Basically every meta that discusses Dean’s bisexuality brings this scene up, and for good reason. Yes, Dean blatantly checks out the soldier and ignores the woman walking the other direction. That much is obvious. But there’s more in this shot, and I’m not just talking about the tan trench coat in the window.

Look at that diner across the street, the Early Bird Diner. Glossing over the implications of the phrase the diner is named for (”the early bird gets the worm”), it’s interesting that they chose this name, especially in a scene where Dean ogles a man.

Birds are used the world over as a symbol for homosexuality (x). In Latin American cultures, gay men are called birds (the word differs by region, but they all mean some variation of bird). Faygeleh is the Hebrew word for bird, and it it has come to mean the same in American Jewish culture. And then you have constant bird references in Western culture beginning with Plato and found up through recent times (remember the film The Birdcage?).

I know many people think things like this are coincidence, but in reality they aren’t. Every bit of set design is intentional, especially something as large as a backdrop. Entire crews are assigned to set design. The name of this restaurant wasn’t chosen at random, nor was the trench coat, and if the director didn’t want Jensen to appear to check out a male, he would have directed it that way.