Gen is canonically bisexual in a way that is often ignored in media: she’s loud about it, she embraces it, and first and foremost, she’s happy about it. “I do not like when a book is like, ‘Well, it was implied,’ or later the author goes, ‘Oh, yeah that character was gay’,” Gaby begins, adding a disclaimer that she’s not directly shading JK Rowling. “I think a big part of what I like about our channel is that I’m explicitly queer, explicitly bisexual. A lot of media will have a character be like, ‘I’m fluid, I don’t have a label’ or be like ‘I was straight, now I’m gay’ and almost no shows in media use the term bisexual and it’s weird. It’s almost like they think that’s not a word. I wanted the character to use the word bisexual and to show bisexuality as a real thing and a real calling card and a casual thing.” “And then, in terms of Alex, I liked the idea of having a trans love interest and having a character whose whole identity isn’t about being trans and who’s not sad or defined by their coming out,” Gaby says about Alex who works at the school newspaper along with Gen. The two at first push each other’s buttons with Gen disliking him while Ava predicts their feelings for each other from the start, “…It was nice to have a character who was just desired and has their own ambitions and their own flaws and their own arrogance that kind of matches Gen.” Wanting to avoid writing a sad or “typical” narrative for Alex, the two hired three consultants to read the book and make sure that Alex’s representation was accurate and beneficial to the trans community. #IHateEveryoneButYou #Novel #AllisonRaskin #GabyDunn #JustBetweenUsShow #Writers 📷: Robin Roemer http://teenplicity.com/gaby-dunn-and-allison-raskin-hate-everyone-but-you/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo4aIcAl-3W/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=prch5ry61o4l
