'High School Mil' (Fally!) Has an Out Gay Teen

Contents:

• THANKS TO WHNEY HOTON, ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ HAS S FIRST GAY ROMANCE
• THE HIGH SCHOOL MIL FRANCHISE JT GOT ITS FIRST-EVER GAY COUPLE
• HIGH SCHOOL MIL (FALLY!) HAS AN OUT GAY TEEN
• THE DIRECTOR OF "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" EXPLAED WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY AND SAID HE WOULD "COME OUT IN COLLEGE"

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

After three h movi, a ncert tour and untls stage productns, the “High School Mil” anchise troduc s first gay love story wh Friday’s episo of “High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri. ”“Today’s world” was the operative amework for approachg a kd of story that never played out the earlier “High School Mil” films, spe many speculatg — and hopg — that the anchise’s origal choreographer character, Ryan, might be gay.

Gay marriage wasn’t legal, so even though seems like that was 50 years away, really wasn’t, ” Rodriguez said. ”It wasn’t until 2017’s “Andi Mack” that Disney Channel troduced s first gay ma character middle schooler Cys Goodman.

Even as a teenager watchg High School Mil, was obv to me that Ryan Evans was gay. But now, a later, Disney+'s High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri is givg the LGBTQ+ muny the reprentatn the origals never one, there are at least two gay characters Carlos, a choreographer, and Seb, a teen boy who dns to play the tradnally female role of Sharpay East High School's productn of High School Mil. Though the movi never addrsed Ryan's sexualy, Lus Grabeel, who played him, seemgly nfirmed the character was gay a 2016 terview wh BuzzFeed.

THE HIGH SCHOOL MIL FRANCHISE JT GOT ITS FIRST-EVER GAY COUPLE

"After readg the script, the first thg I said to [director Kenny Ortega] was, 'OK, Kenny, Ryan's gay, right? I know 's Disney Channel so I'm not really gonna be gay, but I mean, yeah, right? Yeah, I knew I was gay high school, but I didn't tell anybody.

"Ryan is not officially gay any of the movi, " Grabeel said.

" Now image how helpful havg out gay characters will be. High School Mil has troduced s very first outwardly gay uple and storyle, a major step for the hugely popular Disney anchise that began origal Kenny Ortega-directed High School Mil film did clu some characters that many viewers believed to be queer, like teenage show choir star Ryan Evans or piano-player and poser Kelsi Neilsen.

HIGH SCHOOL MIL (FALLY!) HAS AN OUT GAY TEEN

From Ni meetg her gay blogil dad to Maddox's relatnship wh Madison, the h seri ntu to go above and beyond when to LGBTQ+ reprentatn. Another add: "ashlyn and big red rng jt to tell each other that they’re both gay as fuck is my favore thg ever actually.

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

In the origal High School Mil movi, we never actually saw any kd of LGBTQ relatnship — and only last year did Kenny Ortega nfirm that Lus Grabeel's character was gay and would have "e out llege.

The show is well known for some of s most popular on-screen upl, cludg Ricky and Ni, Ashlyn and Big Red, and Carlos and Seb, the first gay uple the High School Mil anchise.

Frankie Rodriguez and Joe Serafi play Carlos and Seb, the first gay uple the High School Mil anchise. While most televisn was slow to diversify and bee an clive space for characters of all sexuali, the realm of gay teen shows seems to have been embraced by televisn favor. In the first season, Bobby realiz he's gay after he gets a csh on one of his bt iends.