Is Jonathan Bailey Gay? How About His Character on 'Bridgerton'?

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• BRIDGERTON'S JONATHAN BAILEY TALKS BEG AN OPENLY GAY ACTOR WORKG TODAY
• IS JONATHAN BAILEY GAY? BRIDGERTON SEASON 2 STAR'S RELATNSHIP DETAILS AND BOYIEND RUMORS!

BRIDGERTON'S JONATHAN BAILEY TALKS BEG AN OPENLY GAY ACTOR WORKG TODAY

In Bridgerton Season 1, we meet a closeted gay artist! But Bridgerton Season 2, all we got were a few extras actg, well, extra, and the subtext that some of Benedict’s fellow art school stunts might be gay.

Benedict, wh his gay art iends, and Eloise “I Want More Than to be a Wife” Bridgerton were givg off “closeted baby queer” vib. There were hop that maybe Benedict’s gallivantg wh Sir Henry Granville (Julian Ovenn) would precipate a gay dalliance for the bohemian Bridgerton or that Eloise would realize she loved, say, Penelope. That said, there are a few other characters wag the wgs and Julia Qun’s future books who uld also gay thgs up future seasons of Bridgerton….

IS JONATHAN BAILEY GAY? BRIDGERTON SEASON 2 STAR'S RELATNSHIP DETAILS AND BOYIEND RUMORS!

There is one nonil gay supportg character who shows up Julia Qun’s later books, but there’s also a key love tert who hontly giv off big pansexual energy. Michael Stirlg is not gay the Julia Qun books and yet he seems to give off the most nonilly queer vib. Could Any of the Bridgertons Get a Gay Happily Ever After?

Will none of the Bridgertons ever be gay?!? My vote for the gay Bridgerton siblg, though? You n easily see that as a gay love story!

Ever sce readg the character breakdown for young Agatha Danbury (Adjoa Andoh), to be played by Arsema Thomas, I n’t help but wonr if Lady Danbury’s big love story — the one she boasted about to Kate Sharma — is gog to be a gay one. When asked about his experience as a gay actor, Jonathan revealed that a iend and fellow actor, who is also openly LGBTQIA+, was told durg pilot week; "There’s two thgs we don’t want to know: if you’re an alholic or if you’re gay. It’s jt there had never been a need to talk about , " he the same terview, he also discsed the stigma which still fac LGBTQIA+ men the entertament world, sayg; "There’s a sense of shame, I thk, that’s palpable throughout gay men wh the dtry.

Speakg to Attu, he relled that the procs volved; "[T]hkg about my experienc and those of my iends, how they are and how they see themselv gay culture, what we aspire to and where we want to be our relatnships. The 33-year-old Bridgerton star, who portrays Anthony Bridgerton on the Netflix h, opened up about his experience g out as gay a new profile wh GQ.

Thkg back to the early days of his reer, Bailey relled how one of his actor iends was once told durg pilot season, "There's two thgs we don't want to know: if you're an alholic or if you're gay. Though Bailey's Bridgerton character intifi as straight, the actor has prevly argued that gay men should be able to play their own experienc on the screen.

"I thk shouldn't matter at all what character people play, but of urse, there is a narrative that's very clear, that openly gay men aren't playg straight leadg rol, " he told Digal Spy December 2020. "And also, there's a reason why gay characters are so tertg. Bee much like the women Bridgerton, there are a lot of hurdl and there's a lot of self-growth, and there's a real strength to gay men.

Bailey ntued, "So the fact that a lot of straight men have gone on to play inic gay rol and to be ld for that is fantastic, that that story is beg told.

But wouldn't be brilliant to see gay men play their own experience? Jonathan is openly gay and he talked about beg an out gay actor some new terviews. “I thk shouldn’t matter at all what character people play, but of urse there is a narrative that’s very clear, that openly gay men aren’t playg straight leadg rol, ” Jonathan told Digal Spy.

“And also, there’s a reason why gay characters are so tertg.