How 'High School Mil' Blsed Us wh Disney's First Gay Love Song

Contents:

• GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI FALLY GET A LOVE SONG OF THEIR OWN
• CELEBRATG PRI WH… FRANKIE RODRIGUEZ: BEG PART OF DISNEY’S FIRST GAY ROMANCE IS A ‘DREAM COME TE’
• THANKS TO WHNEY HOTON, ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ HAS S FIRST GAY ROMANCE
• GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI HOPE TO BE THE REPRENTATN THEY NEVER HAD
• HIGH SCHOOL MIL (FALLY!) HAS AN OUT GAY TEEN
• ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ STAR AND HIS CHARACTER ARE BOTH GAY. IT’S NO BIG AL — EXCEPT WHEN TO REPRENTATN.
• THE ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ SERI HAD A GAY LOVE SONG
• THE HIGH SCHOOL MIL FRANCHISE JT GOT ITS FIRST-EVER GAY COUPLE
• HOW HIGH SCHOOL MIL BLSED US WH DISNEY'S FIRST GAY LOVE SONG
• ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ AIRS GAY LOVE BALLAD FIRST FOR DISNEY
• CELEBRATG PRI WH… FRANKIE RODRIGUEZ: BEG PART OF DISNEY’S FIRST GAY ROMANCE IS A ‘DREAM COME TE’
• GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI HOPE TO BE THE REPRENTATN THEY NEVER HAD

GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI FALLY GET A LOVE SONG OF THEIR OWN

The romance between East High School’s gay teens epens on “High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri” this week wh the but of a tenr love ballad.

Season 1 of “High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri” garnered praise ahead of s 2019 Disney+ premiere for troducg Carlos as the anchise’s first-ever gay teen. He’s the first openly gay character the High School Mil anchise. The uple ma history as Disney’s first-ever gay romance.

CELEBRATG PRI WH… FRANKIE RODRIGUEZ: BEG PART OF DISNEY’S FIRST GAY ROMANCE IS A ‘DREAM COME TE’

When you really stop and thk about I was like: is he really the only lennial-ish gay pop star?

But also to have an openly gay shownner [Tim Ferle] who is jt really champng for the characters is jt the bt. 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. Rodriguez stars on the Disney+ seri as stunt choreographer Carlos at Utah’s East High School who ― what was billed as a anchise first at the time of the show’s 2019 but ― is gay.

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

” So, hdsight, may surprise viewers that “HSM” never clud an openly gay character until now.

Disney+/Fred HayThough the origal “High School Mil” featured Ryan Evans (Lus Grabeel), the tw brother of Ashley Tisdale’s Sharpay who was wily assumed to be gay, the character never formally addrsed his sexualy. In the mockumentary-style show, Rodriguez plays Carlos, the gay choreographer of East High's stagg of High School Mil. The actor is gay and Latx -- and his character Carlos is as well.

For Disney, the cln of a queer character kids' entertament is a big al; the fay-foced pany only recently rporated a gay teen on Disney Channel's recently nceled Andy Mack, and the stud has yet to troduce an LGBTQ character one of s major films. He relled watchg the gay teen character of Jt Suarez (Mark Inlito) on ABC's Ugly Betty, which was "was md-blowg, " he said. "I'm very happy that I got to portray this role bee I was drawg on so much of my actual high school experience and brgg that to the character, " he Carlos, whose sexualy is not an issue for his classmat around him, Rodriguez do not have the "dramatic story beg shoved to lockers" that one might associate wh stori about gay teens -- Glee clud.

GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI HOPE TO BE THE REPRENTATN THEY NEVER HAD

However, his fears were assuaged by Tim Ferle, the gay creator and shownner of High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri, who helped create a role that was "anic" and "te to life. The origal High School Mil movi, directed by gay man Kenny Ortega (bizarrely! He’s a teenager who, Season 1, experienc first, oh yeah, he’s gay.

Rodriguez is the first openly gay actor “High School Mil, ” and Carlos — one of 10 first-season regular characters — is the first openly gay regular the anchise. So while the show is not about gay kids, the school is portrayed as a place where a gay kid is safe and accepted.

“The arts saved my life when I was a kid, ” said Ferle, who also is openly gay. So Carlos is only the send gay regular a Disney seri; the first was Cys (Joshua Rh) “Andi Mack” — another ma--Utah unlike Cys, Carlos is out om the get-go. “For kids, wasn’t as big a al bee beg gay isn’t a big al.

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

Betty’s young nephew, Jt (Mark Inlito), was both Hispanic and gay.

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

‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ STAR AND HIS CHARACTER ARE BOTH GAY. IT’S NO BIG AL — EXCEPT WHEN TO REPRENTATN.

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.

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

Not only is he openly gay himself, but he and Joe Serafi started datg after meetg on the show two years ago. This new wave seems to have started when a character om the Disney Channel show Andi Mack me out as gay. He was a Sophomore at East High School Season 1 and Season 2.

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

[2] Carlos is gay and Mexin. We're troduced to Carlos on the first day of his sophomore year at East High School.

HOW HIGH SCHOOL MIL BLSED US WH DISNEY'S FIRST GAY LOVE SONG

"I'm Mexin and gay, this is my si voice! He is Gay and is currently datg Seb Matthew-Smh.

While havg an openly gay uple was already a tone for Disney, the pair would soon be makg even more history.

‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ AIRS GAY LOVE BALLAD FIRST FOR DISNEY

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. Rodrgiuez as Carlos [right] High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri)Wh two seasons already unr s belt, the seri (helmed by gay shownner Tim Ferle) is sgle-handly rponsible for brgg one of TV's more well-wrten and thentic young queer upl, Seb and Carlos (affectnately known as Seblos to their stans), to dienc all over. "It's crazy excg, " Rodriguez (who is gay and datg his star Serafi, who is bisexual, real life) says of beg a part of a seri -- and a generatn -- where queer characters get to she.

CELEBRATG PRI WH… FRANKIE RODRIGUEZ: BEG PART OF DISNEY’S FIRST GAY ROMANCE IS A ‘DREAM COME TE’

'"That wasn't the only moment season 2 that gave gay High School Mil fans everythg they uld ever want.

High School Mil fans will already know that Carlos and Seb are the anchise's first-ever gay uple. He is the first openly gay character the HSM anchise.

GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI HOPE TO BE THE REPRENTATN THEY NEVER HAD

This wouldn’t be the first time a character on a Disney seri was gay, or even on a Disney+ seri. “When [Twter] blew up over Ricky’s Pri shirt beg like ‘y gay rights!! Now that’s gay rights, ” one Twter er wrote.