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Contents:

• HIGH SCHOOL MIL THEORY SUGGTS TWO CHARACTERS WERE GAY AND A RELATNSHIP
• HIGH SCHOOL MIL DIRECTOR REVEALS WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY IN MOVI
• 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL': WHAT LUS GRABEEL SAID ABOUT RYAN EVANS BEG GAY
• 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' DIRECTOR SAYS DISNEY WASN'T READY FOR A GAY CHARACTER IN 2006

HIGH SCHOOL MIL THEORY SUGGTS TWO CHARACTERS WERE GAY AND A RELATNSHIP

However, fans now thk there was a homoerotic subtext that many viewers were missg all along.

Another fan of the films tweeted: "Chad and Ryan are gay" I say to the mic. " Elsewhere, another noted: "the high school mil 2 scene of I don’t dance is major gay vib between Ryan and chad. #hsm2 #DisneyPl " A different fan was nvced of Chad and Ryan's love story the third film: "m u s i c a l l y stick to the stat quo outdo i don't dance but 's all about the sweet gay character velopment on both ryan and chad's sis.

HIGH SCHOOL MIL DIRECTOR REVEALS WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY IN MOVI

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'HIGH SCHOOL MIL': WHAT LUS GRABEEL SAID ABOUT RYAN EVANS BEG GAY

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'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' DIRECTOR SAYS DISNEY WASN'T READY FOR A GAY CHARACTER IN 2006

While havg an openly gay uple was already a tone for Disney, the pair would soon be makg even more history. The director and choreographer of Disney’s “High School Mil” says he always saw one of the origal trilogy’s characters as part of the LGBTQ muny, though was never addrsed a Variety terview published Tuday, Kenny Ortega revealed that the character of Ryan Evans (played by Lus Grabeel) was nceived as a gay teen.

” Though Ortega praised Disney as “the most progrsive group of people I’ve ever worked wh, ” he said he didn’t thk the pany would’ve supported the ia of portrayg Ryan as openly gay 2006, when the origal “High School Mil” was produced. “I was ncerned bee was fay and kids, that Disney might not be ready to cross that le and move to that terrory yet, ” said Ortega, who is gay. ASSOCIATED PRESS“High School Mil” fans had long theorized that Ryan was gay bee of his terts and fashn choic, though the character never clarified his sexualy.