This profile is part of Queerty’s Out For Good series, recognizing those who came out to make a difference. The series will run throughout October in honor of National Coming Out Day on October 11.
Name: Jake Choi, 26
Bio: Born in New York to Korean-American parents, Choi moved to Los Angeles to pursue a Hollywood career. He got his start as an Abercrombie model before transitioning to acting, where he gained notice for his role in the film Front Cover and on the sitcom Single Parents. He will next appear in The Sun is Also a Star, which comes out next year.
Coming out: Choi played an out-gay man in Front Cover, which caused him to rethink his own sexuality. Choi revealed that he’s “sexually fluid” in an interview in Very Good Light: “Back when people questioned if I was gay after the move, I was like, ‘No, No.’ But after I did Front Cover, it made me think. A lot. Am I really living my truth?”
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Making a Difference: Following his role in Front Cover, he started asking himself hard questions. “What does it mean when I’m talking to a guy and connect with him emotionally with intimate energy?” he wondered. “Maybe it’s not just sexual but it could be. Maybe, shit, I’m attracted to everything. Maybe it’s more feminine or more androgynous. I realized yeah, I’m fluid. It’s not black or white. It’s grey.”
Words of Wisdom to Queerty:
“I think coming out is a force for good because it helps inspire and empower other people to live their own truth, and to understand and embrace their own identity. This world is constantly thrusting at us ideas and images of who and what we should be, and what “normal” is. So many people change themselves in order to conform to the standards imposed by society, without ever questioning whether the standards are fair or right or justified. Coming out helps break free of those conventions and archaic views. I came out without even planning to during the interview with Very Good Light, to be frank. But it felt good.”
Lacuevaman
someone better send the aspca to save minipin….
also, never heard of this person.
Librain
Nothing in this article suggests mistreatment of his dog. What are you even talking about?
frankcar1965
The dog is cuter than he is!
Hussain-TheCanadian
Everything = makes and females = bisexual
Mystery solved……..I’d do him
Hussain-TheCanadian
Males and females*
theafricanwiththemouth
That’s how i see it too.
“Sh1t! I’m attracted to everything” = “Sh1t! I’m attracted to males and females” = “Sh1t! i’m bisexual!”.
But hey, he can do as he likes, just that stuff and statements like this become way too absurd sometimes. That other one (Keynan?) wants to be referred to as “Tree”, lol, i’d rather not even interact with you than go through such a silly form of mental torture.
tham
Back in grammar school we’d have Sex Ed. They would say “sexuality is on a spectrum, and you move back and forth on that spectrum all the time”. Some days you feel like a nut…some days you don’t.
People, that was 20 years ago.
So why are we all “ooooo and aweeee over a 20something parroting a Sex Ed course from the 1990s?”
tham
Oh and the tattoos…so sad he went down that path. He would have been soooo much sexier without them.
Tats change someone from being “boyfriend” material to “oh gosh, I hope I don’t get a STI from this guy”
Tattoos are edgy…gay + edgy usually means STI.
Creamsicle
Did you recently emerge from a 1950s time capsule? Tattoos are just a form of personal expression. Tattoo parlors are much more reputable than they were back in the day, and blood borne diseases are not a concern as long as you’re not getting a kitchen tattoo from some “beginning artist,” who bought a needle set online and wants to tattoo his friends and family with zero training. Simply having a tattoo is not indicative of someone’s behavior, and I personally know multiple people with PhDs who proudly display their tattoos.
If you stopped to think before you posted your comment, I’m sure that you would realize that you know many respectable people with tattoos, easily visible or otherwise.
Donston
We really do need to stop with the hyperbole every time someone comes out as anything. These extreme reactions is part of the reason many people don’t want to legit be out and don’t want to be legit honest about who they want to be with. We also need to stop looking at “gay” as some basic, one-dimensional and old-fashion thing, while everything else is “edgy”, “groundbreaking” and “unique”. Beyond the hype for a fluid identity this is not a “re-definition”. Many people for decades (including famous people) have talked about their sense of self changing throughout the years, having attractions that are all over the place and how their attractions and romantic feelings morph. This stuff is very typical for most “queers”. And hell, even most gay-identifying people are bi or “fluid” in some ways. They just usually have larger and more persistent same-sex passion, romantic fulfillment and/or relationship contentment. Most gay-identifying celebs are not homo. And perhaps most people (certainly most “queers”) are on a “spectrum”.
Lacuevaman
does anyone really read your shit on here?
Donston
Well, you do. And it obviously makes you feel even more like an insecure troll than you are.
Lacuevaman
actually I don’t. I did at one time but then I started scanning to see if you had anything new… and you never do. not sure who you are or who you represent but you and your ilk’s posts are consistently shallow, singly focused on politics, never hopeful and representative of those that want to sissify queendom. I am harsh. I am crude but I am most def open.
Look under your bed. they are coming for you. just saying.
Donston
I cop up to being fairly sociopolitical on a site that frankly doesn’t really warrant it. But your hatefulness and dismissive attitude (ain’t nothing “harsh” about it) is actually the most redundant and predictable thing is these comment sections. As well as your constant alternative handles. Also, your obsessive despising of “queens” actually makes you come off like the paranoid one. And no one takes not a thing you say seriously, nor do they find anything you say particularly clever. It’s kind of ironic since you always come off as a prototypical bitter sissy.
Lacuevaman
multiple handles? NOT, I’m the same old me.
I also love it when you cry to the Queerty editors to “police” the site. I think they do a fine job. Shut up and get back on the porch and lick your empty ballsac.
the queen perhaps doth protest too much methinks. …eh?
Lacuevaman
sorry, sissify “queendom”.
Lacuevaman
well hell!!!! QUEERDOM!
Prax07
Agree about the tats. They instantly make a guy go from hot to scummy.
skeldare
So he’s bisexual/pansexual. Cool
nitejonboy
Not crazy about the tattoos, but he is beautiful. I have such a thing for Asian men.
o.codone
I do too.
salumbre
This is actually a not-coming out and not-news at all. More and more male celebrities feel lately obliged to say, “I would have no problem sleeping with a guy, IF I were attracted to him” –IF being the operative word. Are we living in such a terrible, bigoted, polarized world that just saying, “I’m open-minded” seems newsworthy? Well, maybe we are.
He’s good in the movie, by the way.
djmcgamester
I actually love that more people are coming out as bisexual. It’s chipping away at that idea that everyone has to have a “confirmed” sexuality – a this or that. That would start breaking down all the barriers we have (which are greater than ever given the number of “categories” that we’ve recently seen appear).
jcoberkrom
He says he attracted to everything. What about old white men? Hey, hey hey, it doesn’t hurt to ask!