Love, Victor prov you don't need to be gay to play gay characters | Rad Tim

Contents:

• LOVE, VICTOR REVIEW: MORE GAY TEEN ANGST SOLID LOVE, SIMON SP-OFF
• IS MICHAEL CIMO GAY? WHO IS HE DATG?
• '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
• ‘LOVE, VICTOR’ STAR SAYS GAY ROLE SPARKED HOMOPHOBIA OM HIS FAY, ATH THREATS
• HULU’S LOVE, VICTOR IS UGHT UP THE MYTHOLOGY OF WHE GAYNS
• LOVE, VICTOR PROV YOU DON'T NEED TO BE GAY TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS
• HULU’S “LOVE, VICTOR”: ARE LAKE AND LUCY GAY OR BISEXUAL?

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

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.

IS MICHAEL CIMO GAY? WHO IS HE DATG?

Victor Salazar is a gay character om Love, Victor. An example of this was when stead of tellg his iends to not act, "that [gay] way" at his birthday party bee his father and grandfather told him to, he turned around and told them no.

Victor is gay, somethg that his fay is currently aware and acceptg of. By season 2 they eventfully bee an openly gay uple, which practilly everyone acceptg and supportive of their relatnship.

Victor and Rahim fally met when Pilar troduce them to each other, hop to get some advice to now openly gay kid Creek wood.

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

They the went to a gay bar, while performg on stage happily. The iend, who knew about the show, then said, “Isn’t there a whe gay guy?

” I said y and they then replied, “Let’s not pretend like [Victor’s] not gog to end up wh the basic whe gay. Benji prented the ia that he’s gay but has experimented wh women before.

But what’s worse than missg out on the opportuny to prent a Lato teen disverg his bisexualy, a story rarely seen entertament media, was the ia that Victor ultimately chose the “basic whe gay” my iend bemoaned about. His entire purpose is to be the hot gay guy that our ma character csh on. Meanwhile, we’re ma to watch Victor choose another person whose only character tras are that he works at a ffee shop, is a heavy-hand broken relatnship, and is gay.

LOVE, VICTOR REP: THE PERFECT LEVEL OF GAY

Keep md, bisexualy is not out of the norm for the source material and gay men are not the only LGBTQ stori told this anchise. The Homosapien Agenda by Becky Albertalli. “Over the season, Victor and Simon velop a rrponnce over Instagram DM, turng the character om the first movie to a gay mentor for the trated, sred, and nfed Victor.

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

Curly, by dog so, Love, Victor plit s own tentns regardg reprentatn, creatg and ntributg to a mythology of whe gayns. As he dol out advice on gettg ed to high school a new place, negotiatg nservative parents, and figurg out feelgs for a guy at school (Benji, also whe), Simon be one of the primary reference pots for Victor’s ia of gayns. Then he accepts Benji’s story of havg sex wh a girl as a precipice for intifyg as gay.

The problem here is the belief that gay stori are the flt for LGBTQ stori. The story of a closeted high schooler figurg out his sexualy had been told on the outskirts for years smaller films, but posng at the centre of a wi-releasg stud edy was unprecented, and s most succs was a sign yet aga that reprentatn is not only important but there’s not exactly been a sh to make more gay-onted films of s size sce (Billy Eichner’s Judd Apatow-produced Universal rom is set to be the next), s impact n be felt on the smaller screen as LGBT characters have ntued to further populate teen shows, om supportg characters Riverdale to, most notably, Euphoria which dared to allow a queer character to arrival of sp-off seri Love, Victor then feels both evable and many ways, harr to celebrate.

His fay is the relig, blue-llar equivalent of Simon’s, new to the area after a cross-untry move and, unsure of whether he’s gay or bisexual, Victor cis to reach out to Simon, rather angrily on Instagram, after a disastro first day at ’s a far-fetched vice that’s rried through the season, an almost nstant stream of msag between the pair that’s much ls volvg and much ls believable than the myster email flirtatn that powered the movie. It’s ls ncrete this time round wh Victor tryg to date a girl Mia (Rachel Naomi Hilson) while velopg a csh on a gay guy, Benji (Gee Sear), he works wh, and how this msy unsurens plays out is one of the show’s strengths, Aptaker and Berger refg to make as simple as Victor simply wantg a beard to throw others off the while the show do briefly dabble wh knottier issu of performative genr rol and hered bigotry, ’s a mostly easy ri, a slightly gay versn of a CW show but arguably, given how horny that work has bee, way more sexls. Makg Victor a twky, basketball-playg teen who fds iends stantly stas the fantasy world of the movie but oddly, the homophobic tnts that Simon and his gay classmate endured have been entirely excised.

HULU’S LOVE, VICTOR IS UGHT UP THE MYTHOLOGY OF WHE GAYNS

Benji, Victor’s openly gay object of affectn, appears to gli through school and the muny at large whout ristance om those around him, a utopian ial that’s sweet but unlikely. The mere existence of a gay-led teen show on a major streamg platform still feels like an enuragg move the right directn, but this is a baby step at bt. He beme one wh the character and played his part so perfectly that fans soon started wonrg if Michael is gay real life.

Michael Cimo do not intify as a gay person.

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

However, Michael has repeatedly mentned how exced he was to portray a gay person the show and how much work he put to thentite his performance.

In an terview wh People, Michael revealed that his gay played a signifint role gettg him ready for the show. That was a really big drivg force for me, as well as I have a lot of iends that are gay. On the flip si, Michael found himself an ongog bate that argued whether the portrayal of gay characters should be rtricted to real-life gay actors.

HULU’S “LOVE, VICTOR”: ARE LAKE AND LUCY GAY OR BISEXUAL?

Michael even mentned that numero people advised him agast playg a gay character for his first major role. Michael wanted to eradite the stereotype and stigma agast gay rol and th took up the challenge to portray Victor. Michael Cimo Has a Lot Common Wh His 'Love, Victor' CharacterMichael Cimo plays a teenager unsure of his sexualy 'Love, Victor, ' so 's hard not to wonr if he intifi as gay real Jun.

Michael told Good Morng Ameri that he wanted the role of Victor so badly bee his is gay.

"I was really drawn to the role bee my 's gay and I really wanted to kd of be that voice he didn't have, and for the other kids who are or were his posn, " he said.