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• 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
• GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI HOPE TO BE THE REPRENTATN THEY NEVER HAD
• JOJO SIWA SAYS 'HSMTMTS' QUEER ROLE WAS 'REALLY SPECIAL:' 'NEVER PLAYED A GAY CHARACTER'
• DISNEY'S 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' FRANCHISE FALLY HAS A GAY TEEN CHARACTER
• TIM FERLE ON REVISG GAY HIGH SCHOOL ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL: THE MIL – THE SERI’
• DISNEY+ STAR FRANKIE RODRIGUEZ LOV PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER ON TV, HOP TO SPIRE OTHERS
• THE ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ SERI HAD A GAY LOVE SONG
• 'HSM' DIRECTOR CONFIRMS POPULAR CHARACTER IS INED GAY - INSI THE MAGIC
• ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ DIRECTOR REVEALS RYAN IS GAY, BUT WHY NOW?
• THE HIGH SCHOOL MIL FRANCHISE JT GOT ITS FIRST-EVER GAY COUPLE

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.

THANKS TO WHNEY HOTON, ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ HAS S FIRST GAY ROMANCE

”“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.

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.

On season 3 of High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri, JoJo Siwa plays Madison — a gay teen. Siwa, 19, spoke of her character, Madison, who is gay.

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

"I've never played a gay character — bis myself, and I'm not a character, I'm jt myself, but that's that's how looks to the world, " Siwa told Entertament Weekly. "But like, I don't know, bisexual, pansexual, queer, lbian, gay, straight. I always jt say gay bee jt kd of vers or queer bee I thk the keyword is ol, " she said.

The crop of buddg thpians Disney’s “High School Mil” is fally welg an openly gay teen to the mix.

Like his character, Rodriguez is gay and Latx, and se his stg the new seri as a reflectn of his own adolcent experience many ways. In 2017, one of the characters on the g-of-age seri “Andi Mack, ” Cys Goodman, was revealed to be gay that show’s send season. The show is noteworthy for cludg an out gay teenager, who even fds romance at his high school.

JOJO SIWA SAYS 'HSMTMTS' QUEER ROLE WAS 'REALLY SPECIAL:' 'NEVER PLAYED A GAY CHARACTER'

Queerty snagged a few mut wh Ferle to talk about the show, his reer, tegratg gay characters a Disney seri, and his future plans. The show is also notable for cludg Carlos (played by Frankie Rodriguez) as an out-gay high school stunt.

DISNEY'S 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' FRANCHISE FALLY HAS A GAY TEEN CHARACTER

Had you always wanted to clu a gay character? I grew up a theater kid, I’m gay, and I don’t thk you n do a show about the performg arts whout cludg an element of LGBTQ life. Carlos, as a character, is groundbreakg, that he’s an out-gay kid on a Disney show who is allowed to date.

Rodriguez, who is himself an out gay man, I wanted to lean to the thenticy and energy that Frankie brgs to the role and to his everyday life. Those stori are important to see—but if we want to change the nversatn around gay inty, we also need to see characters who jt are gay, already, and don’t have a problem wh . LGBTQ PriThe "High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri" star lov embracg his LGBTQ inty to play a gay character on Schmid Like most young Latx LGBTQ+ people, Frankie Rodriguez, who stars the Disney+ origal seri "High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri, " didn't have many role mols to look up to, pecially on televisn.

TIM FERLE ON REVISG GAY HIGH SCHOOL ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL: THE MIL – THE SERI’

"'Ugly Betty' was fely one of the first on to make me pse my tracks -- like I uld be on TV, " Rodriguez told On The Red Carpet's Karl the "High School Mil" spoff seri, Rodriguez plays Carlos -- a high school stunt who is also openly gay. "Growg up gay high school was a very specific experience and if you didn't go through , how are you supposed to draw om that? 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. That clus the show’s gay rep.

DISNEY+ STAR FRANKIE RODRIGUEZ LOV PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER ON TV, HOP TO SPIRE OTHERS

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. For years, who grew up watchg bated whether the of Ryan Evans, played by Lus Grabeel, may actually be gay.

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Related: OpEd: Disney Should Make Hercul’s Adoptive Parents a Gay Couple the Remake. What do you thk about Ryan beg nfirmed to be gay ?

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

Related: Disney’s new “High School Mil” seri will feature a flamboyantly gay character. High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri won the GLAAD Media Award 2020 for Outstandg Kids & Fay Programmg, part for s reprentatn of a gay lato stunt Carlos, who is played by out actor Frankie A. Ortega revealed that he didn’t thk was possible to have openly gay characters while makg the h that didn’t seem to stop Ortega.

'HSM' DIRECTOR CONFIRMS POPULAR CHARACTER IS INED GAY - INSI THE MAGIC

Ryan’s gay, right?

‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ DIRECTOR REVEALS RYAN IS GAY, BUT WHY NOW?

“There’s so many amazgly talented gay actors who uld do as well, and so if ‘High School Mil’ was ma today, I don’t know if I would play Ryan. For many, Ryan may have been the only gay person a young LGBTQIA+ dividual would have accs to seeg or a small way gettg to know. JoJo Siwa talks jog HSMTMTS as queer character: 'This was such a special role' "I've never played a gay character — bis myself, and I'm not a character, I'm jt myself, but that's how looks to the world.

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: THE MUSICAL: THE SERIES - "Camp Prom" (Disney/Anne Marie Fox) JoJo Siwa talks jog 'HSMTMTS' as queer character: 'This was such a special role' | Cred: Anne Marie Fox/Disney "I've never played a gay character — bis myself, and I'm not a character, I'm jt myself, but that's that's how looks to the world, " Siwa says. " She remembers how she would joke around wh her olr brother when she was younger, askg if he was gay, bee ep down she wonred if that would make okay for her to be too. "I would always like tell him that I wanted him to be gay, and my mom says that I'm really like, pre-wired, that that was me beg like, 'No, I'm a ltle gay, ' and my head, I was like, 'If he is, then I uld be, '" she says.

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

From Ni meetg her gay blogil dad to Maddox's relatnship wh Madison, the h seri ntu to go above and beyond when to LGBTQ+ reprentatn. Another add: "ashlyn and big red rng jt to tell each other that they’re both gay as fuck is my favore thg ever actually.

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. “There’s even more queer reprentatn this season that unfurls, ” he told Gayety. However, their plans are dispted when Disney announc the long-awaed High School Mil 4: The Rnn, which will shoot at their show is brgg HSM movie stars Corb Bl, Monique Coleman, Lus Grabeel, Bart Johnson, Alyson Reed, and Kaycee Stroh to play themselv while they film the ’ll miss you Your Se ArticlThis 'HSMTMTS' Character Had a Big Sexualy Revelatn This Week ›'High School Mil' Star Larry Saperste Com Out As Bisexual ›Joshua Bassett's 'High School Mil' Character Could Be Queer Soon ›JoJo Siwa Is Gut Starrg 'High School Mil' Season 3 ›'High School Mil's Ryan Evans Is Now Officially Gay ›Big Red Has Big News For Ashlyn This Exclive 'HSMTMTS' Season 4 Clip ›.