It’s my take that Jude had always been trying so hard impress Oscar, and the other males in his life, in the role of a son, because of Oscar’s absence that he didn’t even think to try to connect the dots to the fact that there might be an other reason why he’s particularly keen on impressing men. Men like Oscar (the men that Jude has likely has spent all of his life trying to gain approval from as a son figure) place high value on a woman’s beauty, desire to stake a claim to it (look at how nervous he was around Marcus Douglas, and bravo to Zero for knowing that he had boast about his man, because Jude would be too modest to properly assert himself in front of a guy like Marcus), and are often homophobic. Jude asking Raquel out was conceivably the culmination of seeking validation directly from Oscar (Raquel was stunning and well within Oscar’s normal line of sight on regular occasions), bowing to the growing pressure that his subconscious was putting on his psyche due to his underlying attraction to Zero, and the reactionary repression these factors cause in the vicious cycle that self-acceptance can be. You’re right, though, Nony, it is a little strange that it appears as though Jude hadn’t even started to question his sexuality until seemingly his mid-to-late twenties.

Marcus Douglas is flawless.

I hear his hair's insured for $10,000.

I hear he does car commercials... in Japan.

His favorite movie is Tron: Legacy.

One time he met John Stamos on a plane and he told him he was pretty.