Simply lovely.
Yep, people definitely convinced themselves he was "past" this sort of thing. They saw him get that MP role and assumed that this meant he was now going to be publicly allowed to be out and queer. "If he's playing a gay role in a movie, why can't he say he's queer IRL" seems to be the logic applied. A lot of people failed to realize that taking a gay role might itself lead to the "necessity" of a beard during that project
yeah i have yet to feel like harry is coming out and this includes 2015 when EVERYONE on here thought he was seconds away from coming out. i didnt see it then either (although I didn't think we'd get babygate either).