Gay Teens on TV: A Timele |

Contents:

• GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI FALLY GET A LOVE SONG OF THEIR OWN
• TIM FERLE ON REVISG GAY HIGH SCHOOL ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL: THE MIL – THE SERI’
• GAY TEEN ASKS STRAIGHT FOOTBALL TEAM PTA TO HOMEG
• THANKS TO WHNEY HOTON, ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ HAS S FIRST GAY ROMANCE
• CHE TV VIEWERS OUTRAGED BY SUDN CANCELLATN OF POPULAR GAY DRAMA
• IS “9/11 GAY DAD” THE MOST OFFENSIVE CARTOON EVER?

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.

The show is noteworthy for cludg an out gay teenager, who even fds romance at his high school. 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.

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.

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

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 . Gay teen asks straight football pta to homeg.

GAY TEEN ASKS STRAIGHT FOOTBALL TEAM PTA TO HOMEG

Gay teen asks straight football pta to homeg epic way.

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

A gay 17-year-old asked his high school's straight football pta to the homeg dance, and vio of the epic "proposal" has gone viral. "I know I'm gay, but n I take you straight to homeg?

CHE TV VIEWERS OUTRAGED BY SUDN CANCELLATN OF POPULAR GAY DRAMA

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IS “9/11 GAY DAD” THE MOST OFFENSIVE CARTOON EVER?

But that subtext be the leral text Rol Jon’s AMC seri, an adaptatn that fally lets the vampir be their big gay selv. The seri follows Louis Pote du Lac (Jab Anrson, Grey Worm om Game of Thron) as he reunts the wild tal of his life as a wealthy gay Black vampire 1900s New Orleans and the lover pann of Ltat (Sam Reid). What mak this new eratn of Interview so pellg, though (apart om beg super gay, of urse), is how updat Rice’s origal material to offer sharp social mentary on race, class, and sexualy.

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