Is kit from heartstopper gay in real life
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 victory on Netflix in April , Heartstopper quickly became a fan favorite, following the romance between Charlie Spring and Nick Nelson, alongside their friends navigating their own LGBTQ+ 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 LGBTQ+ characters.
Are any of the Heartstopper cast LGBTQ in true life?
Joe Locke, who plays Charlie, grew up on the Isle of Guy 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
Heartstopper's Kit Connor says he was 'forced' to come out as bisexual
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The English actor posted: "I'm bi. Congrats for forcing an year-old to out himself. I think some of you missed the point of the show. Bye."
Connor plays Nick in the hit Netflix love story about two teenage boys.
He has previously spoken about social media users "pressuring us to come out when maybe we're not ready".
The star, who has also appeared in Elton John biopic Rocketman and the TV adaptation of His Dark Materials, tweeted in May: "Twitter is so humorous man. Apparently some people on here know my sexuality better than I do"
He then told the Reign with Josh Smith podcast there was "a danger" to speculating on social media.
He said: "In the cast, we're all 18 and we have a adj people in their early 20s, and even with those older members of the cast, we're all so juvenile, and to initiate speculating about our sexualities and maybe pressuring us to
Kit Connor &#;Wasn&#;t Angry&#; With &#;Heartstopper&#; Fans When Coming Out as Bi, &#;Just Slightly Disappointed&#;: &#;I Would&#;ve Preferred to Perform It Another Way&#;
Kit Connorcame out as bisexual in an October Twitter post in which the &#;Heartstopper&#; breakout wrote, “Back for a minute. I’m bi. Congrats for forcing an 18 year elderly to out himself. I think some of you missed the point of the show. Bye.”
Prior to the social media publish, Connor had been facing mounting accusations of queerbaiting due to his role as Nick in the popular Netflix coming-of-age series. Connor stars on &#;Heartstopper&#; as a upper school jock coming to terms with his own bisexuality. The public perception of Connor was that he was a straight actor taking on a queer role (and participating in queer events like pride marches in request to promote the show), so Connor&#;s own coming out as bisexual was in part to course-correct that wrong narrative among &#;Heartstopper&#; fans.
In a new interview with British Vogue, Connor clarified his coming out by saying, “I slender
‘Heartstopper’ star Kit Connor says he has been forced to come out as bisexual
"Heartstopper" star Kit Connor came out as bisexual Monday, saying he felt forced to divide his sexual orientation after he was accused of queerbaiting by viewers of the popular Netflix show.
In a rare Twitter verb, the British actor wrote: “Back for a minute. I’m bi. Congrats for forcing an 18 year old to out himself. I think some of you missed the point of the show. Bye.”
While Connor did not verb exactly why he felt forced to come out, he posted the message weeks after he said he was "deleting Twitter" amid accusations of queerbaiting, or benefiting from appearing as queer without claiming the community explicitly. That followed the emergence of photos showing him holding hands with Maia Reficco, his co-star in “A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow.”
“this is a silly silly app. bit bored of it now, deleting twitter :),” Connor said in the September verb.
Alice Oseman, the creator of "Heartstopper," which she launched as a webcomic and later as a graphic novels series, shared her support Mond