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Casey Gardner is a bisexual character from Atypical .

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Casey is a slim and tall woman, with brown short hair and brown eyes. She often wears flannels and baggy clothes, as well as running clothes.

Casey is very independant and sarcastic. She is often seen answering questions ironically and sarcastically, especially if those involve her private life and love life. She is also shown to be prone to quick conclusions and impulsivity.

In season one she began a relationship with her neighbor Evan who remained her boyfriend until season three. In season three she began developing feelings for her friend Izzie, who she ends up with on season three after dealing with her feelings for her, and struggling with her sexuality the entire season.

In season four Casey becomes closer with Sam's friend Abby, who is also bisexual. Casey tells her she did not feel like she could relate to anyone in the GSA at Clayton prep. After Abby shares her experiences with Casey, Casey begins to realize she is also bisexual. In episode nine Casey comes out to Sam and Zahid, finally feeling comfortable, and confident in her sexuality.

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The script describes Casey and Izzie's first kiss as "a real kiss, the kind that means something". By the end of season three Casey and Izzie begin a relationship, both girls finally accepting themselves for who they are, together.

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Netflix has been all about the lesbian and bisexual representation, and their original show Atypical is no exception. Atypical follows Sam, an autistic teenager, and his family and friends. Among those family members is his sister Casey, who has her own storyline of self-discovery.
Atypical has been praised in the past for being part of the larger gay and lesbian media revolution, as it highlights just what it means to come out during adolescence. From Casey’s relationship with Izzie, it’s clear that the two are struggling to find themselves through their sexuality, and figure out what being gay truly means to them. As teenagers, emotions run high, and there is still a lot for Casey to figure out. Casey experiences her first heartbreak with her boyfriend, as she leaves him to be with Izzie, but becomes heartbroken again from Izzie later on. Ah, high school, we don’t miss it!
So, let’s back it up a little bit. It’s your typical girl-meets-girl high school romance. Casey is dating her boyfriend but gets the opportunity to transfer to a private school. Once there, Casey is initially bullied by popular girl Izzie and finds herself wishing she never transferred. However, Casey and Izzie find themselves relating to each other’s hardships, and becoming quick friends. Naturally, they eventually kiss and begin to fall for each other, never having been openly attracted to women before. As the story usually goes, the girls leave their boyfriends to be together, and the rest is teenage drama-filled history.
Casey struggles deeply leaving her boyfriend; she truly loved him, and what they had together was important to her. This also leaves Casey’s sexuality open to interpretation as she could be bisexual, but her limited experience with both men and women doesn’t give her a lot to draw conclusions from. Regardless, we find Casey experiences the intensity of a first break up, as well as the passion of a newfound relationship. This leads Casey to her coming out, which she does very confidently. Her brother Sam draws a picture of two gay penguins (an interest of his) and basically lets Casey know that no matter what, he will always have her back. Awww. Casey confidently steps foot into her sexuality, and coming out seems to be somewhat of a breeze for her.
In contrast, Izzie is not so open and confident with her sexuality, which causes some issues between the two. Casey and Izzie argue because Casey wants to be able to hold Izzie’s hand at school and show off their relationship to the masses. Izzie, however, wants to remain private. The tension grows and the will-they-won’t they becomes clear as the two break it off over and over again. It almost seems at times that Casey wants to pressure Izzie to come out, or at least to acknowledge their relationship publicly; Casey is more than heartbroken over Izzie’s lack of affection and doesn’t feel comfortable being a secret. We can’t say we blame her as she took a big step to leave her boyfriend to be with Izzie, but we can’t blame Izzie either. These things take time.
Izzie and Casey’s relationship is surprisingly… normal. AfterEllen recently covered Netflix’s original Trinkets covering Elodie’s strikingly similar storyline. Girl meets girl, one comes out one doesn’t, conflict and teenage dramatics ensue, girls get back together and live happily ever after. Thus begs the question, is Atypical as groundbreaking as people say? Are Casey and Izzie leading the lesbian revolution, or are they just another gay teenage couple navigating through life?
If we want to reach full lesbian representation in the media, we cannot keep playing out the same storylines. While Casey and Izzie depict relationship issues that do truly happen, as well as carrying the emotions and intensity of adolescent girls, not every relationship goes down this way. Atypical does Casey and injustice through this; by watering down her relationship and sexuality to fit into a typical lesbian relationship stereotype.
By writing Casey as a bisexual, or lesbian, it almost seems as if the writers were forcing diversity on to the show. Casey’s storyline is slow, and the writing seems lazy, as they force Casey to mold herself into someone she was so adamantly against in the previous seasons. Before, Casey was confident and committed to her passions. After Izzie, Casey becomes submissive, nervous, frightened, and honestly a little toxic. It is almost as if the show is trying to send some sort of progressive pro-LGBT message, without considering how that waters down the phenomenal characters in the show, making them two-dimensional.
Despite Casey’s storyline being rather blah , Atypical is worth the watch. If you have a neuro-atypical person in your life, the show does a great job of being familiar. Atypical highlights what having autism is really like and also what being a baby gay, especially at a young age, does feel like. While the writing seems rather forced and lazy in season three, it is still great TV. You wind up rooting for Casey and Izzie, despite what they go through, and you find yourself touched by Sam and his antics as well. We can still do better to create lesbian representation outside the well-trod paths that started with
