'Love, Victor' is a gay g-of-age story that belongs on Disney+

Contents:

• ‘LOVE, VICTOR’ REVIEW: TV’S CUTT GAY ROM-COM MATUR SEASON 2
• LOVE, VICTOR REP: THE PERFECT LEVEL OF GAY
• 'LOVE, VICTOR': HULU'S GAY TEEN ROM- WAS DUMPED BY DISNEY+: WHY THAT SENDS THE WRONG MSAGE
• HULU’S LOVE, VICTOR IS UGHT UP THE MYTHOLOGY OF WHE GAYNS
• GAY GAY
• ‘LOVE, VICTOR’ STAR SAYS GAY ROLE SPARKED HOMOPHOBIA OM HIS FAY, ATH THREATS

‘LOVE, VICTOR’ REVIEW: TV’S CUTT GAY ROM-COM MATUR SEASON 2

Love, Victor viewers have watched Victor Salazar (played by Michael Cimo) grow om an secure closeted teen to a young gay man on the datg scene, but that journey will soon be at s end. And while a show about a young gay man movg to the big cy and explorg his sex life is fely worth makg, seems that Hulu do not have an tert makg that show right now.

LOVE, VICTOR REP: THE PERFECT LEVEL OF GAY

Sce the Love, Victor creators no longer had to wre and produce this send batch of episos for the fay-iendly ey and sensibili of a Disney+ dience, they really got to up the ante and explore sis to Victor post-g out that they weren't able to do prevly, and the show really benefted om this more thentic (and sometim msy) portrayal of young, morn queer got the chance to terview the seri' two leads, Michael Cimo (Victor) and Gee Sear (Benji), about returng to the Simonverse and talked about the show's reprentatn of queer people of lor, plex and realistic pictns of a gay teen uple, what 's like g out to relig parents, and so much more! No piece of media n ever be an all-enpassg overview of one group’s experience, but this show has really turned to a unique survey of the gay landspe, om sexual qutng, to sexual awakeng, self-acceptance, and fally learng to live a world where others don’t rpond well to you beg your te self.

There are many stereotyp media about what means to be gay, and too often they pict a whe, upper-middle class character wh fay and iends who have no qualms about queerns. Victor has ternalized homophobia throughout the first season, takg awhile to figure out that is ed okay to like men, no matter what his nservative Latx parents have tght him the past.

Arguably the most tasteful analysis the show pulls off is s pictn of the limbo you are placed as a gay person, particularly a gay man, where you are stuck between two different worlds based off of your genr exprsns. For those who thk this type of homophobia is an outdated trope, take a peek at any of the ments on social media at the begng of Pri celebratns when any male sports teams lend their support to the equaly movement. To a sizable portn of the populatn, beg gay is still synonamo wh beg ls mascule, and Victor feels the pa of his beg outsted om the guys he hoops wh a very raw way.

'LOVE, VICTOR': HULU'S GAY TEEN ROM- WAS DUMPED BY DISNEY+: WHY THAT SENDS THE WRONG MSAGE

In one of the most revelatory l the whole seri, Victor asks his teammate Andrew (played by Mason Goodg), an eventual ally, what is the perfect amount of gay to satisfy everyone? Benji reprents many of the privileg that exist pop culture wh gay men: whe, rich, and posssg socially liberal parents, he don’t fully unrstand many of the hardships Victor’s life. Wh the time that is given, you don’t always get the full picture on the peripheral of the ma plot, but relatnships like Victor and his bt iend, Felix, and the bond that he shar wh his ex-girliend, Mia, are also valuable to the portrayal of a gay man’s ner circle.

Victor and Felix do not reprent the majory of gay/straight iends, rather they portray the idyllic potential of this scenar a world that will hopefully bee fully fortable wh some day soon. Unfortunately, pictns of the LGBTQ muny on screen have long been rtricted to one-dimensnal sikicks (the Gay Bt Friend trope, examed perfectly here by The Take) and cheap stereotyp (Carol on Friends was ed to sult Ross’s masculy, suatg that he turned her lbian bee he wasn’t man enough for her).

