![]() I knew what was coming, or at least a version of it. ![]() “Can I ask you something?” Then, at my consent, “Nevermind.” That weekend at a party, I brought it up as we sat alone by the fire pit. In the fall of my senior year at the University of Louisville, a fraternity brother stopped me on campus. While a relative truth - I was offered a single dorm room with my own bathroom and later, I helped with the development of LGBTQ-competency curriculum for the medical campus - things were not perfect. She has no doubts about what lays beyond the other side of that door.Īt the time I entered college in 2011, the University of Louisville was considered a bastion of LGBTQ safety in the South. She has been closeted for years and her senses are finely tuned. “And yet I still hear the word ‘fag’ around school, like, five times a day,” responds April Stevens (Devon Hales). She is a bright, hopeful, and blindly infatuated baby queer. “There are more people living out in our country than ever before,” says Sterling Wesley (Maddie Phillips). In Teenage Bounty Hunters, this is expressed through a brief ‘debate’ between the main character and her love interest. Therefore, the show provides necessary visibility to otherwise marginalized LGBTQ youth and adults who have yet to be recognized as complete citizens by their government(s).Īccording to GLSEN’s 2017 National School Climate Survey, “students in religious schools reported the most anti-LGBTQ related discrimination at school compared to students in other schools” and students in the South had greater negative school experiences with the least access to LGBTQ-related resources nationwide. This includes legal conversion therapy - and at a Christian school like the one our Teenage Bounty Hunters attend, this is a very real threat. As is true for most of the South, state-level protections are next to non-existent. She boldly claims both her lesbianism and her God in a busy arcade in Atlanta, Georgia.Ītlanta - where the teen comedy is filmed, set, and many of the cast are from - is an outlier in terms of sexual orientation and gender identity protections in the state of Georgia. However, in 1x08 From Basic To Telenovela, April Stevens becomes an outlier. Her venom is familiar - like Regina George (Rachel McAdams, Mean Girls), Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), or Rose McGowan’s Courtney Shayne in Jawbreaker, you assume she is unfailingly apathetic. She is a holier than thou teen at an elite Christian private school. In the pilot, you’re introduced to stereotypical mean girl, April Stevens. So, the show seemed like a perfect, mind-numbing distraction. I had spent the last hour laying on my couch, continuously revolving between crying over the woman that had just ghosted me on tinder and the rejection email I received on top of that while listening to songs professionally engineered to make me even sadder…I was having, in short, a bad day. When I put on Netflix’s Teenage Bounty Hunters for the first time, I wasn’t expecting much.
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