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Contents:

• BRIDGERTON: SO… BENEDICT’S NOT GAY?
• WHO IS BENEDICT BRIDGERTON? IS HE GAY?
• WHO DO BENEDICT BRIDGERTON MARRY AND IS HE GAY?
• WILL ‘BRIDGERTON’ SEASON 2 ACTUALLY DELIVER GAY CONTENT?
• 'BRIDGERTON' STARS TALK GAY ACTORS IN STRAIGHT ROL AND ASIAN INCLN!
• BRIDGERTON QUEEN GOLDA ROSHVEL WAS WARNED BEG OPENLY GAY WOULD HER REER
• THE HISTORIL CASE FOR A GAY BRIDGERTON

BRIDGERTON: SO… BENEDICT’S NOT GAY?

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…. 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.

WHO IS BENEDICT BRIDGERTON? IS HE GAY?

Michael Stirlg is not gay the Julia Qun books and yet he seems to give off the most nonilly queer vib.

WHO DO BENEDICT BRIDGERTON MARRY AND IS HE GAY?

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?

WILL ‘BRIDGERTON’ SEASON 2 ACTUALLY DELIVER GAY CONTENT?

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. The royal servicemen are servicg each Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story has fally troduced to the popular media anchise two explicly gay characters who actually have a lot of screen time and their own storyl to be we had gotten some blk-and-you-miss- reprentatn of gay men on the flagship Bridgerton seri, the Queen Charlotte prequel seri featur two more fully-realized characters: Brimsley, the Queen’s secretary (played by Sam Clemmett), and Reynolds, the Kg’s secretary (played by Freddie Dennis) only are the characters gay, but they have recurrg storyl the seri and are known for sneakg out to have sex whenever they to appearg on Queen Charlotte, Clemmett was bt known for appearg films and TV shows like Cherry, The War Below, and Enavour.

Benedict’s flirtatn wh artist Sir Henry Granville the first season of Bridgerton seemed to ht that Lady Vlet’s send olst son might be gay or, at the very least, bisexual. Acrdg to shownner Chris Van Den, the sparks that flew between Benedict and Henry Season 1 were never meant to suggt that the former was gay.

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.

'BRIDGERTON' STARS TALK GAY ACTORS IN STRAIGHT ROL AND ASIAN INCLN!

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. It suggted that the send elst Bridgerton might actually be gay — or, at the very least, bisexual.

And their anger seems well placed light of shownner Chris Van Den recently givg an terview and sayg that the character's storyle Season 1 was not meant to suggt he was gay and that was a "nsc choice" not to have his sexualy be fluid Season 2. That uld even expla why Benedict's gay pal is nowhere to be seen this season; he's much easier to leave out than to ed out. Is Benedict Bridgerton Gay?

He is clearly fascated by Granville’s homosexualy but apart om terviewg Sir Granville, nothg else happens season 1 to suggt that Benedict is gay himself.

BRIDGERTON QUEEN GOLDA ROSHVEL WAS WARNED BEG OPENLY GAY WOULD HER REER

So n be assumed for now that Benedict is not gay. 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.

THE HISTORIL CASE FOR A GAY BRIDGERTON

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? Back the first season of Bridgerton fans were left wonrg if the send elst Bridgerton, Benedict, was perhaps gay or bisexual followg what was a seemgly flirtat relatnship wh artist Sir Henry Granville.

"Bee of the world they habed, was still a hangable offence to be gay, and was jt not possible. The first season of Bridgerton hted at potential LGBTQ+ storyl for Benedict and Eloise but they weren't built upon season 2 and fans are disappoted by the lack of queer Benedict Bridgerton gay?