And if you’ve watched the third season of the hit Netflix Regency-era series, you might be wondering if Benedict Bridgerton is gay. So it only feels right to show all the ways in which people love, including queer love. So we are exploring queer love stories across the next couple of seasons,” she told Refinery 29.”I don’t want to say exactly how that plays out. But it was important to me to foreground queer love and to tell queer stories and tell stories about queer joy as well.”Is Benedict Bridgerton gay? While Benedict Bridgerton’s sexuality isn’t stated in the books, showrunner Jess Brownell and actor Luke Thompson have confirmed that Benedict is pansexual.