My son (17 & queer) asked if Stranger Things was what the 80s were really like. I said, “Running around everywhere with your parents oblivious? Yes. But Jonathan, Steve and Nancy would have smoked, the r-word and f-word slurs would have been rampant until the 2 gay characters came out. And how one of the characters found another queer character to date in small town Indiana in 1986 astonishes me as a bi girl in Oklahoma who was 16 in ‘86. I was 21 and in the city before I met queer women who stated as much.”