The L Word , and Atypical is an example of that. Trying to normalize teenage couples is great, but writing the same story over and over makes it typical, and doesn’t emulate full representation. We can always do better!
All three seasons of Atypical are streaming now on Netflix.
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In recent years, the world, and many closed countries, have become more and more aware of LGBTQ rights and the issues that the community faces.
The sporting world hasn't been ignorant of the discussion, and many athletes in the recent past have found themselves comfortable enough to come out as gay or lesbian. Unlike several other sports, where homosexual athletes have received serious backlash and threats, tennis has been largely open and non-homophobic.
Tennis is arguably one of the world’s most gay-friendly sports. Many former champions are openly gay, and those include the greatest of champions.
Here is a list of five homosexual tennis players who have achieved a lot of success:
Australian ace Casey Dellacqua came out as lesbian when she revealed, in 2013, that she had had a baby with her long-term partner, Amanda Judd.
Judd is the birth mother of their son Blake, and Dellacqua went on record to say that Blake was her ‘lucky charm’.
In a 2013 interview after his birth, Dellacqua said she was "juggling being a working mom", and that she found the creches provided to players at Grand Slams “super useful.”
A doubles specialist, Dellacqua was once the third-ranked doubles player in the world. She has reached the finals of every Grand Slam in the women’s doubles, winning the 2011 French Open mixed doubles title with American Scott Lipsky.
Regarded as one of the best doubles and mixed-doubles players in the sport, Lisa Raymond has 11 Grand Slam titles to her name. In a career spanning two decades, she first conquered the top spot in the ATP doubles ranking in June 2000. Raymond repeated the feat on several occasions after that, and she also has the distinction of winning a Olympic medal.
Raymond openly acknowledges her lesbianism, and was in a long-term relationship with her former doubles partner Rennae Stubbs (also in our list, but not top 5).
Raymond has been quoted as saying: "I came out because I knew that there would be life after tennis, and being gay and playing tennis is not a big deal. There have been a lot of women in sports that have come out, and it’s not seen as anything ‘wow’."
"The most beautiful tennis star of her times"
The first Puerto Rican female athlete to turn professional, the first to win an Olympic gold medal and the first to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, Gigi Fernandez was a role model for numerous girls of her country.
Fernandez won 17 Grand Slam doubles titles and two Olympic gold medals while representing the United States of America. Given her enormous success, the World No. 1 ranking in women’s doubles didn't remain out of reach either.
Highly regarded as one of the most beautiful tennis stars of her era, Fernandez has been an entrepreneur and tennis coach since her retirement in 1997.
Although Fernandez came out publicly as being a lesbian at a time when her career was at its peak, her globe-trotting career made it extremely difficult for her to sustain a long-term relationship. After her retirement she met Jane Geddes, four years older and an 11-time winner on the LPGA tour , and presently the couple are happy parents to two children.
“The greatest competitor I’ve ever known” - Margaret Court on Billie Jean King
Duration : Late 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, early 1980s
A true innovator, Billie Jean King started a new era in world tennis by founding the Women’s Tennis Association, the Women’s Sports Foundation, and the World Team Tennis. Having won 39 Grand Slams titles in total (12 singles, 16 women’s doubles and 11 mixed doubles titles), her win-loss record is >80% in all types of competitions - including the Grand Slams.
King has always been an advocate for sexual equality, and she even won "The Battle of the Sexes" tennis match in 1973. She first got married to Larry King, but their relationship grew increasingly distant as her career blossomed. In the late 1960s King began to have relationships with women.
She kept her attraction towards and relationships with women hidden for long. In 1981, she reluctantly came out as lesbian when Marilyn Barnett (an ex-lover and personal secretary) filed a very public palimony suit.
Although King admitted the affair to the world, she called it a "mistake" and refused to acknowledge that she was a lesbian.
She admitted later that the main reason she didn’t come out publicly was the fear of losing her sponsors. But Barnett's lawsuit weakened her financial status anyway, with several of her sponsors withdrawing their support.
Later King claimed that coming out publicly as a lesbian was her "longest, hardest journey". Today, she is an international leader in seeking recognition and equal rights for gays and lesbians.
"The greatest singles, doubles and mixed doubles player who’s ever lived" - Billie Jean King on Martina Navratilova
Country : Czech Republic / United States of America
Duration : Late 1970s, 1980s, early 1990s, Mid 2000s
A haul of 59 Grand Slams is not something to joke about, but that's just how great Martina Navratilova was. She rose above all kinds of mockery to become the best there ever was.
Apart from the sheer number of Majors to her credit, Navratilova also accomplished the extremely rare feat of completing a career Grand Slam in singles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles (called the Grand Slam “boxed set”). She is also the only person of either sex to have won eight different tournaments at least seven times.
She returned to the court a few years back during her late 40s, thus proving that her mettle and will power were second to none.
Navratilova came out publicly in 1991 through The Advocate. As a consequence, she started losing support from her sponsors and was treated like a pariah in the world of tennis. Her lesbianism was considered a contrast to the image that women’s tennis was trying to display.
Navratilova has also been famous for expensive break-ups with her girlfriends. She settled with one of her ex-lovers Toni Layton for an estimated $3 million in 2010. Long back, in 1991, Navratilova had split with Judy Nelson after a long relationship of eight years, and paid a rumored $3.5 million.
Presently, Navratilova is involved with various charities that advocate gay and lesbian rights.
Here are 3 other great tennis players who also came out:
Duration : Late 1920s, 1930s, early 1940s
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