Straight artists wrg about gay acceptance n be a mefield, but Greg Holn's "Boys the Street" offers one blueprt for succs
Contents:
- PRETTY LTLE LIARS SEASON 5 SPOILERS: GAY MALE CHARACTER BEG CONSIRED FOR 5B, TIME JUMP PAST COLLEGE, AND A 'SIGNIFINT' DEATH
- HOW GREG HOLN DID GAY ACCEPTANCE RIGHT ON 'BOYS THE STREET'
PRETTY LTLE LIARS SEASON 5 SPOILERS: GAY MALE CHARACTER BEG CONSIRED FOR 5B, TIME JUMP PAST COLLEGE, AND A 'SIGNIFINT' DEATH
The Liars thought that he was gay at first, sce he never tried to make a move on Aria, but they were wrong, as was shown that Holn had a csh on another girl at school. The Liars spect that Holn may be gay, bee of the fact that he lets Aria pretend to date him jt so she n meet Ezra. First, she believ him to be gay (thanks to her iends' suggtns), but later he fds a spic bag that she believed uld be dgs.
” Mostly, volv Holn and Aria meetg, spltg up for rpective activi, and meetg up aga before they go home om their Liars (and me, at the time) assumed that Holn was gay and hidg his liftyle om his parents. Spoilers also nfirm that "Pretty Ltle Liars" season 5B might troduce the show's first gay male character, which should juxtapose the female same-sex storyl beg drawn up between Alison, Paige, and Ey. Premierg on Freeform (then ABC Fay) 2010, the seri troduced a thoughtfully navigated g-out story for Ey (Shay Mchell), who was gay, and later for Alison, who is bisexual.
But maly, the new seri follows PLL's footsteps s tellg of stori wh a heart and s mment to movg the needle forward wh LGBTQ visibily TV -- pecially wh Sasha Pieterse's Alison leadg the show and wh the troductn of gay and bisexual male characters.
HOW GREG HOLN DID GAY ACCEPTANCE RIGHT ON 'BOYS THE STREET'
"We're very exced to have a gay male character and a bisexual character, and you may see a buddg lbian romance down the le. And that's even as the pilot episo, which troduc a new crew of pretty ltle liars cludg Sofia Carson's Ava, Sydney Park's Cal, and Eli Brown's gay cellist Dylan, clos wh a murr. At 23, Pieterse, between playg Alison for seven seasons and starrg the gay-themed teen edy G.
"Dylan is the first gay male character the Pretty Ltle Liars seri, and the bt part about is that 's not really addrsed. Is jt me, or is Holn Clfield gay?
As a closeted homosexual Holn's thoughts, actns remd me of me. Greg Holn’s “Boys the Street” is an emotnal acunt of a father g to accept his gay son, but over lunch New York a few weeks before the premiere of s mic vio, Holn sounds a ltle nervo about how will be received. ” Holn wrote “Boys the Street” after Krist Rso and Dannielle Owens-Reid, the -founrs of Everyone Is Gay, an anizatn that supports LGBTQ youth, asked him to ntribute to their 2014 fundraiser pilatn, The Gayt Compilatn Ever Ma II.