On Tuesday February 19, our favorite Canadian heartthrobs Tegan and Sara are playing a show at New York’s Beacon Theatre. If you’re not already going, it’s too late because that sucker is sold out. However! Thanks to the good people at Bowery Presents, we’ve got two golden balcony tickets to give away to one lucky reader.
In the spirit of throbbing hearts, we’re drawing the winner TONIGHT. That means these are not just the hottest tickets in New York town- they’re also the world’s greatest Valentine’s gift for the Tegan and Sara fan in your life. You’re gonna get so much love. I hope you’re ready for that.
How To Enter
1. Leave a comment telling us who your first heartthrob crush was. If you also write us a haiku poem about it, we’ll put your name in the hat twice.
2. Comment using a valid email address because that’s how you’ll find out if you’ve won. The winner will be picked at random today, Feb 14 at 11pm EST and notified immediately.
If you don’t win, don’t fret. Tickets are still available for their show at the Beacon on the following night. In fact, tickets are still available for many Tegan and Sara shows throughout the United States, Canada and Australia. Who’s already going? I just bought mine for Sydney, being a T&S ticket-holder feels SO good.
Good luck!
Oh god, weirdly enough my first big crush was on Sailor Pluto when I was like, five. I should have realized I wasn’t straight back when I realized my interests lay in the length in her short skirt. Does that count as a heartthrob? She was hot as shit.
Short black sailor skirt
Milky white thighs underneath
Whoops, don’t think I’m straight.
Badass Trinity,
You hacked the code of my heart
Neo’s NOT ‘the One.’
My first and ongoing heartthrob crush is on Clea Duvall. I remember first watching But I’m a Cheerleader before coming out and I can safely say that Clea is my root. She just exudes this dykey charm that as my gf says, has somewhat defined my “type.”
My first in person crush was on this amazing (autostraddler) in HS who without trying just screamed cool dyke. My heart kinda melted.
Oh hey there Jessie!!!
This is so adorable.
Yes Clea Duvall!
My first heart throb crush was Chad Allen.
We used to play tag
Then you went through puberty
Tag, you’re ass is it.
My first heartthrob crush, if this counts (?), was Tara Lipinski, the figure skater!
My first crush was also my first girlfriend. Her name was Epiphany. I swear I am not making this up.
My first hearthrob crush was Nelly Furtado circa 2002 (no judgement!) I hung her picture in my room and lusted after her hard.
This Lady songbird
Adorned my walls and voila
Baby queer is born
Needs no explaining
Jonathan Taylor Thomas
Biebs of the nineties
Buffy the Slayer
At the end of the day
She slayed my damn heart.
BOOM.
shiny purple shoes
each one of your personas
drives me crazier
Long hair, don’t care
Say you look like a woman
Well that explains a lot for me
Zac Hanson haiku, for the 10 year old lesbian
This is truly the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever admitted, but my first hearthrob crush was Orlando Bloom as Legolas in Lord of the Rings. Someone got me a cardboard cut out of him for my 13th birthday and I kept it in my room for YEARS. That long, blond hair with the braids in it…why did I think I was straight?
Oh, Legolas was
Only the first of many
Genderqueer crushes
You are not alone. Only it was my 16th birthday, and I kept him in my closet and called him the Guardian of My Wardrobe. My girlfriend still teases me about crushing on a guy who looked like a girl… (but he was so hot! and he could walk on snow and shoot multiple arrows at once!)
(I don’t need tickets, I just wanted to share…) :)
oh yes, another Legolas crusher right here! I thought my crush was on Orlando Bloom until I saw him in a non-elf role and felt “huh, well, hmmm”
Well, here goes:
My first heartthrob crush
Was, of course, obviously
Captain Jack Sparrow
No, not just Johnny Depp. But Johnny Depp as a grimy, slimy, sneaky pirate in some kind of permanent state of drunkenness. Yum.
Mine was Sporty Spice! Also maybe how I figured out I was a big homo.
My first Heartthrob crush was Jenny Shimizu, and she’s still the most perfect specimen.
