I can so relate to being "woken up" by watching Sailor Moon. My first girlfriend got some really crappy RealMedia rips on CD (aaaagh, that was so long ago!) and more or less forced me to marathon it. It took all of three episodes to be hooked. Neptune and Uranus completely stole the show in season 3, they were just...amazing, and somehow managed not to be Mary Sues.
But my biggest ship was and still is Ami/Makoto. Ami was the one I could instantly relate to in a lot of ways and oh gods Makoto is gorgeous. And they're basically canon if that scene from the school dance in SuperS is any indication. It was really surprising to see that from something out of early 90s Japan. I owe Takeuchi Naoko my awakening and self-realization, and probably a lot of gay and bisexual women my age do...