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

Contents:

• ‘LOVE, VICTOR’ STAR SAYS GAY ROLE SPARKED HOMOPHOBIA OM HIS FAY, ATH THREATS
• 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
• GAY GAY
• ‘THERE’S NO WRONG WAY TO BE GAY’: BEHD THE SCEN OF LOVE, VICTOR
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• ‘LOVE, VICTOR’ REVIEW: TV’S CUTT GAY ROM-COM MATUR SEASON 2
• CAN ‘LOVE VICTOR’ FY THE STEREOTYP ABOUT GROWG UP GAY?
• LOVE, VICTOR PROV YOU DON'T NEED TO BE GAY TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS
• WHY ‘LOVE, VICTOR’ STAR MICHAEL CIMO TOOK A GAY ROLE AGAST INDTRY ADVICE
• GAY GAY
• LOVE, VICTOR REP: (S02E05) GAY GAY

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

Michael Cimo, the straight star of Hulu’s gay-themed g-of-age seri “Love, Victor, ” says he has been attacked by some the LGBTQ muny and even some of his own fay members. In a new terview wh Attu, Cimo — who plays the tular Victor — says: “I got some homophobic ments — I kd of expected that to happen. ”He add, “Some of them reached out, sayg, ‘You ed to be so ol; now you’re so gay.

“It’s weird … [the Latx muny] is liberal when to thgs about Latos, but when to gay rights, ’s like, eh, qutn mark, ” Cimo said the terview. ”In the Attu terview, Cimo said, “There’s nothg wrong wh beg gay.

’”Cimo has said multiple terviews that he has been warned agast takg gay rol for fear of typestg. Meanwhile, the young actor has also faced fierce blowback for takg a role that an out gay actor might have played. “But there are some straight actors who play gay characters, who are all about supportg LGBT rights while they’re promotg their project, but once they’re done, a year later, ’s kd of fotten.

LOVE, VICTOR REP: THE PERFECT LEVEL OF GAY

”Straight actors playg gay rol has been the subject of bate for some time, often hgg on Hollywood’s history of forcg gay actors to the closet real life and offerg only limed chanc to explore the humany of gay characters on-screen. Grant, who received an Osr nomatn for playg a gay character “Can You Ever Five Me?, ” said: “I’ve always had that ncern... The transgenr movement and the #MeToo movement means, how n you jtify heterosexual actors playg gay characters?

Criss, who has famoly played queer characters cludg Andrew Cunanan “The Assassatn of Gianni Versace: Amerin Crime Story” and Hedwig “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” onstage, said he wouldn’t take gay rol anymore, bee “I want to make sure I won’t be another straight boy takg a gay man’s role. Gay Gay.

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

Photo: Greg Gayne/ HULU. “What is the perfect level of gay that will keep everyone happy?

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That is the biggt qutn on Victor Salazar’s md, as he grappl wh his evolvg inty as an openly gay (former) star athlete at Creekwood High. 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? Then, at Benji’s after-school “fay and iends ncert, ” ’s llg Victor “the least gay gay person alive.

“Please tell me what’s the exact level of gay I should be, ” he tells Andrew. “Bee apparently, I’m too gay for the locker room, but I’m not gay enough for Benji and his iends.

‘THERE’S NO WRONG WAY TO BE GAY’: BEHD THE SCEN OF LOVE, VICTOR

If anyone has a problem wh , they n answer to me, ” Andrew says before Victor rightfully nonts him about not wantg to “risk your reputatn for the gay kid.

“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! Love, Victor Rep: The Perfect Level of Gay.

While Hollywood has broken new ground wh rerd LGBTQ reprentatn and nuanced gay storytellg, Walt Disney Co.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

That much-hyped "exclively gay moment" Disney's live-actn "Bety and the Beast?

Marvel's first openly gay character "Avengers: Endgame? " 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. But he quickly velops a secret csh on Benji (Gee Sear), an openly gay, almost illy dreamy barista at the ffee shop where Victor works part-time.

