Jonathan Bailey & Matt Bomer Talk Religion & Being Openly Gay in Hollywood

Jonathan, on religion and identity:

“It took me a long time to dismantle it and to question what I was being told. Religion is interesting because it’s the voice of the shame but also [a source of] relief. There was this person that I could speak to—and I definitely did have that full conversation with a higher power. But the contradiction is brutal. To really lean into that as a gay kid who’s not born into a gay family, you see both sides of what religion can provide, which is scathing judgment—as I felt it looking back—but also a real space for catharsis and nourishment.”