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LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
Am I gay? It was October 31, and the Brish actor, then 18, was the middle of shootg the send season of Heartstopper, the young-adult Netflix romance seri which he plays Nick Nelson, a bisexual-but-hasn’t-realized--yet jock who be the primary love tert of the central character, the gay misf Charlie (played by Joe Locke). He’s got a supportive mother (the great Olivia Colman, also seen the first season; “Dog a scene wh her is gog to teach you more than a year of drama school, ” Connor gh) and a tense dynamic wh a homophobic brother.
I put the seri, based on Alice Oseman’s graphic novels, on the background while assemblg furnure (very gay, I know) and I was transfixed. The path om “I’ve only ever met one openly gay person before” to planng a triple date is swift. Charlie was outed the prev school year, but has now e to his own and claims his gayns fortably.
Popular jock is aggrsively homophobic and bulli feme gay boy, all while sexual tensn simmers. Fally, they fd themselv alone and the attractn explos an illic sexual pa, which the outwardly straight athlete turned sexual aggrsor reveals himself to be secretly gay.