Jonathan Bailey is one-half of the most-talked about gay couples on television—that would be as Tim Laughlin opposite Matt Bomer's Hawkins Fuller in the eight-part Paramount Plus series Fellow Travelers. But though Bailey & Co. have gotten great notice for the roles and the queer representation they offer, the actor relayed a harrowing story in which he experienced homophobic harassment while in Washington, D.C.
The seemingly perpetually busy actor—who is also part of the star-studded Wicked cast and will reprise the role of Regency-era heartthrob Anthony Bridgerton in Bridgerton Season 3—detailed the distressing encounter in a December profile in The Standard. Bailey told the outlet that he was in D.C. attending an annual event for the LGBTQ+ organization The Human Rights Campaign when the incident occurred:
