What is your root? The reason for your sexuality, the moment that changed you into a quare forever? Yes, that is my tongue in my cheek. However, anyone who has seen But I’m a Cheerleader will get the comic reference to your root. So what is yours? Was it the moment you saw kd lang on the cover of Vanity Fair? Was it when you picked up a hammer for the first time and thought, “I may be 2, but this fits”? Was it when you decided that poetry was how you believed all emotions should be expressed, but only when embroidered on homemade wicker baskets?

I asked the grrrls in Gaelick Towers, who was it who turned you into a mo/bi and was inundated with embarrassed references to, among others, an Elton John song, an obscure French Canadian singer and confusion about an 80′s TV character.

The Mistress of the Web:

Our boss (she hates when we call her that) has a certain interest in Justine Bateman (above, right) in Family Ties, what lesbian in the 80′s didn’t? She is also unashamed of her love for the lady who played Nikita in the video of the Elton John song. “I liked the uniform, and she looked so cold, I just wanted to warm her up”. By my calculations, our Webbie would have been 12, which is a late starter by our standards.

Gooner:

We have us some confusion here. Now, in her mind’s eye Gooner sees a completely different person to the one I found on her description. Maybe you can help her out.

I know exactly who the first woman I was attracted to. She was a guys girlfriend on Midnight Caller and was only in a few episodes, she was bi and had AIDS if I remember right. I remember asking my mam what bi was and telling her I must be that lol.

After some research I found Kay Lenz from the episode After It Happened but Gooner insists that ain’t her. Help us people! Maybe it’s just a case of rose-tinted glasses, considering she was just 11.

CanuckJacq:

This is what you get when you have people from other parts on your team. A whole new world of roots! Mitsou was a cutie on Canadian yoof television and made quite the impression on our young Jacq.

There was also My 7th grade teacher — Mademoiselle Boudreau wore the most scandalous clothing and I’d get dizzy when she leaned over my desk to help me with my schoolwork. I needed a lot of help that year.

Ah, some things are universal.

Annie Aura:

Our AA was always one for a getting into the saddle and going for a ride. Ahem.

I have no idea! Was probably one of the women in the Western films that used to be on when I was a kid. Grace Kelly in High Noon perhaps. That’s where my obsession with cowboys and horses came from. I wanted to be a cowboy, I still do really!

Grace Kelly? Not a bad choice at all. Much classier than Doris Day in Calamity Jane or Jane Fonda in Cat Balou.

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For Clickey there was no TV show, no singer, no film star. No, like any good Leo, it was all about her hair.

Around the age of five, I insisted on a short crop.  The mammy obliged, and some poor unfortunate hair dresser was tasked with lopping off all my pretty blonde curls.  (S/he was only the first of many, as I’d invariably grow back my hair, and eventually at some point want it all shorn again.)

When I was about four years old, I refused absolutely and point-blank to wear ever skirts or dresses again.  I think (apart from school uniforms – which bothered me no end) I kept to this prohibition until maybe my late teens.  The Debs ended it, probably.

Only a wee babóg and she was putting her (tiny) foot down! Colour me impressed.

HAL:

I am embarrassed. During my childhood people of a certain persuasion were drooling over a woman scantily-clad in a bikini-suit which looked strangely like the American flag. She had super powers and fought for our rights in her satin tights. Did I go for her? No, I went for the dirty blonde in flares. I must have been about eight when The Bionic Woman came to Ireland and I was hooked.

Bear:

Our Bear knew immediately who her root was and you have to say, the young lady had some excellent taste.

Ali McGraw in The Winds of War. And then later, Ali McGraw in anything else she was in. I hadn’t realised until a few months ago, I was reading an article about her and then it all came flashing back to me! Talk about your big gay breakthroughs…

Cherry Bomb:

Women came into Cherry’s life quite early. She actually remembers when she was two!

I think it was either the constant staring at the bra/swimwear section of the Family Album from the age of 2 or when I started first year in secondary school and I saw a girl with the most startling, lovely blue eyes I’d ever seen, I’m sure the latter was the defining moment really!

Then I remember coming home from school really upset to my mam am at age 13, telling her, her simply saying don’t tell anyone at school as they wouldn’t understand and when I told her I was gay but upset because I thought I still liked boys she told me it’s okay and normal to like both

Irish mammies really are the most wonderful of the species. I have to disagree though, I think the Family Album had much more to do with it than the girl with the gorgeous blue eyes

Slayer:

Our sometimes poster Slayer wins with this wonderful addition:

Police Academy 4 – there was a girl in it and I thought she was so beautiful. I had no idea how to describe it because I didn’t think at the time that you could use the same language as you would about boys so I told my sister I wanted “to eat her up”. I was about 4 or 5 at the time I’d say.

Any idea who/what/when your root was?

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