Bill Loves David Stollery!

My first gay crush was actor David Stollery.

"Spin and Marty" was an inclusion in the "Mickey Mouse Club" around 1955.

The setting was a perfect fantasy: A summer camp and a dude ranch with horses.

Spin was masculine, but my crush was on Marty, the blond, boyish, effeminate outcast.

Spin was also from a poor urban family, who "spins" the lasso well. 

So basically, Marty was the femme to Spin's butch, the sissy spoiled rich kid. Gradually, Marty learns to become "one of the guys."

Other guys I've talked to mostly liked the more manly Marty. So this one is still a little embarrassing among my bear friends. 

Everything was basically a secret in my family, including this crush of mine, so keeping this a secret was no problem. I also liked several other boyish, 1950's TV guys, including Dean Jones in "Ensign O'Toole" and Jackie Cooper in "The People’s Choice."

As an actor, David Stollery played several Disney roles, then went to art school and designed cars, including the 1978 Toyota Celica.  

Bill - Eagle Rock, LA CA

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Jack Loves Tim Considine!

My first gay crush was 50's teen actor, Tim Considine.

At my age, the straight world might call me an 'old-timer.'

In gay terms, I guess that makes me a fossil? Thus, I imagine few others would remember my first gay crush?

And back in the 1950's, my mom worked at a time when few mothers did, so I often came home to an empty house.

Rather than playing ball outside with other kids, I ran home to watch TV, absorbing what the world was going to be for me.

While I eyed several of The Mousketeers on "The Mickey Mouse Club," my heart truly belonged to Tim Considine. He also played Spin on TV's "Spin & Marty."

As I was shipped off to YMCA camp every summer, that was more fertile ground for forming crushes. And the experience of bunking with other boys cemented my self-casting as Marty. He was the not-cool, self-sufficient kid whose buddy knew his way around. And who wore jeans that actually fit.

And for sure, Tim Considine gave me a funny feeling in the groin area. 

Although, there was that friend of my dad who drove a Harley and wore boots and leather, too. But that's a whole other story altogether...

Jack - Upstate, NY
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