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The few people with whom I shared my experience, they said to me 'this is why you are so much into sex, this is why you are gay'. After listening to you both sharing all these, and Munawar talking about how people reacted when he shared it with them, I was reminded. It is very brave of you, Munawar, that you (shared this) with us," she added.Īfter Kangana and Munawar shared their respective accounts, Saisha said she was reminded of her own experience. There is a huge stigma behind this, especially for men. At that time, we didn't understand what was happening with us. "We were all very young around five-six years old, he used to call us over and undress us. So we are using this platform to bring about awareness about child abuse and sexual abuse."Ĭontinuing, Kangana said, back in her hometown a youth would call children over and "undress" them. They face so many issues later on in youth. "They become psychologically traumatised and scarred for life. You can't even sexualise them or tell them the difference between a good touch and a bad touch. "This is a big crisis for children, they can't even be educated about this as they are very young. Since sensitising children about "good touch" and "bad touch" is still not easy, it is only fitting that the platform of 'Lock Upp' is being used to bring about awareness about abuse, she added. Every child has to go through this no matter however protective their family is," the actor said. But I didn't know back then what it meant. a boy who was a few years older to me, he used to inappropriately touch me. Everyone goes through this kind of experience, I have too. Everyone is touched inappropriately in childhood. "Munawar, so many kids every year go through this kind of harassment but we don't ever discuss this on a public platform. Kangana praised Munawar for sharing his story publicly for the first time, adding that she too was subjected to "inappropriate touch" in childhood. I never felt that sharing about this with family will do any good," the comedian said. I can't remember properly but I felt that he had found out. I probably didn’t accept that I was gay until I was 21, so I had 5–10 incredibly repressed years of not being myself and not allowing myself to develop feelings for anyone, which just sucks."After a point of time, I think they realised that they had gone into the extreme, so they thought they should stop for a while. The idea of coming out in school did NOT bear thinking about it. In my day, and in the place I grew up, there was a lot of shame around being gay. Ajayi says “when I was a teenager and I had a crush on a straight boy, I just repressed it and suffered”, and honestly, SAME. There’s actually a moment in episode two of Heartstopper where Mr. I can’t even imagine how stifled gay men must have felt before The Sexual Offences Act 1967 or during the years of Section 28! I guess I dreamt of someone making a heartfelt declaration to me as Nick does on the beach for Charlie… I can’t really remember! The layers of my repression were so deep I don’t think I even allowed myself to think like that, to be honest. Truly, it didn’t even feel like a possibility for me at that age. Seeing Nick and Charlie's story on screen was saddening because I never got to be in love in my teenage years and I wish I could've been. I was deeply in the closet at 15, and I didn't feel remotely comfortable enough to "come out" or date anyone. The story - which actually closely mirrors the webcomic - has been carefully crafted to mimic the teenage queer discovery process so closely, that it’s actually quite difficult to watch at times.
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I’d go a step further and say that the series is for queer teens especially. In my recent interview with Alice Oseman, they shared that Heartstopper is a series about teens FOR teens, as opposed to being a series about teens for a slightly older audience in mind, à la Euphoria. That’s not to say that Heartstopper isn’t realistic. Sure some of it is a bit much - what with the milkshake dates and the ardent confessions of friendship - but I just think, why the hell not? Life is hard and sometimes a slightly saccharine YA love story is just what the doctor ordered! There are so many nostalgic scenes and details in the show for me, from birthdays at bowling alleys to exploding ink pens.
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It might be that this series is a unique example of a queer, teen, romantic drama set in a British school environment. I’ve watched plenty of LGBTQ+ teen shows before - Hollyoaks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Glee, Love, Victor - but Heartstopper just hits different.