gay. As I lay mangled outside my maths block – with my glasses smashed into my bloodied face – one onlooker shrieked: ‘Don’t touch him, he’s probably got AIDS!’These kids were cruel, but it was a symptom of a much larger concern – the crippling effects of Section 28 and a lack of representation for LGBTQ+ people in popular culture.So when I read that Prison Break’s Wentworth Miller recently announced he doesn’t want to play straight characters anymore because ‘their stories have been told and told’, I admired him.
It is so important that LGBTQ+ stories and history is represented, and his bold move is rightly deserving of the praise he has been awarded.