore actually licks the entire face of Cameron Diaz in a scene I remembered so clearly that when it was on TV recently and skipped over it I had to go and stream it to make sure
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MJApril 28, 2023 at 12:17 pm
I got Ghost World, which I’ve never seen but I guess I need to now. Blue Crush and Bend It were truly my awakenings. I mean, Michelle Rodriguez in board shorts? Enough said. Even when I thought I was straight, I would fast-forward through all the boring hetero bits. That should have been a sign…
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Aria MoApril 28, 2023 at 5:29 pm
Actual answer… my INTENSE ADMIRATION of Jeri Ryan as 7 of 9.. and her bodysuit… And her acting of course!
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April 23, 2023 at 7:19 am
How did you know I used that Destiny’s Child lyric as an AIM away message REPEATEDLY in middle school!
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emsApril 23, 2023 at 7:51 am
I got Thirteen and rather ironically the homophobic girls at school loved this movie hahaha
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April 23, 2023 at 10:14 am
I got Mona Lisa Smile, which I saw in theatre (NOT willingly), but the real answer is Bring It On, followed by Bend It Like Beckham and Ghost World!
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April 23, 2023 at 10:40 am
Ghost World! I’ve never seen it, but i guess I should
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fridaxApril 23, 2023 at 10:40 am
Yep, Charlie’s Angels was the one I opted for, and the one I got. Perfect. 😀
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April 23, 2023 at 10:51 am
I didn’t see Mona Lisa Smile coming but…I’ll allow it.
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April 23, 2023 at 11:12 am
Ghost World, which I’ve never seen, but it WAS the name of my cabin at A-Camp the last time, so there’s that.
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LeeApril 23, 2023 at 11:19 am
Hahah! In 2002, aged 17, I watched “Chicago” twice in the movie theatre because I thought Velma (played by Catherine Zeta-Jones) was sooo pretty. (I also saw “40 Days and 40 Nights twice that year in cinema because I thought Erica/Shannyn Sossamon was extremely pretty, even though the movie was terrible.) And now, 21 years later, I find out that “Chicago” made me gaayyyyy! How fitting!
I had no idea I was gay back then, and no one else did, even though I had more obvious material in my room than Megan did in “But I’m a Cheerleader.” When I saw that intervention scene aged 26, I thought: “They could have done that with my room, too!” But everyone in my life back then was wayyyy too heteronormative to even consider this a possibility. I’m glad I figured it out though!
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April 24, 2023 at 8:53 am
ok, well Marina did not make me gay, but i have certainly revisited the issue positively…
thank you, Riese.
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April 23, 2023 at 12:33 pm
I got Bend it Like Beckham, which I actually didn’t see for the first time until pretty recently, but definetly would have made me gay/made me gayer
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April 23, 2023 at 12:44 pm
Spambot alert – https://develop.autostraddle.com/quiz-which-early-00s-movie-made-you-gay/#comment-2274340
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FreshApril 23, 2023 at 12:55 pm
Bend it like Beckham which fits ha ha. I can’t tell you how many times I have seen it and how much I wanted Jess and Jules to be a thing!
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April 23, 2023 at 3:39 pm
I got Chicago, but the real answer is Charlie’s Angels. I rewatched it last year and, hoo boy. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize until years later, when I watched But I’m a Cheerleader, somewhat ironically with my high school boyfriend. (did he know before I did?? hah)
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M.April 23, 2023 at 4:36 pm
Thirteen has burned itself into my brain. I was so young when it came out that I didn’t even fully comprehend what it was about and it left a big impression. I was fascinated, it awakened something in me that I did not know how to place, and I kind of buried this movie and its effects in my subconscious until very recently where I saw something about it and it was like…wow. This is such a gay movie, no wonder it did what it did.
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SarahApril 23, 2023 at 7:36 pm
I have strong feelings that Sugar & Spice was not included in that final question. What’s more gay than planning a bank robbery with your cheerleading squad?
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April 23, 2023 at 8:58 pm
Assuming that the last question is the full extent of the options, then the actual correct answer is “none of the above, as I have yet to see any of them, also I identified as asexual until the late 2000s anyway” but what I did get was “Mona Lisa Smile”, for whatever that means.
My actual movie influences probably were “Aimee & Jaguar”, “Better Than Chocolate”, “But I’m a Cheerleader”, and “Fucking Åmål”, all of which are late 1990s movies, but I didn’t actually see them until about a decade after they came out.
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SlyApril 23, 2023 at 11:19 pm
Maria Bello in ‘Coyote Ugly’ (and honestly ‘E.R.’ as well, and just… Maria Bello wholesome…) always be my top trier.
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April 23, 2023 at 11:54 pm
I got ghost world which I’ve never actually seen but it has Scarlett Johansson so it can’t be that wrong.
The real answer is of course the tATu video clip for All the things she said. Schoolgirl outfits in the rain? That awakened something in 14 yo me.
(PS: as someone who is extremely bad at faces, is it possible to add the names of actors to quizzes like this? I tend not to recognize them if they changed hairstyle or glasses from something I’ve them in, and that makes it hard to pick one.)
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NicoleApril 24, 2023 at 7:22 am
Chicago made me gay…
I mean, the costumes, all those high kicks and splits (Cell Block Tango)I think that you would have done the same!
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dianahApril 24, 2023 at 10:32 am
Saved! tbh. Cassandra’s whole Thing was very important. But the answer is really 95% of these movies to some degree, plus DEBS and Pirates of the Caribbean.
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LauraApril 27, 2023 at 7:46 pm
Ditto.
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TtApril 24, 2023 at 12:37 pm
Charlys Angels is correct but not because of Cameron Diaz!!! When Lucy Liu was in that film!!!
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BananaphoneApril 24, 2023 at 4:28 pm
Mona Lisa Smile makes sense. I spent much of the early 2000’s watching movies that had only women in the promotional poster just in case … y’know …
Come to think of it… that’s basically how I pick movies to this very day! Thanks, Autostraddle!
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CApril 25, 2023 at 4:53 am
I got Mona Lisa Smile and while I do like that movie, D.E.B.S was the one that helped me buy a clue. That and always holding my breath whenever t.A.T.u’s All the Things She Said aired on MTV.👀
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April 27, 2023 at 2:12 am
Missy Pantone is gay, right? I mean there’s no other explanation for the vibe, the tatt, the easy use of the word ‘dykeadelic’…. right?
Also, it was probably actually Charlies Angels: Full Throttle, in which (blatantly queer-coded) Demi Moore actually licks the entire face of Cameron Diaz in a scene I remembered so clearly that when it was on TV recently and skipped over it I had to go and stream it to make sure
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MJApril 28, 2023 at 12:17 pm
I got Ghost World, which I’ve never seen but I guess I need to now. Blue Crush and Bend It were truly my awakenings. I mean, Michelle Rodriguez in board shorts? Enough said. Even when I thought I was straight, I would fast-forward through all the boring hetero bits. That should have been a sign…
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Aria MoApril 28, 2023 at 5:29 pm
Actual answer… my INTENSE ADMIRATION of Jeri Ryan as 7 of 9.. and her bodysuit… And her acting of course!