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• ‘LOVE, VICTOR’ STAR SAYS GAY ROLE SPARKED HOMOPHOBIA OM HIS FAY, ATH THREATS
• 'LOVE, VICTOR': HULU'S GAY TEEN ROM- WAS DUMPED BY DISNEY+: WHY THAT SENDS THE WRONG MSAGE
• LOVE, VICTOR REP: THE PERFECT LEVEL OF GAY
• HOW ‘LOVE, VICTOR’ CAPTUR ONE PARENT’S STGGLE TO ACCEPT HER GAY SON (EXCLUSIVE)
• ‘LOVE, VICTOR’ REVIEW: TV’S CUTT GAY ROM-COM MATUR SEASON 2
• CAN ‘LOVE VICTOR’ FY THE STEREOTYP ABOUT GROWG UP GAY?
• LOVE, VICTOR REVIEW: MORE GAY TEEN ANGST SOLID LOVE, SIMON SP-OFF
• ‘THERE’S NO WRONG WAY TO BE GAY’: BEHD THE SCEN OF LOVE, VICTOR
• 'LOVE, VICTOR' :'' SEASON 2 TRAILER' ' TEAS WHAT'S NEXT FOR VICTOR SALAZAR AFTER HE COM OUT AS GAY
• LOVE, VICTOR PROV YOU DON'T NEED TO BE GAY TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS

‘LOVE, VICTOR’ STAR SAYS GAY ROLE SPARKED HOMOPHOBIA OM HIS FAY, ATH THREATS

Specifilly, Victor's journey to disver his sexualy sets Love, Victor apart om Love, Simon a big the first few mut of Love, Simon, viewers learned the ma character, Simon, is gay, when the narratn allus to a csh he has on a garner. Victor's story, however, begs when he's a sophomore, and unlike Simon, he don't yet know what is sexualy is. Unlike Simon, whose journey the movie was centered on his g-out, Victor's Season 1 story was about a cliffhanger of a Season 1 fale — Victor's parents tellg him they're separatg and him tellg them he's gay return — fans are hopeful this is jt the start of Victor's story, and that a Season 2 will follow up wh his next, Victor Season 1 is streamg now on Hulu.

'LOVE, VICTOR': HULU'S GAY TEEN ROM- WAS DUMPED BY DISNEY+: WHY THAT SENDS THE WRONG MSAGE

Michael Cimo, the straight star of Hulu’s gay-themed g-of-age seri “Love, Victor, ” says he has been attacked by some the LGBTQ muny and even some of his own fay members.

In a new terview wh Attu, Cimo — who plays the tular Victor — says: “I got some homophobic ments — I kd of expected that to happen. ”He add, “Some of them reached out, sayg, ‘You ed to be so ol; now you’re so gay.

“It’s weird … [the Latx muny] is liberal when to thgs about Latos, but when to gay rights, ’s like, eh, qutn mark, ” Cimo said the terview. ”In the Attu terview, Cimo said, “There’s nothg wrong wh beg gay.

LOVE, VICTOR REP: THE PERFECT LEVEL OF GAY

’”Cimo has said multiple terviews that he has been warned agast takg gay rol for fear of typestg. Meanwhile, the young actor has also faced fierce blowback for takg a role that an out gay actor might have played.

“But there are some straight actors who play gay characters, who are all about supportg LGBT rights while they’re promotg their project, but once they’re done, a year later, ’s kd of fotten.

”Straight actors playg gay rol has been the subject of bate for some time, often hgg on Hollywood’s history of forcg gay actors to the closet real life and offerg only limed chanc to explore the humany of gay characters on-screen. Grant, who received an Osr nomatn for playg a gay character “Can You Ever Five Me?, ” said: “I’ve always had that ncern... The transgenr movement and the #MeToo movement means, how n you jtify heterosexual actors playg gay characters?

HOW ‘LOVE, VICTOR’ CAPTUR ONE PARENT’S STGGLE TO ACCEPT HER GAY SON (EXCLUSIVE)

Criss, who has famoly played queer characters cludg Andrew Cunanan “The Assassatn of Gianni Versace: Amerin Crime Story” and Hedwig “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” onstage, said he wouldn’t take gay rol anymore, bee “I want to make sure I won’t be another straight boy takg a gay man’s role.

‘LOVE, VICTOR’ REVIEW: TV’S CUTT GAY ROM-COM MATUR SEASON 2

While Hollywood has broken new ground wh rerd LGBTQ reprentatn and nuanced gay storytellg, Walt Disney Co. That much-hyped "exclively gay moment" Disney's live-actn "Bety and the Beast? Marvel's first openly gay character "Avengers: Endgame?

" So I was disappoted, but not at all surprised, when Disney+ revealed Febary that "Love, Victor" – a seri spoff of groundbreakg 2018 gay movie "Love, Simon" – would no longer premiere on the fay-iendly service due to s "adult them.

CAN ‘LOVE VICTOR’ FY THE STEREOTYP ABOUT GROWG UP GAY?

More:Watch the LGBTQ-iendly TV shows, films to honor Pri MonthHavg watched the 10-episo first season of "Love, Victor, " 's hard not to see Disney+'s choice to dump the g-of-age edy as wardly and homophobic; an easy way of passg off the show to sister service Hulu, whout any of the potential backlash om tolerant, pearl-clutchg "Love, Simon, " " Victor" centers on a wsome high-school boy stgglg to e to terms wh his sexualy.

LOVE, VICTOR REVIEW: MORE GAY TEEN ANGST SOLID LOVE, SIMON SP-OFF

But he quickly velops a secret csh on Benji (Gee Sear), an openly gay, almost illy dreamy barista at the ffee shop where Victor works part-time. In fact, tak Victor almost the entire season to even say the word "gay.

One uld argue that "Love, Victor" is on Hulu, rather than Disney+, bee of subject matter that has nothg to do wh s ma character beg gay.

Gay Gay. Photo: Greg Gayne/ HULU. “What is the perfect level of gay that will keep everyone happy?

‘THERE’S NO WRONG WAY TO BE GAY’: BEHD THE SCEN OF LOVE, VICTOR

That is the biggt qutn on Victor Salazar’s md, as he grappl wh his evolvg inty as an openly gay (former) star athlete at Creekwood High.

After reachg a major tone his relatnship wh Benji, Victor — who was told last season that “there’s no one way to be gay” — is forced to nont another load qutn: Is he willg to sacrifice a part of his inty to fe a new one? Then, at Benji’s after-school “fay and iends ncert, ” ’s llg Victor “the least gay gay person alive. “Please tell me what’s the exact level of gay I should be, ” he tells Andrew.

'LOVE, VICTOR' :'' SEASON 2 TRAILER' ' TEAS WHAT'S NEXT FOR VICTOR SALAZAR AFTER HE COM OUT AS GAY

“Bee apparently, I’m too gay for the locker room, but I’m not gay enough for Benji and his iends. If anyone has a problem wh , they n answer to me, ” Andrew says before Victor rightfully nonts him about not wantg to “risk your reputatn for the gay kid.

LOVE, VICTOR PROV YOU DON'T NEED TO BE GAY TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS

“This is our way of sayg that you n be as gay as you want, whatever way that you want, and we will forever stand [by] you, ” Andrew says, before the other teammat the moment (but, hey, at least they are tryg!

Love, Victor Rep: The Perfect Level of Gay. The send season of “Love, Victor” — the spoff seri of the groundbreakg 2018 g out feature “Love, Simon” — picks up right where the first left off, wh Atlanta teenager Victor Salazar (Michael Cimo) tellg his parents that he’s gay.