Jenny Shimizu tongued down Angelina
She made my eyes pop out of their socket
What I would do to take off her leather jacket
My first crush was Britney Spears after watching her in the music video for Baby, Hit Me One More Time.
Oh Britney, Britney,
those pigtails and school girl skirt,
you made my heart hurt.
First heartthrob crush: Daniel Radcliffe
There’s something about
A boy that knows his magic
They say he’s “The One”
Keira Knightley.
When I was just five
The Power Ranger in pink
Made my gay heart throb
P.S. I already have tickets so you don’t need to put my name in the hat. I just wanted to write a haiku.
David Bowie
The tightest of pants
Androgyny at its best
I have a weird crush
Shakira, Shakira!
I was thirteen when
‘Oral Fixation’ came out
and thus so did I
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/3111218/Shakira+Oral+Fixation+Tour+2007.jpg
My first heartthrob crush was Megan Follows in Anne of Green Gables. I blame this for the affinity for spunky, literary redheads.
And of course, I accidentally used the wrong email address. Minus 50 points for me.
Scary Spice! Actually, I’m sure I poured my heart out into some eloquent kid-speak poems in my 4th grade journal over all the spice ladiezz.
secret crush of mine
stole my young heart when she wore
that leopard jumpsuit
Call me JTT
Loving those long golden locks
Hair of my dream girl
Britney Spears
the giant poster
of Britney Spears in my room
should have tipped them off
frizzy locks brown eyes
your neuroses spoke to me
hermione g
though, arguably, jack sparrow was also my first crush.
self assured bastard
but drunken swagger aside
eyeliner is hot
All my first crushes
Androgynous boys I knew
First red flag of gay
My first heart throb was my next door neighbor; I was in first grade. We rode the bus together every day. It all makes sense now-
We played house after school
I always the husband you the wife
Your love saved my life
hey, all of those male
elves from lord of the rings look
like women…oh wait.
Oh Taylor Hanson
Beautiful, blonde flowing locks
Maybe I like girls?
When I was younger
My bulletin board was filled
With nsync’s Justin.
So fugly, he’s cute
Backstreet Brian stole teen heart
Then found out he’s gay
Abroad in China
She had polka dotted hair.
I almost kissed her.
My first heartthrob crush was Jennifer Knapp.
when I was a deeply religious girl in denial about my sexuality
and, apparently, so was she (http://www.autostraddle.com/jennifer-knapp-pastor-bob-43109/)
is it blasphemous
if I say “I want to know you
better than I do”?
For N
Tooth marks etched into straw
My eyes transfixed on open lips
Your knowing smiling glance
Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully in The X-Files. Something about that red hair and those shoulder pads…
my field hockey coach
was so hot ngh ngh ngh nghh
(bad stereotype)
Indiana Jones:
five o’clock shadow
sexy hat, loves history
has a whip- ‘nuf said.
oooh, I had a crush on that blonde Austrian Nazi-lady. That scene, where he’s tied to a chair and she kisses him and pulls his lip out to there? *swoon* I’m always looking for a woman who can kiss me like that.
as the leaves fell
so did she into my life
throb throb went my heart
This is our first valentine’s day not together… pity points = an extra name in the hat? :)
T&S are my biggest heartthrobs though!
sporty and spicy
her barbed wire tat “drove me wild”
tell me what you want
i see what you did there
My first crush was the teacher in Matilda, the way she was written in the book AND the movie portrayed her.
Miss Honey. I think Jennifer Garner played her in the movie.
I had all these feelings and yes, my heart throbbed, and I didn’t understand it when I was 11 but now I do.
Oh Nick Carter…
Backstreet’s Nick Carter
Rock your body right for me
With those frosted tips
Whatever happened to him anyway?
Jennifer Beals/Bette Porter
L word changed my life
i thought i wanted to be her
wait, let’s go have sex
darlene conner, oh!
you made watching roseanne all
the more confusing.
In 8th grade I swore that I was meant to marry Jesse McCartney…
Jesse McCartney,
Sang about beautiful souls,
He wrote it for me.
Guy from the princess
bride, no one told me you were
too girly a crush
I watched that movie way too many times in middle school.
