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Contents:

• IS JONATHAN BAILEY GAY?
• BRIDGERTON'S JONATHAN BAILEY TALKS BEG AN OPENLY GAY ACTOR WORKG TODAY
• WHO DO BENEDICT BRIDGERTON MARRY AND IS HE GAY?
• BRIDGERTON: SO… BENEDICT’S NOT GAY?
• WHO IS BENEDICT BRIDGERTON? IS HE GAY?

IS JONATHAN BAILEY GAY?

Speakg wh GQ UK, Jonathan Bailey, who is openly gay, discsed the challeng of addrsg his sexualy publicly. “At the time he was told, ‘There’s two thgs we don’t want to know: if you’re an alholic or if you’re gay…’ All tak is for one of those people that posn of power to say that, and rippl through… so, yeah, of urse I thought that.

While he was publicly out before Bridgerton, beg a proment gay actor  a major streamg TV show n serve as a step towards improvg this reprentatn Hollywood. 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. Speakg to GQ, he said that an 'actor iend' told him: "There's two thgs we don't want to know: if you're an alholic or if you're gay.

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

He explaed: "The most nservative nversatns I’ve had about me beg hont about my sexualy this day and age have e om gay men the dtry, ‘Oh, no, you n’t e out. There’s a sense of shame, I thk, that’s palpable throughout gay men wh the dtry. 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.

WHO DO BENEDICT BRIDGERTON MARRY AND IS HE GAY?

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

BRIDGERTON: SO… BENEDICT’S NOT GAY?

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.

WHO IS BENEDICT BRIDGERTON? IS HE GAY?

Dpe the fact that the star equently plays straight characters, he’s openly gay, so their outg was purely a platonic one. He's a gay man, playg a straight man wrten by a woman.