Kenny Ortega Confirms Ryan From ‘High School Mil’ Is Gay

Contents:

• GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI FALLY GET A LOVE SONG OF THEIR OWN
• THANKS TO WHNEY HOTON, ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ HAS S FIRST GAY ROMANCE
• THE HIGH SCHOOL MIL FRANCHISE JT GOT ITS FIRST-EVER GAY COUPLE
• GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI HOPE TO BE THE REPRENTATN THEY NEVER HAD
• ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ AIRS GAY LOVE BALLAD FIRST FOR DISNEY
• DISNEY’S HIGH SCHOOL MIL FALLY TRODUC FIRST GAY ROMANCE
• THE ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ SERI HAD A GAY LOVE SONG
• FRANKIE RODRIGUEZ & JOE SERAFI ON GAYG DISNEY ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL: THE MIL: THE SERI’
• KENNY ORTEGA SAYS RYAN OM HIGH SCHOOL MIL WAS ‘PROBABLY’ GAY

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. 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.

While havg an openly gay uple was already a tone for Disney, the pair would soon be makg even more history. 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. 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 first season, Bobby realiz he's gay after he gets a csh on one of his bt iends.

One of those ghostly spirs happens to be Alex, the band's dmmer, who also happens to be gay.

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

While Alex had a hard time beg gay when he was alive 1995, he quickly hs off wh Willie, another ghostly spir. Disney streamg seri High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri has marked a major tone for the pany after butg a gay love ballad. Carlos beme the first openly gay character the High School Mil anchise when he was troduced the show’s first season.

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

While the origal High School Mil film seri featured a character most viewers jt assumed was gay (Lus Grabeel’s Ryan Evans), this new show marks an out and proud LGBTQ character the form of Carlos (Frankie Rodriguez).

“I hope that viewers n take away that beg yourself really will get you so much further than tryg to be somebody else, and I thk that n spread across lerally anythg, ” Frankie told back November for his GAY TIMES Amplify ver.

“Growg up there wasn’t a lot that I was able to watch on televisn that I uld intify wh, wasn’t really until Will & Grace that I saw gay men on televisn jt livg their liv, and I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, they’re normal jt like everybody else’.

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

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.

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.

DISNEY’S HIGH SCHOOL MIL FALLY TRODUC FIRST GAY ROMANCE

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.

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

This new wave seems to have started when a character om the Disney Channel show Andi Mack me out as gay. "The vio was to reprent the young woman today -- 's not the tradnal woman anymore -- and not the specifics of 'Am I gay?

Rodriguez plays gay high school stunt, choreographer, assistant director, and actor Carlos Disney+'s High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri.

FRANKIE RODRIGUEZ & JOE SERAFI ON GAYG DISNEY ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL: THE MIL: THE SERI’

Andi Mack's Joshua Rh played the first-ever Disney Channel character to say "I'm gay" on the work. "I suffered wh some level of my own ternalized homophobia even while playg the first openly gay character on Disney Channel.

Garrett Clayton has appeared the DCOM Teen Beach Movie and the Disney show Shake It Up, before starrg the gay porn te crime movie Kg Cobra. High School Mil fans will already know that Carlos and Seb are the anchise's first-ever gay uple.

KENNY ORTEGA SAYS RYAN OM HIGH SCHOOL MIL WAS ‘PROBABLY’ GAY

“Not only are we playg queer characters, but we're also on a Disney show that has an openly gay shownner advotg to make sure that our stori are told and done an appropriate, accurate way. School is back ssn, and gay love is the air.

For Rodriguez & Serafi, landg the rol of the most proment gay uple on Disney+ reprents jt another step two already trigug reers.

We snagged time wh Rodriguez & Serafi to chat about the show, the prsur of playg a gay uple for Disney and what to expect om the new season. That might be the first gay relatnship the history of Disney+. Related: Tim Ferle on revisg gay high school ‘High School Mil: The Mil – The Seri’.