This is something a friend sent to me in an email in regards to the need to defend Jake's sexuality as being straight. I have to agree with it whole heartedly.
To me, if you really accept all identities and sexual orientations, then saying Jake is bi/queer is the same as saying he was born in California. Not something he can change, a fact. Not slander or libel, a compliment.
And when the person I fought with tried to tell me that I was being unrealistic about "what that would do to his career," I reminded her that we don't control Jake's career from a message board owned by some guy in Denver.
To say that it's damaging to speculate that Jake is bi is participating in the bigotry that killed Jack.