{"id":14054,"date":"2026-07-23T09:39:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/07\/23\/the-end-of-heartstopper-is-a-bittersweet-loss-its-never-felt-scarier-to-be-young-and-queer-alim-kheraj-culture-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T09:39:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:39:49","slug":"the-end-of-heartstopper-is-a-bittersweet-loss-its-never-felt-scarier-to-be-young-and-queer-alim-kheraj-culture-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/07\/23\/the-end-of-heartstopper-is-a-bittersweet-loss-its-never-felt-scarier-to-be-young-and-queer-alim-kheraj-culture-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of Heartstopper is a bittersweet loss \u2013 it\u2019s never felt scarier to be young and queer | Alim Kheraj Culture | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gay Netflix romance maintained a political edge despite rollbacks to queer and trans rights<\/p>\n<p>After six books, three seasons of television and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/jul\/17\/heartstopper-forever-movie-review\">film-length finale<\/a>, Heartstopper has come to an end. Often dubbed the most wholesome show on TV, Netflix\u2019s adaptation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/alice-oseman\">Alice Oseman<\/a>\u2019s young adult LGBTQ+ graphic novel series, which itself began life as a web comic, is a legitimate cultural phenomenon, turning its two leads \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/kit-connor\">Kit Connor<\/a> and Joe Locke \u2013 into household names, while racking up tens of millions of views. In print, meanwhile, the Heartstopper series has sold over 10m copies worldwide, including about 1.3m in the UK alone.<\/p>\n<p>Yet these figures only tell one side of the story of Heartstopper\u2019s impact. At the queer and feminist bookshop where I work part-time in Sheffield, the young people who come in are immediately drawn to copies of Oseman\u2019s books, and often take pictures of the now permanent window display depicting Nick and Charlie, the couple at the story\u2019s heart. I see young queer people\u2019s faces light up when they see we have the book in stock, even though they probably already have a copy at home.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2026\/jul\/23\/heartstopper-netflix-end\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2026\/jul\/23\/heartstopper-netflix-end\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/14e84ef8f595c3a6a2e44d481d25530a20f15c64\/953_0_3175_2540\/master\/3175.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=eab7335c2fd8067fa378b4497ee6ca1b\" title=\"The end of Heartstopper is a bittersweet loss \u2013 it\u2019s never felt scarier to be young and queer | Alim Kheraj\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gay Netflix romance maintained a political edge despite rollbacks to queer and trans rights After six books, three seasons of television and a film-length finale, Heartstopper has come to an end. 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