Ultimately, Heartstopper shouldn’t be where your viewing starts and ends. On Twitter, people have been sharing their ‘ My Heartstopper’ equivalents – characters that, intentionally or not, provided LGBTQ+ visibility for them when growing up. February is bringing many LGBTQ+ tidings including the last seasons of Killing Eve and Better Things, Shay Mitchell playing gay again, celesbian-studded game shows, an Anne+ movie, Abbi Jacobson. Such a statement discredits the many shows and movies preceding Heartstopper that have handled their queer coming-of-age stories with similar levels of sensitivity. Gay Shows To Watch on Netflix Right Now gay 320,915 views gay lgbt gayfilm Show more Show more 5.6K Dislike Share Save Victor Yates 37. Leah Lewis and Alexxis Lemire star in The Half of It.
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And while it’s a rarity, it’s not the only uplifting tale of being young and queer available.
There’s no denying Heartstopper is extremely lovely and that it will inevitably act as a source of validation for its Gen Z audience – with high schoolers played by appropriately-aged actors, most of whom also align with their character’s identity: a lesbian couple who are proud of the label (happy Lesbian Visibility Week!) a Black trans woman untethered from a traumatic subplot.