You can keep asking Jack Falahee if he’s gay in real life but he’s still not going to answer

About six months ago when he was still an unknown actor, whether or not Jack Falahee’s is gay or straight or somewhere in between was not one of the burning questions of our time.

Now apparently it is thanks to his breakout character of Connor Walsh – a sexy gay lawyer who gets plenty of action – on ABC’s How to Get Away With Murder.

Jack refused to answer the sexuality question last week for Out Magazine (‘No matter how I answer, someone will say, “No, that’s not true,”‘) and now he’s doubling down on not answering.

‘The way we frame the conversation around sexuality is maybe not the best,’ he tells Instinct. ‘That’s why I was adverse to answering that question.

‘To answer how Jack Falahee defines his sexuality undermines what is being achieved by showing a character like Connor Walsh,’ he adds. ‘Connor Walsh is unabashedly who he is because he’s confident in who he is. He doesn’t need to answer to anyone, and that’s okay.’

Falahee finds the question about someone sexuality problematic in general.

‘It’s really tough to assume that heterosexuality is the norm and that we are now forcing people to come out of closets,’ he says. ‘As soon as we can reconstruct the way that we view sexuality as a society, then this won’t be a conversation.’

He points out that if he were playing a straight man on the show, there would not be this same level of interest in his own sexuality.

‘You look at an actor who plays James Bond, and you don’t ask him if he’s gay or straight — or even the other men on my show. There’s no conversation being had about it, it just happens to be that I’m playing a gay man. So it seems really undermining to the greater cause.’