Same-sex dads, bisexual daughter, gay son – the story behind TV hit Genera+ion – The Times

Zelda Barnz came out to her parents at the age of 15, in a letter she sent home from summer camp. “This is what we ate for lunch, and I did horse-riding today, and by the way, I’m bisexual,” says Zelda, paraphrasing only slightly.

She’d realised the previous summer that she was attracted to girls as well as boys. “It wasn’t like an awakening or anything, but I had been questioning it for a while and then I got to summer camp and I just thought, ‘Yes, I think I definitely am bisexual,’ ” she recalls. She spent the next year “questioning more and figuring it all out. And then I was at summer camp again and I realised, ‘Oh, it’s been a year since