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Why, 20 years on, I’m still a sucker for gay TV classic BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
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by Juno Dawson
LET’S NOT GET IT TWISTED:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is queer TV.
Exhibit A: the season 2 finale, ‘Becoming’, features Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) coming out to her clueless mother as a vampire slayer. “Have you tried not being a slayer?” Joyce asks, before issuing Buffy with the ultimatum all LGBT+ kids fear: “If you walk out that door, don’t ever come back.” Buffy does walk out and, like too many LGBT+ youths, ends up, for a period, homeless.
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