Jack Falahee for OUT Magazine (answer gay/straight question)
Despite playing one of TV's hottest new openly gay characters, the HTGAWM hottie won't confirm if he's gay or straight in real life.
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"I don't think answering who I'm sleeping with accomplishes anything other than quenching the thirst of curiosity. And moreover, it seems reductive," he told the mag. "It's been really interesting to be in the middle of the industry's fascination with the individual, because I never thought about that growing up or when I was at acting school. No matter how I answer, someone will say, ‘No, that's not true.' We still live in this hetero-normative, patriarchal society that is intent on placing everything within these binaries. I really hope that—if not in my lifetime, my children's lifetime—this won't be a question, that we won't need this."
"I don't think answering who I'm sleeping with accomplishes anything other than quenching the thirst of curiosity. And moreover, it seems reductive,"
But seriously, I don't know why he wouldn't just say he was or wasn't. This whole "I don't want to claim one or the other" movement by celebs recently isn't really helping representation in the least.
Whilst his answer is fair in principle, that angle always comes across as "I'm gay/bi but don't think it's time to come out yet" or "I'm straight, but being ambiguous is working for me".
But seriously, I don't know why he wouldn't just say he was or wasn't. This whole "I don't want to claim one or the other" movement by celebs recently isn't really helping representation in the least.