HULU’S LOVE, VICTOR IS UGHT UP THE MYTHOLOGY OF WHE GAYNS

In Love, Victor, the re discsn around how masculy, nservative social norms, and the gay experience n merge to one liftyle is extremely pellg for a myriad of reasons, not the least beg that parents of children who look, act, and behave jt like Victor n see how normal all of this is. Beg gay is so much more than who you are attracted too; sexualy relat to every sector of a person’s life and how they are perceived by the society around them. After reachg a major tone his relatnship wh Benji, Victor — who was told last season that “there’s no one way to be gay” — is forced to nont another load qutn: Is he willg to sacrifice a part of his inty to fe a new one?

“This is our way of sayg that you n be as gay as you want, whatever way that you want, and we will forever stand [by] you, ” Andrew says, before the other teammat the moment (but, hey, at least they are tryg! Victor (bls his heart) had this pre-nceived notn of what gay people looked and acted like, but after playg basketball, Bram troduced Victor to a whole, diverse muny of LGBTQ+ people, cludg he and Simon’s that night, while hangg out wh his new iends at a drag show, Victor fds out that Simon has been sharg Victor’s msag wh Bram and the roommat. Even if he has a girliend now, ’s totally okay to be nfed—pecially when he is still figurg out his enurag Victor to tell his iends, pecially Mia, the tth that he’s gay.

Love, Victor -- Hulu's beloved televisn sp-off of 2018's groundbreakg gay, teen rom- Love, Simon -- is returng for s send season jt time for Pri Month this year, and sce the creators no longer had to produce the show for the sensibili of a Disney+ dience, all the love, drama, angst, and mss that the seri is known for is gettg dialed all the way up -- and everythg is about to get a whole lot sexier! In an exclive clip om the show's upg send season, Victor and his new boyiend Benji are your typil, young gays love (and lt) who n't seem to keep their hands off of each other.

GAY GAY

" So I was disappoted, but not at all surprised, when Disney+ revealed Febary that "Love, Victor" – a seri spoff of groundbreakg 2018 gay movie "Love, Simon" – would no longer premiere on the fay-iendly service due to s "adult them. More:Watch the LGBTQ-iendly TV shows, films to honor Pri MonthHavg watched the 10-episo first season of "Love, Victor, " 's hard not to see Disney+'s choice to dump the g-of-age edy as wardly and homophobic; an easy way of passg off the show to sister service Hulu, whout any of the potential backlash om tolerant, pearl-clutchg "Love, Simon, " " Victor" centers on a wsome high-school boy stgglg to e to terms wh his sexualy.

In this spoff of the 2018 film Love, Simon, Victor Salazar (played by newer Michael Cimo) fds himself wh a cute girliend but a csh on gay classmate Benji (Gee Sear). Back the late '90s, you’d be hard prsed to fd anythg remblg gay romance on TV, and yet The WB’s supernatural drama put an unabashed lbian uple right at the heart of the story. Jog Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar, and I’d be a bad gay not to mentn her performance the mp-tastic Scream 2 here) the Soby Gang is Alyson Hannigan’s Willow Rosenberg.

We hear the phrase “sexualy is a spectm” all the time (or at least I do New York and on Gay Twter), but filmmaker Diree Akhavan is here to poke around wh that phrase and see jt how unfortable n make people, gay or straight alike. Police Capta Raymond Holt (played by Andre Brgher who got his start playg a p on Homici: Life on the Street) has been openly gay sce the show’s begng, provg not all gay televisn characters need to be boozy hairstylists or flight attendants.

‘LOVE, VICTOR’ STAR SAYS GAY ROLE SPARKED HOMOPHOBIA OM HIS FAY, ATH THREATS

And addn to Billy and John, we’ve also got Cole Esla (the kidnappg Twkie om Search Party) servg as Billy’s gay rival and transgenr actor Shaka Nayfack (Connectg... Another ncelled-too-soon-but-prerved-on-Hulu classic, this ABC s (thk Friends but the early 2010s) prented viewers wh two very different versns of the gay male.