Proper Full-On Gay Podst - A Heartstopper Podst by Shut Up World : Shut Up & Listen: Books
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‘YOUNG GAY PEOPLE BEG OUT AND HAPPY? IT’S REVOLUTNARY!’ MEET THE HEARTSTOPPER GENERATN
“I’m havg a proper full-on gay crisis.” So shar Nick, one of the protagonists Netflix’s betiful “Heartstopper,” a tale about Charlie, a gay high * gay crisis heartstopper *
Charlie and Nick - played by newer Joe Locke and Rocketman actor K Connor - are subjected to homophobic bullyg by Nick's so-lled (Yasm Fney), a transgenr teen, has recently moved om the boys' grammar school where all her iends are, to the girls' equivalent, after also sufferg cel, who has a built up a big followg on TikTok, postg about her experienc of beg a young, black transgenr woman the UK, endured difficulti at school source, NetflixImage ptn, Elle fds hard to make iends at her new school at first"For me, school was the same. "The bate about thentic stg is still ongog - should gay rol only be played by gay actors, for example? For Gary, 59, the show is a tharsis for moments his own life growg up gay, like when someone outed him to his fay.
Ajayi (Fisayo Aka) is an openly gay teacher Heartstopper. And her 15-year-old protagonist, Charlie, was openly gay, which meant the plot didn’t beg wh the character agonizg over his sexualy. Reamg the queer g-of-age experience as, simply, g-of-age may seem like a subtle shift, but helps illumate how the emphasis on g out has perhaps limed queer my lleague Spencer Kornhaber observed 2018 of the wave of die films about queer teenagers, cludg Call Me By Your Name and Boy Erased, “It’s cur that an age of unprecented visibily for LGBTQ muni, the queer teens chosen for the cematic spotlight appear so allergic to, well, seemg gay … Whether the implied assiatnist impulse reflects the filmmakers’ or the characters’ utn is up for bate.
In her rearch for her book, Growg Up Queer: Kids and the Remakg of LGBTQ Inty, Robertson worked wh an LGBTQ youth center, speakg wh teenagers who poted out that “beg gay wasn’t always their biggt problem, ” she told me. If the gay-rights movement ially emphasized narrativ about pri and learng to embrace one’s sexual inty rather than hidg , today’s teenagers look for more varied pictns of queer life.