Heartstopper's Mr. Ajayi the Context of 'Don't Say Gay' | The Mary Sue 

Contents:

• I CAN’T STOP THKG ABOUT ‘HEARTSTOPPER’S’ MR. AJAYI THE CONTEXT OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ AND I WANT TO SCREAM
• ‘YOUNG GAY PEOPLE BEG OUT AND HAPPY? IT’S REVOLUTNARY!’ MEET THE HEARTSTOPPER GENERATN
• ‘HEARTSTOPPER’: INSI THE GAY TEEN ROM-COM EVERYONE IS SWOONG OVER
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

I CAN’T STOP THKG ABOUT ‘HEARTSTOPPER’S’ MR. AJAYI THE CONTEXT OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ AND I WANT TO SCREAM

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. 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.

‘YOUNG GAY PEOPLE BEG OUT AND HAPPY? IT’S REVOLUTNARY!’ MEET THE HEARTSTOPPER GENERATN

"The bate about thentic stg is still ongog - should gay rol only be played by gay actors, for example? Heartstopper foc most of s story on Charlie (Joe Locke), an out, gay, Brish teen wh a massive csh on his schoolmate Nick (K Connor).

‘HEARTSTOPPER’: INSI THE GAY TEEN ROM-COM EVERYONE IS SWOONG OVER

) Part of what mak such a betiful story is that foc as much or more on the wholome gidds of teen csh as do the difficulti of beg a gay teen. He is a gay adult who offers Charlie a safe space to be himself and to be at peace. Defenrs say the “Parental Rights Edutn” bill is signed to protect young children om “groomg” and “doctratn” to liberals’ gay/trans agenda or whatever.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

This is a gay adult talkg to a gay teen about his romantic life, even gog so far as to offer extremely basic (and necsary) advice. Aimed primarily at a younger dience, the show is about an openly gay male sixth former at an English prehensive (played by 18-year-old Joe Locke) who falls love wh the school’s most popular gby player the year above. By the time – episo eight – the two ma characters had tly fallen for each other, teenage Blackpool FC footballer Jake Daniels had e out; he was the first gay male profsnal footballer to do so sce Jt Fashanu 1990.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

A week after Fashanu me out more than three s ago, his own brother – fellow footballer John – all but disowned him: “John Fashanu: My gay brother is an outst” read a headle The Voice. When I left school, jt over a ago, LGBTQ+ societi were credibly unmon: my sendary tn began only a year after sectn 28 was repealed, legislatn which banned lol thori and schools om “promotg homosexualy” any form. Wh mut, one sixth-former, Ada, is tellg me how a heteronormative society, spac n by and for queer people – such as their school’s active Gay Straight Alliance – are important plac for self-exprsn and personal stunt shar reflectns on their own experienc: 18-year-old Greg reunts his disfort his prev tn settg, a fah school, while holdg hands wh his now boyiend; Milo, a non-bary sixth-former, was readily accepted by most rners of the school muny wh ltle send Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian“I had a really posive experience of beg queer when I was younger, ” says Amy, a fal year pupil.