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Heartstopper: 'How the series helped me open up about my sexuality in later life'
Entertainment reporter
Runaway Netflix hit Heartstopper was a huge hit with teenagers when the first series came out last year.
But while it may have been targeted at a younger audience - just like Alice Oseman's hugely popular graphic novels series of the similar name - it ultimately had a much broader appeal.
The series centred around the blossoming same sex relationship between school friends Charlie Spring (Joe Locke) and Nick Nelson (Kit Connor).
The storyline follows Nick's coming out journey as he realises he is bisexual and series two, which drops on Netflix on Thursday, will follow Charlie and Nick's deepening romance.
For the young LGBTQ+ community, Heartstopper is about representation, individuality and first love, while the show also tackles other teen issues such as bullying and friendship problems.
Older viewers have also been drawn to the series with its universal themes and nostalgia for rose-tinted schooldays (even if they weren't always so rose-tinted).
For some though, it's had a more profound effect
Are any of the Heartstopper cast LGBTQ in real life? Here's what we know about Joe Locke, Kit Connor and more
The highly anticipated third season of Heartstopper is set to debut soon. After the show's breakout accomplishment on Netflix in April 2022, Heartstopper quickly became a fan favorite, tracking the romance between Charlie Spring and Nick Nelson, alongside their friends navigating their own Queer journeys.
The demonstrate was created and written by Oseman, who also penned other works expanding the universe, such as Solitaire, Nick and Charlie, and Radio Silence.
Heartstopper explores Charlie's struggles after being outed as gay and Nick's realization of his bisexuality. There has been curiosity around the real-life sexualities of the cast, who play a range of Diverse characters.
Are any of the Heartstopper cast LGBTQ in genuine life?
Joe Locke, who plays Charlie, grew up on the Isle of Gentleman and is openly gay. He recently joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe and has expressed hopes of playing a queer Disney prince or superhero. Kit Connor, who plays Nick, came out as bisexual on social media in October 2022 after facing online harassment and accusations of "queerbaiting
By Josh Littleford – Trainee Champion
I’m sure many of you have watched, or at least heard about, Netflix’s newest hit Heartstopper. If you haven’t, it’s the story of two guys at an English secondary school who finish up falling in like, and is adapted from the graphic novels of the same name by Alice Oseman. It consists of an amazing cast of LGBTQ+ characters going through issues that will be relatable for most LGBTQ+ people. It does this in a way which makes it incredibly heart-warming and doesn’t obey the usual tropes of many LGBTQ+ love films which tend to finish in heartbreak.
Heartstopper is such an important show for representation and bringing certain issues and aspects of being LGBTQ+ into the mainstream. It spreads a message that LGBTQ+ people don’t have to decide for bad relationships but are able to discover happiness. It gives positive bisexual and transgender visibility, which is often lacking compared to gay and lesbian representation. The present also tackles the issue of being LGBTQ+ in sport – something that still faces lots of stigmas.
But Heartstopper isn’t the only heart-warming show out there that gives positive but relatable representation to LGB
Heartstopper Captures the Parts of Adolescent Queerness That Aren’t Just About Sex
Queer media has grown a big heart, and nothing embodies it more fully than Netflix’s Heartstopper. I put the series, based on Alice Oseman’s graphic novels, on in the background while assembling furniture (very same-sex attracted, I know) and I was transfixed. I watched the whole season in one night, chairs in pieces on the floor around me, as I fell head over heels for the teens on my screen. The next night I did it again.
Heartstopper is pure elevated school romantic fantasy, a story in which the L, G, B, and T are not only represented but joyfully so. Unlike the queer stories of yore in which LGBTQ+ characters were marginalized—either never named as such, leaving hungry audiences to squint in search of queer subtext, or openly identified as queer, only to meet a grisly and untimely demise (everywhere from The Children’s Hour to Buffy the Vampire Slayer)—Heartstopper sets queerness at the center.
Across social media and a wide range of reviews, Heartstopper has been hailed for its unbridled joy, an extraordinary tone among queer narratives for any age, allow alone youthful coming out stories. However, mor
At first glance, Alice Oseman’s beautifully heartwarming Heartstopper which launches today on Netflix, based on her hit graphic novels, feels like a throwback to much-loved 90s British films about gay teens like Beautiful Thing and Get Real. Although this series does share much of the feel-good quality of those movies and a similar focus on a young lgbtq+ romance in an unaccepting environment, Heartstopper brings the young man meets boy narrative into the introduce day and expands it to incorporate every LGBTQ letter without it ever feeling like box ticking.
As the series opens, we connect 14-year-old Charlie Spring (Joe Locke), who is into video games, drumming, and movie nights with his pals; who happens to be gay. He’s out at his all-boys grammar school, Truham, but Ben Wish (Sebastian Croft), a boy in the year above, isn’t. Ben texts Charlie on a whim to meet up for furtive snogs, then pretends they’ve never met when he passes him in the institution corridors. The adorable and geeky Charlie, played with the perfect mix of sensitivity, vulnerability and playful charm by Locke, deserves so much more. Might confident and trendy rugby lad Nick Nelson (a brilliant