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"High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri" on Disney+ troduced a gay love story volvg characters Carlos and Seb s Dec. 6 episo.

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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.

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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.

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”“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.

” 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.

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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. 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.

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Carlos beme the first openly gay character the High School Mil anchise when he was troduced the show’s first season. Stunts rally around cheer ach allegedly fired for beg gay. READ NEXTNew York Man Fatally Stabbed Possible Anti-Gay Hate CrimeKylie Mogue Announc Las Vegas RincyDeSantis Campaign Shar Homoerotic Ad Toutg Anti-LGBTQ RerdActor Tom Holland’s Gay Sex Scene Sparks Controversy.

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.

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“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’.

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.

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

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. 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. Andi Mack's Joshua Rh played the first-ever Disney Channel character to say "I'm gay" on the work.

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

"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.

“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.

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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’.

A (mostly) wholome uple, Seb (Joe Serafi) and Carlos (Frankie Rodriguez) are one of the most signifint gay upl Disney has created yet. Season 2 brought along the show’s (as well as Disney’s) first live-actn gay kiss “The Quceñero” episo, and Seb sgg “The Climb” for Carlos was practilly tear-ducg. While Seb tends to be the dzy type of character most of the time, when Carlos starts untentnally hurtg his feelgs, Seb begs to qutn if Carlos is only datg him bee they are the only two out gay kids East High.

Variety named Ortega as an honoree on s “Power of Pri” list and terviewed him about his long reer as an openly gay choreographer and director Hollywood as well as the queer athetic nng through his classic fay films, om Newsi and Hoc Poc to his more recent Disney Channel Origal Movi.

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RODRIGUEZ high school mil the mil the seri" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></picture></div></div></span><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE jCUnQr ptn ContentHearLeadAssetCaptn-hPWmSN eWQmYe"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd fEOCQm fNaHcW ptn__cred">Fred Hay/Courty Disney+</span></div></div></figure></div></div><asi class="PersistentAsiWrapper-VGrR oEIBz persistent-asi persistent-asi--align-left" style="posn:absolute;top:to;height:to" data-ttid="PersistentAsiWrapper"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jNgrSF sticky-box ContentHearPersistentAsi-fsnAmQ dFzKzm"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="SocialInsWrapper-hKMEXV ffgPVr social-ins social-ins--has-background ContentHearSocialIns-jzJiyg sDfbk social-ins--share"><ul data-ttid="socialInslist" class="SocialInsList-cHVTIA ivmblD social-ins__list"></ul></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></asi></hear></div><div data-attribute-verso-pattern="article-body" class="ArticlePageContentBackGround-cNiFNN kJkLmH article-body__ntent"><div class="ArticlePageChunksContent-etcMtP bwyLBj"><div data-ttid="ArticlePageChunks" class="ArticlePageChunks-fLyCVG eOdfIs"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa XtZXd body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>In s latt episo, <a href="><em>High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri</em></a> officially ma queer Disney history.</p><p>The episo — named “The Transformatn'' — premiered on July 16, and featur Disney’s first LGBTQ+ love song, a track tled “In a Heartbeat.” Sung by Frankie Rodriguez (Carlos) to Joe Serafi (Seb) — who <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">recently revealed they are also datg IRL</a> — the moment is one that mak history while highlightg the sential reprentatn that both actors wish they were exposed to growg up.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>“It’s so excg, and hopefully leav a blueprt for more opportuni to e for other queer actors out there,” Frankie tells <em>Teen Vogue</em>.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p>The song as a moment of healg for the uple who, throughout the episo, battle normal growg pas of a teenage relatnship. (<em><strong>Warng, light spoilers to follow!</strong></em>) As Carlos travels to Mexi for sprg break, heavily documentg the betiful scenery — and betiful men — he spots along the way, Seb, back home Salt Lake Cy, begs to bubble over wh some unrstandable jealo secury. He begs to wonr: <em>Is Carlos love wh me for me, or only bee I am the only other queer boy at East High?</em></p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="ql114i"></div></div><p>“In a Heartbeat” is the mend to heal the fan-favore relatnship, which Carlos prov, simply and soothgly, that Seb’s worri n be laid to rt.</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="image of JOE SERAFINI FRANKIE A. RODRIGUEZ High School Mil The Mil The Seri" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE jCUnQr ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI jqCsaX asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd fEOCQm fNaHcW ptn__cred">Fred Hay/Courty Disney+</span></div></figure><p>“It’s super meangful,” Joe tells <em>Teen Vogue</em>. “You n sometim doubt and wonr if this is all real? Is too good to be te? I feel like all of that is happeng for Seb.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>He adds, “They are jt another relatnship on the show. Their ma arcs aren’t about opprsn or beg that different. They have a relatnship jt like Ricky (<a href=">Joshua Bassett</a>) and Ni (<a href=">Olivia Rodrigo</a>) do, and I thk that’s what’s really awome about .”</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB kNleGZ sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="ksbed9"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="o77p2"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa XtZXd body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>The normalizatn of Seb and Carlos’ romance sets apart om other queer relatnships on screen which sexualy is a burn or hurdle to overe, rather than jt another tra of one’s personaly. “We're not tryg to achieve somethg crazy,” Frankie adds. “We jt want love and romance jt like everybody else. The song is about acceptance between the two, but then also, how they're beg prented to the world.”</p><p>Frankie attribut much of the show’s LGBTQ+ reprentatn to shownner Tim Ferle, a former Broadway performer turned thor, wrer, and creator extraordaire.</p><p>“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. Which then allows for a safe space for queer actors to step on set where you know you n be 100% yourself.”</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="image of JOE SERAFINI FRANKIE A. RODRIGUEZ om high school mil the mil the seri" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE jCUnQr ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI jqCsaX asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd fEOCQm fNaHcW ptn__cred">Fred Hay/Courty Disney+</span></div></figure><p>It’s often said that you n’t change the stori whout changg the storytellers, and wh Ferle behd the scen settg the tone for the characters — and actors who embody their every move – thentic reprentatn be more than jt a goal; It is a prry.</p><p>Lookg back, Frankie pots to <em>Will & Grace</em> as beg a turng pot for his exposure to queer characters, while Joe highlights shows like <em>Glee</em> and <em>Smash</em>. Yet the charismatic pair note that throughout their adolcence, childhood programmg never reflected the ternal whirlwds they faced throughout their self-disvery. That mak beg a part of <em>HSMTMTS</em> — a first of s kd seri — all the more revolutnary and impactful.</p><p>Both actors hope the episo — and entire show — challenge societal norms while remdg kids at home that they are never, even their darkt moments, alone. 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