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. 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. Some have described Heartstopper as the first of its kind.
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