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BABY-SITTERS CLUB REBOOT FEATUR TRANS CHILD, GAY DADS

BABY-SITTERS CLUB Reboot Featur Trans Child, Gay Dads. One episo featur a transgenr child, and other episos mentn that a character has gay dads. The topics of homosexualy and genr inty e up equently.

One of the characters on the show has a gay father and Facetim wh him and his signifint other. Mary Anne is biracial, Dawn is Latx, and Dawn’s dad is gay. Dawn’s dad is gay and a relatnship wh another man.

COULD THE BABY-STERS CLUB HAVE BEEN MORE GAY?

There’s a reason the books remd so much of ourselv, even though there aren’t any overtly openly gay characters may jt have to revis The Baby-Sters Club now that we know this, Ann!

This is an allegory, but ’s also te: I grew up Chelsea, the Manhattan neighborhood that was, at the time, the center of gay life New York. When he died, 1996, I was ne years old and had still never heard the term gay.

I was thirteen when I was fally emed old enough to be told who our fay was openly gay. Such was the cultural gnive dissonance around homosexualy the neti. To say was a transnal perd do not beg to pture the weirdns of growg up ternalizg the ia that gay people were servg of rights, worthy of social acceptance, and outrageoly appropriate to discs ont of children.

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BABY-SITTERS CLUB Reboot Featur Trans Child, Gay Dads .

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