Yeah, possibly, it’ll depend on where they go with it. In fairness, just taking this season on its own, especially April’s points during the little convince me debate, it’s pretty thoughtful and so far NOT insisting on a full public coming out from a narrative point of view. I didn’t mind Sterling’s personal insistence, she hadn’t made it an ultimatum, in so many words–as some other shows’ characters literally have–but generally, she was coming from a place of naivete and optimism and wanting to be open and happy. That’s understandable, she’s a young girl in actual love for literally the first time and whose parents and sister probably DO love her unconditionally, that’s her experience of the world. She has no roadmap on how to do this and her next move is to want to do things like holding hands and be with April in public the way she was with Luke and well, that requires them to come out.
Honestly, I wouldn’t even have been thinking about this so much if I hadn’t also been thinking about GLOW and all those other shows. For the time being, it’s sympathetic and understandable on both sides, made more complicated by the role Sterling played in April’s dad’s getting caught. That final convo on the bench wasn’t just about April and Sterling but the surprise reveal that the dad was out and setting that up for next season. Presumably April will find out and that’s just gonna make things even more complicated.