/artsentertainment/heartstopper-actor-joe-locke-comes-out-as-gay/225627 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Sat, 12 Aug 2023 23:44:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 /artsentertainment/heartstopper-actor-joe-locke-comes-out-as-gay/225627#comment-654408 Sat, 12 Aug 2023 23:44:03 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=225627#comment-654408 Upon hearing the 2nd series was about to become available. I just couldn’t stand not knowing, what the ‘must see’, regarding this series, has been surrounding it, when it was still these marvellous hit YA novel series. I genuinely wish I was the intended age group for the graphic novels, I’d have bought them all to date, no question! I was very pleased with myself for signing up to Netflix only a couple of weeks ago. Already half way through Season 01, & it is beyond the (only) monthly fee choice (as far as I could figure out) is beyond rewarding. I think the Brits do these kinds of dramas / series especially well. How marvellous it would be whenever we manage one like this in Australia?! I adore young Joe Locke as Charlie Spring. He was the kind of Adorable / Sweetly mannered other young guy, I yearned to put my arm around as my mate or boyfriend in my high school days during the the mid 1980’s thru to 1990. I could definitely have populated a decent sized classroom, where just one of those I’d have had an infinitely rosier teenage era should that have been a possibility. Alas the deafening silence along with isolating myself, must have been enough to shield me from ever being explicitly ‘outed’. Quite excited for where it goes in Season 02 of Heartstoppers. It deserves to remain around for 22 seasons as far as I am concerned. It would be a new way to chart progress over society’s attitudes to diverse sexualities over that span of time, could it be so.

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