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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.

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.

COULD THE BABY-STERS CLUB HAVE BEEN MORE GAY?

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. Gay people were, of urse, nonexistent children’s entertament. In the neti, the Scholastic dtrial plex would sooner have published a bomb-buildg manual than clu an openly gay character.

And amid all this edgy chasty there was Ducky McCrae, the only boy and only bona fi high schooler (a sophomore) the re st. Readg the California Diari is like an endls game of Taboo which the secret word is always gay and time always ns out. (Sp-off book Megamorphs 4, Tobias: “Was really te that [this cultlike anizatn] didn’t re if you were young or old, male, female, black, whe, Asian, Christian, Jew, Mlim, Buddhist, atheist, straight, gay, rich, or poor?

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