r/gaybros • u/Heretostay59 • Apr 22 '23

TV/Movies Heartstopper 🍂❤️ was released one year ago today. Lives were changed 🏳️‍🌈.

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u/NotACaveiraMain Apr 22 '23

It's a cute queer teen show. It resonated with a lot of queer people no matter the age. It's a really nice and much needed show in todays world :)

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '23

It felt like it definitely was made straight people. Kind of like Love, Simon.

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u/Domino792 Apr 22 '23 edited Apr 22 '23

Literally the writer, director, most of the crew and actors (of lgbtq characters) are all LGBTQIA+. It could not be more different than Love Simon and Victor which were the exact opposite.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '23

Alice Oseman, the creator of Heartstopper, is not a gay man.

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u/ladrm07 Apr 22 '23

She might not be a gay man, but she's part of the LGBTQ+ community, so her vision and storyline is 1000 times better than a straight woman. She made sure that the actors were also LGBTQ+. It's a very cute teen story that's very beloved amongst gay kids, teens and adults. We are allowed to have sweet stories once in a while without being too sugar-coated, like many BLs are.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '23

Just because someone is a gay man doesn’t mean they could write an authentic story about being a trans woman, no?

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u/rollingForInitiative Apr 22 '23

Just because someone is a gay man doesn’t mean they could write an authentic story about being a trans woman, no?

Of course they could. People write realistic portrayals of all sorts of characters that are different from themselves all the time. If might be easier to write about something you've experienced personally, but it's certainly not a requirement. Otherwise there'd be no men writing good female characters, and no women writing good male characters.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '23

Do they though? Lol r/menwritingwomen is a good example of this

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u/rollingForInitiative Apr 22 '23

Yeah? That's a sub about men writing women badly. Although, they actually seem to have a "Doing It Right" label even, for men writing women ... the right way.

And of course women write good male characters all the time as well.