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Contents:

• THE DIRECTOR OF "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" EXPLAED WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY AND SAID HE WOULD "COME OUT IN COLLEGE"
• THE ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ SERI HAD A GAY LOVE SONG
• THANKS TO WHNEY HOTON, ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ HAS S FIRST GAY ROMANCE
• 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL': WHAT LUS GRABEEL SAID ABOUT RYAN EVANS BEG GAY
• ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ DIRECTOR REVEALS RYAN IS GAY, BUT WHY NOW?

THE DIRECTOR OF "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" EXPLAED WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY AND SAID HE WOULD "COME OUT IN COLLEGE"

News·Posted on 1 Jul 2020The Director Of "High School Mil" Explaed Why Ryan Wasn't Openly Gay And Said He Would "Come Out In College""I was ncerned bee was fay and kids that Disney might not be ready to cross that le. In a new terview wh Variety, director Kenny Ortega opened up about his experience makg the High School Mil seri and said he thought the character of Ryan would have e out as gay later life. A lot of them see both Ryan and Kelsi — who went to prom together and had a subtle romantic storyle High School Mil 3 — as gay.

Both Ryan and Kelsie are gay and they were each other's beards for senr year.

THE ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ SERI HAD A GAY LOVE SONG

n you believe hsm they tried to pass off kelsi, a leral lbian, as a heterosexual who was datg ryan, a leral gay. Ryan om High School Mil has officially been nfirmed as gay and hontly we been knew. Here is the gayt HSM song om the whole three movi.

THANKS TO WHNEY HOTON, ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ HAS S FIRST GAY ROMANCE

everyone who grew up wh hsm, 10 years later, as adults: He Is Gay.

I Dont Dance Is Gay. But now Ortega has nfirmed Ryan would probably have e out as gay " llege", addg that his character the movi was "ls about g out and jt more about lettg his te lours e forward".

He went on to say that while Disney is "the most progrsive group of people" he's ever worked wh, he had ncerns that they "weren't ready" to have an openly gay character a Disney Channel movie 2006. I wanted people to thk, "That character's more plex than I thought, " stead of sayg, "Oh, he out pk and you know he's gay. He said director Kenny Ortega suggted the swap and "wasn't meant to be this homoerotic thg.

'HIGH SCHOOL MIL': WHAT LUS GRABEEL SAID ABOUT RYAN EVANS BEG GAY

"It wasn't meant to be this homoerotic thg, " Grabeel said of stume swap, "But I thk that Kenny knew a ltle b more about how that was gog to e out.

‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ DIRECTOR REVEALS RYAN IS GAY, BUT WHY NOW?

When High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri first buted 2019, we troduced you to the show’s gay character Carlos.

Rodriguez, Carlos is an openly gay teenager and “Broadway nerd” who’s taken on the role of choreographer for his school’s mil. That clus the show’s gay rep. Not only is he openly gay himself, but he and Joe Serafi started datg after meetg on the show two years ago.