Gay male middle schoolers, munist rhetoric and advice to fish homework before you "summon the vil." Wele to season two of Netflix's The Baby-Sters Club, released on October 11.
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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. It was difficult for a mastream middle gra seri to e outright and say a character was gay. The seri featured a character named Ducky McCrae, a high school sophomore who jt didn’t f wh the other boys at school and preferred to hang wh the girls.
Jt a few of the many exampl of queer reprentatn the show: Mary Anne babyss a transgenr girl named Bailey, a character named Alex reveals to Stacey that he has a csh on a boy, Dawn’s dad is gay, Cldia’s sister Jeane has a girliend, and Dawn says that she don’t believe labels and se herself open to fallg love wh anyone on the genr spectm. For stance, I absolutely loved this post om The Niche which all 131 Baby-Sters Club books are ranked by gayns. Prr to the release of 2020’s Baby-Sters club reboot, a BSC fan on Autostraddle got real about “who all’s gay.
COULD THE BABY-STERS CLUB HAVE BEEN MORE GAY?
” She speculat that Kristy is probably gay, and of urse, lots of other fans agree.
“She and her partner, Tori, started up a gay softball league when they moved to Baltimore 1999, which Kristy ach. Sadly, although many fans have speculated that the BSC’s lear Kristy Thomas is queer, not even the latt Netflix seri has rpond to the fan mand for Kristy to be nonilly gay. So maybe the next Baby-Sters Club reboot will fally give fans what they want and make Kristy gay?