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

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CAN ‘LOVE VICTOR’ FY THE STEREOTYP ABOUT GROWG UP GAY?

Wh the ntext of the signifint role of parental support g out and the rpons of other Latx straight characters to their queer children on other televisn shows, Armando Salazar’s flawed, fearful, yet supportive rponse and emotnal stggle dispts machismo and the racialized homophobia often picted across a racially diverse ensemble st featurg queer Latos.

The flhed out storyl of ntrastg rpons by Lato TV parents to their gay sons dispts stereotypil pictns of (Lato) masculy light of the vulnerable risks Victor Salazar, a Lato gay male, take g out and his father. In “Gay Gay, ” the episo alternat between Isabel, ncerned wh his hband’s lack of vulnerabily, seekg unsel om her Catholic prit, and Armando seekg unsel regardg how to exprs support for his son durg this difficult time. Their distct stggl wh how to exprs support for their gay son adds tensn to their relatnship and “Table for Four, ” be a ntent pot regardg the potential for their renciliatn.

If fan fictn, tumblr, and social media posts regardg gay teen reprentatn have anythg to say about , Armando Salazar is the kd of father/parent gay teens dream of. Wrers and producers take great re broachg the difficult subject of a teenage cisman of lor’s life after he begs livg as a gay man a relatnship wh a whe gay peer.

LOVE, VICTOR PROV YOU DON'T NEED TO BE GAY TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS

Fan fictn wrers may have prumed his homo-antagonism bee of how season one episo “Sweet Sixteen, ” he stggled wh his own father’s rponse to Victor’s baby brother Adrian playg wh girl’s toys and Benji kissg his then boyiend at Victor’s birthday party.

In the historic evolutn of Latx LGBT characters’ blogil fay story arcs and narrativ, Armando Salazar’s story, like One Day at a Time’s Penelope, dispts the racialized homophobia of earlier reprentatns implicly showsed the evolutn of Ricky Santiago on My So-Called Life (ABC 1994-95), and Carlos Torr on Grey’s Anatomy. (ABC, 2006-2014) Love, Victor, for s classic teen dramedy angst, picts a gay workg-class Lato male’s stggle choosg to be out and who his gayns and/our g out procs needs to please.

The show – a sp-off of Love, Simon, a quietly groundbreakg film about a closeted gay teenager, based on a btsellg young adult novel by Becky Albertalli – was origally meant to be a part of the Disney+ slate of origal programmg. ‘It’s really important for young gay dienc to see themselv as the centre of the story’...

WHY ‘LOVE, VICTOR’ STAR MICHAEL CIMO TOOK A GAY ROLE AGAST INDTRY ADVICE

“Most of my characters, when I get to play the mom of a gay son, have been their champns – that’s a much more faiar road for me, ” she says. It’s always gog to be the disappotg father who don’t thk that homosexualy is OK. “In realy, there is no right way to be mascule, there is no right or wrong way to be gay and there is no right or wrong way to be a human beg.

GAY GAY

”Then there is Benji, Victor’s oh-so-adorable and, most importantly, out gay csh, played by the Brish actor Gee Sear.

LOVE, VICTOR REP: (S02E05) GAY GAY

Neher Cimo nor Sear is gay – and they are aware of the disurse around straight actors playg gay rol. ”The fact that the show had a predomantly straight st was one of the cricisms levied at Love, Simon, as was the versn of gay life – sexls and fairly heteronormative – that the film portrayed.

Yet, spe stg straight actors s lead gay rol, Love, Victor do attempt to right some wrongs, pecially later the seri.

“I thk one of the thgs that young LGBTQ+ people al wh is that they’re aaid of beg perceived as gay, so they reject thgs that feel overtly gay. “In 15 years of workg this dtry, I’ve never worked on a show that had a gay ma character, ” says Tanen.