Jackie was her name
What a lovely name it is
Oh god, she’s a girl
My first girl crush since coming out, in Haiku form!:
Jennifer Lawrence
She is a fabulous and goofy
Lady of beauty and class
Lance Bass was my first.
It makes a lot more sense now.
We’re both huge homos.
I’ve been a lurker here for a while, but okay, for T+S, I have to…
Back to School:
That night on your couch
I let you think I was drunk
I was a coward.
Track pants and tank tops
My lil’ heart melted for you
Sporty Spice forever
Middle school: evil. But
You were a ray of hope with
really shiny hair.
My first crush was on the kindergarten teacher who taught the class across the hall from the one I was in. I wrote her what took me ten years to realize was a love letter, but was so nervous and scared that I asked a girl on the bus to give it to her in my stead.
It was written in crayon, and the one gem of a quote that I remember including is “YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE I HAVE TO PEE.”
I can only imagine how that was interpreted.
Oh, Miss Patterson
I could share my apple juice
With someone like you
muse..oh muse..
hidden..
light dawns..
..where have you been?
light dawns..
now i begin
Good Luck all! I already bought tickets during the presale for T+S and FUN at Red Rocks ^_^ Will be my first T+S show. Muy excited y’all!
Out of the closet
Because of Shane McCutcheon
I’m a damn cliche.
Justin Timberlake:
loved him until he lost his
feminine hairstyle
p.s. this show is on my birthday! double entry!
Oh Sandra B, you
Sped out from under that bus
and into my heart.
DEBBIE GIBSON!!!!
Way before Britney,
I got Lost in Your Eyes, girl.
It is love I’m in!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkTzWb8tsj4
Hey Dude Melody,
felt you more than in my ears —
now I’m gay, dude. Hey!
I may be sixteen,
but i know that all of you
A-Straddlers freed me
Tegan and Sara ftw :) Thank you, A-S members, for helping a little kid like me– you’re all my hearthrobs ;)
Daniel, gifted class.
Teen soap soundtrack in my head.
Look how that turned out!
Shane the heart breaker
The D.J had you fallin’
Love never an option
scully FTW.
red hair, skeptical:
scully, don’t debunk my heart!
I want to believe.
hermione granger!
she resembles a goddess
i just want to kiss
her full, luscious lips
Might sound like a lousy anime, but the first time my heart beat abnormally because of the presence of a magical and wonderful woman was in my junior year of high school. She was the student council president, with long black hair, beautiful smile and a voice that can calm you and own you at the same time. I was fifteen, she was seventeen, and the only time we shared together was in some monthly gathering of honor students. I couldn’t believed I liked her. I loved her, but she never knew.
Peaceful and quiet
Two rows in front of me
Junior year girl
You still haunt my sleep
Taylor Hanson.
Clearly, should have been a sign that I actually liked girls, way back when I was 11.
Jessica Rabbit lol
hot cartoon lady
you make me feel tingly down there
wow i’m super gay
I saw Heather Graham
first in “Austin Powers 2:
The Spy Who Shagged Me”
this contest is inspiring so much creativity
It was for sure Raquel from the Real World/ Road Rules Challenges!
Sinead O’Connor
Obsessed as a little girl
…Belts “Nothing Compares 2 U”
<3 Happy V-day Autostraddlers!
Akito from the manga Fruits Basket
Akito the man
my first gender bender girl
what are these feelings?
Joey McIntyre!
new kids on the block
hangin’ tough was my fave jam
joey’s baby blues …OOF
Beverly Crusher,
I’m no Jean Luc Picard, but
Let’s make it so (hot)
first crush: camp counselor
My partner in crime,
Secret heartthrob of my youth,
Childhood best friend.
She liked sk8er bois,
Long hair and black eyeliner,
From the northern land.
I don’t need tickets, just want to share: Miss Scarlet from the old Clue movie. I watched it over and over and over again.
Who won these tickets? Take pictures so I can live vicariously through you!
In the library
with the candlestick, please, please
take me, Miss Scarlet!
ha! just came to me.