{"id":277733,"date":"2025-11-04T16:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/?p=277733"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:34:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:34:19","slug":"jonathan-bailey-sexiest-man-alive-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/video\/jonathan-bailey-sexiest-man-alive-gay-277733","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Bailey is the first openly gay \u2018Sexiest Man Alive\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-article-kik\">The tight pants wearing \u201cWicked\u201d star earned the honour this year. But what other sexy queers should get the nod one day?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jonathan Bailey is the first gay \u2018Sexiest Man Alive\u2019 | Xtra Magazine\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DR_3LHxMWP4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Get ready to shout \u201cFIYERO!\u201d from the rooftops: Jonathan Bailey is <em>People<\/em>\u2019s \u201cSexiest Man Alive\u201d for 2025.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former<em> Bridgerton<\/em> star is the first openly queer man to be named<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jonathan-bailey-is-sexiest-man-alive-2025-11842000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u201cSexiest Man Alive.\u201d <\/a>And there\u2019s no doubt he deserves it. But it\u2019s also wild that he\u2019s the first gay man to get the nod in the 40 years <em>People<\/em> has been dolling it out.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the actual mechanics of who is named sexiest and why are not necessarily objective, it\u2019s still a fun thought experiment to ponder what other gays have missed out over the yers. No love for Andrew Scott? Ricky Martin? You\u2019re telling me that in 2024 John Krasinski was sexier than Colman Domingo?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-end\">We break down what you need to know, along with some other contenders for the crown to keep things queer in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tight pants wearing \u201cWicked\u201d star earned the honour this year. But what other sexy queers should get the nod one day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1177,"featured_media":277738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"editorial_slug":"1922","_editorial_slug":"1922","exclude_from_latest_block":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6,10],"contributors":[1933],"topic":[1922,114],"clients":[],"series":[],"timeliness":[58],"editorial_format":[2088],"type-of-work":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277747,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277733\/revisions\/277747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277733"},{"taxonomy":"contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributors?post=277733"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=277733"},{"taxonomy":"clients","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clients?post=277733"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=277733"},{"taxonomy":"timeliness","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/timeliness?post=277733"},{"taxonomy":"editorial_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial_format?post=277733"},{"taxonomy":"type-of-work","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type-of-work?post=277733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}