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

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.

"The bate about thentic stg is still ongog - should gay rol only be played by gay actors, for example? Overall, 's clear that Charlie is very unfortable wh takg up space someone else's tak que a b of work for Nick to nvce Charlie that he needs to apologize ls often for simply existg as a gay person and wantg to experience a love story.

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He hat his group of iends but don't thk he has any agency to leave them behd or stand up to their equent homophobic, problematic statements.

Gays and lbians have been ndned to not stand up to homophobic ments time and time aga, whereas bisexuals have been basilly erased om existence due to a fear of beg misunrstood. RELATED | 9 Gay & Queer TV Shows to Watch This Sprg. Netflix revealed the st for their live-actn adaptatn of Alice Oseman's gay g-of-age graphic novel Heartstopper.

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”'It's about right and wrong':Disney's ex-CEO Robert Iger criciz Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' billSuccs of queer creators, rise of streamg platforms promote queer youth televisn“Heartstopper, ” which follows lovtck schoolboys Nick and Charlie, was created and wrten by queer thor Alice Oseman. 'Heartstopper':Why you should make time to watch Netflix's sweet, queer YA romanceRaven-Symoné and 'Raven's Home' stwalk off Disney set to prott 'Don't Say Gay' billLGBTQ visibily youth televisn giv queer youth a ‘toolk’Last month, an elementary school teacher Florida was placed unr vtigatn by the state Department of Edutn after she showed her stunts the Disney animated film "Strange World, " one of Disney's first films to have an LGBTQ character a central role, as part of an Earth science lson. Here's how to show 2022:Disney CEO (fally) speaks out on 'Don't Say Gay' bill.

But where's the gay Disney fairy tale? Comg off a year of bullyg om classmat who disvered he was gay, Charlie (Joe Locke) experienc a HEARTSTOPPER of a new csh when he claps ey on Nick (K Connor) at school.

The charmg same-sex romance, which began (and ntu) life as a thrice-monthly web ic, follows openly gay Nick and gby player Charlie as they bee unlikely iends and, eventually, disver they have feelgs for one another. 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.

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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. 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. “Young, Brish gay people beg out and happy? Havg spent 14 years workg at the club var paci, she has seen huge shifts the way clivy at the club is implemented: at every level, players and staff have attend Football v Homophobia ssns and trag, and 2018, Leeds Uned was the primary sponsor for the cy’s Pri events.

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Staff never e homophobic language, when at one stage they might well have done whout thkg about . ” On multiple ocsns, young Leeds players have reported homophobic language om opponents on the pch to refere, who haven’t always taken any actn.

There’s no nyg much has changed sce Queer As Folk, the seri he wrote about three young gay men livg Manchter, was first released 1999.

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