“Boys are supposed to be big and tough … but it’s a little bit of an insecurity for him. “Society won’t talk about insecurities within young boys enough,” Winston said. He doesn’t have the easiest time with the news because, as actor Jahi Di'Allo Winston puts it, “he feels this gravitational pull towards her” and is insecure at the thought of not being together.
“There’s a bit of representation in older generations, but I think for the teens who are watching it who identify with these characters, they will be able to feel comfort and hopefully acceptance at the end of the show."Īfter Kate realizes she’s a lesbian and isn’t romantically interested in boys, she tells her boyfriend, Luke. “There’s barely any representation for girlfriends in high school,” she said.
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Kennedy said this is groundbreaking because while Everything Sucks! isn’t the first TV series to depict LGBT teens, she noted that there haven't been a lot of young high schoolers in lesbian relationships onscreen. 16, shows Kate navigating her sexuality and realizing that she doesn’t actually have romantic feelings for her boyfriend, Luke O'Neil (Jahi Di'Allo Winston), because she likes girls instead.
The 10-episode season, which first premiered on Netflix on Feb. “There’s so little representation in regular mainstream media that it’s incredible to be able to convey so much in one show.”Įverything Sucks! is as much of a coming-out story as it is a coming-of-age story for Messner, one of the show’s main characters.
“The entire show defies stereotypes,” Peyton Kennedy, who plays the role of Kate Messner, told BuzzFeed News. For the young stars of Everything Sucks!, Netflix’s new fictional series about a group of high schoolers growing up in 1990s Oregon, working on the show has felt like a milestone in LGBT representation given its exploration of a young, lesbian romance.
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