kontextmaschine:

The thing is really someone coming from outside an established Hollywood family when Jake Gyllenhaal did would not have had either the necessary connections or the dynastic instinct to cover up his bisexuality

There is, or at least at the time was, a Hollywood pressure against “outing” people that was less about what it would mean in any particular circumstance than just preventing an “outing”-based paramedia ecology from establishing itself in the first place