Kit Connor’s coming out shows that the concept of queerbaiting has been gutted

“Bravo for forcing someone who is 18 to come out”

It is in a short tweet full of bitterness that Kit Connor, a young actor discovered in the Netflix series Heart-poundingadaptation of Alice Oseman’s bestseller, announced her bisexuality: “ I think some have not understood the series. Goodbye. “

Kit Connor had recently left the social network, visibly disgusted by the atmosphere there (we are not far from agreeing with him for a few days). The media Their remembers being later accused of queerbating by fans of the series, after the publication of a photo of him holding hands with actress Maia Reficco.

Although he never mentioned his sexual orientation, he plays a high school student who falls in love with another guy in the first season of. Heart-poundingso Kit Connor obviously felt compelled to address this issue publicly.

Speak about queerbatingor the idea that thewe attract an LGBTQI + audience by dangling love affairs between two same-sex characters, against Kit Connor was it correct? This is an actor who plays a teenager who turns out to be bisexual and who until now hasn’t wanted to talk about his own sexuality, which he has every right to do.

Also, and how the media remind us very subtly Pink news, “There is no point in talking about queerbaiting and Heartstopper because the show is all about explicit queer representation. “

Talking about queerbating wrongly and through distorting the meaning, but also simply forgetting the idea that potentially Kit Connor might not be heterosexual, we arrive at this situation in which a very young adult had to come out not because he wanted to, but above all everything because he felt obliged to justify himself.

Do we have to remind him again? We get out of it at our own pace and in terms that satisfy us and correspond to our reality. Australian actress Rebel Wilson also came out last June introducing the woman who shares her life. We learned a few days later of the news that she had been pressured by an unscrupulous media and she had found herself taking the initiative to prevent the information being disclosed at her expense.

The original author ofHeart-poundingAlice Oseman, however, gave her full support to Kit Connor:

“I don’t really understand how people can watch Heartstopper and then happily waste their time speculating on sexuality and making judgments based on stereotypes. I hope they are ashamed. Kit you are fantastic “