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Ngozi Ukazu's charmg, cheerful webic about a gay llege hockey player has been llected book form. Check, Please! stays squarely on the bright si of life, a brave choice s own way. * check please gay hockey *
Is very much a thg of our time s approach to gay inty and romance. Protagonist and narrator Eric "Bty" Btle, a gay llege hman, is fortable his sk a way that was impossible to image jt a few years ago. There's no big g-out scene, no "nvert the lone homophobe" drama, no storyle oked up jt to te the rear about the gay experience.
There's a quatns to Ukazu's approach, but bee this is a gay teen romance, has an edge.
Review of Check, Please! a webic followg a young gay man as he navigat llege, hockey, and iendship. * check please gay hockey *
But bee both wrer and rear know the dark reali that — spe all recent progrs — gay kids face, Bty's story has ntext and portent. Ukazu uld have overtly addrsed issu like the suici rate among gay teens. It's fun to watch Bty grow up om a hman to a sophomore, though you might feel a pang when he cuts his hair.