“I just think that the underlying romance of the story came through more than was intended, so when it came time to unravel the relationship and have Grace state her feelings and have Zoe be upset, I think the fans were really with Zoe and were really upset, and reasonably so,” he continues. “But the thing you can’t account for always is the chemistry, and how exciting it is for the fans.” “Where we were kind of angling towards was they both get too close for comfort, and for Grace it’s not where she is sexuality-wise, and for Zoe it’s sort of her realization about where she is in some ways.” “There’s a thing that happens between writing and shooting and airing that you can’t always account for,” he explains. “There’s been a lot of valid criticism of that storyline,” admits Huether. That dynamic continued into the following season, but when Grace ultimately dumped Zoe, backlash followed. In it, she falls for Grace Cardinal (played by Nikki Gould).
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Golja and fans found out Zoe is gay in the summer movie Don’t Look Back. Zoe’s other close friendship was not so well-received, at least not for some time. But everything that they do and say is out of love and out of the fact that they care for one another so much,” says Golja.
“Tristan and Zoe definitely do have a complex relationship, there’s a lot of push and pull. “They went through the normal everyday struggle of Tristan wanting her to label herself and her not quite wanting to put that label on herself yet, but they just grew together and made it through” says Lettau. But the takeaway for many with regards to the Tristan and Zoe friendship is that for several seasons we got to see two gay and lesbian teenagers connecting – the kind of queer friendship many in our community hold most dear. His sexual relationship with Zoe, one of Tristan’s best friends and later revealed to be gay herself, has certainly left a lot of fans fuming. Now, Miles has made a lot of mistakes during his complicated relationship with Tristan. “It just felt like we were getting to a point where that kind of representation was important.” “We’re always trying to reflect high school life and reflect reality,” says Huether, who together with other Degrassi writers has taken inspiration for the show’s bisexual, gender fluid and other LGBTQ characters from speaking with real students. “At least that’s what he thought he was doing at the beginning and later on came out officially as bisexual.” “At first, he wasn’t even really labelling it as anything, so it was mostly just about the way he was feeling, which I thought was an interesting thing and also something that’s maybe not super represented, is kind of like this feeling of, ‘Okay, I’m choosing people,’” says Osborne.
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Miles is bisexual and out, and, for his part, Osborne is very aware that out bi male teenagers aren’t something you see on TV every day. “It made me so sad to see somebody who had to live duplicitously like that, that it kind of has been right from the very beginning of this show, it’s been a very important mandate for me,” she says of including LGBTQ characters on the show. Schuyler describes Mackey, who passed away from cancer in 1997, as someone who pretended to be straight during the week at the school they both worked at, but then was out at gay bars on the weekend.
The show’s first episode was shot at Mackey’s home, who would go on to make several appearances on Degrassi. Really dedicated fans will already know that the show was named after Toronto’s De Grassi Street where Schuyler’s gay best friend, Bruce Mackey, lived. And that would never have been a reality way back when it first started.”Īnd yet there was always something gay about Degrassi. “By the time we got to Next Class, we had characters entering junior high who just know they’re gay. “Part of the success of our longevity has been that we’ve just always fought to keep abreast with the changing times,” says Linda Schuyler, co-creator and executive producer of the entire Degrassi franchise.
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