I am a 77-year-old gay man, and I find the whole Heartstopper series a superb delight (Editorial, 3 August). The series is for teenagers, of course, but to an old queer like me is so life affirming and such a joyous experience that for a moment I forgot about the absurdities of the current government and life in Rishi Sunak’s Britain. The young people in Heartstopper have no interest in that, only in friendship and young love and how they wish to live their lives, but still with parental constraints.
Obviously the kids depicted are middle-class kids and the series does not reflect the abject poverty many young people have to live with, but that is not what the show is about. It reflects all the essential concerns of adolescence without the overbearing influence of adults.
Dr Roger Lambert
Tomintoul, Moray
