Disney+'s 'High School Mil' Show Fally Inclus Out Gay Characters

Contents:

• 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'
• ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ AIRS GAY LOVE BALLAD FIRST FOR DISNEY

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

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. ”“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.

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

”It wasn’t until 2017’s “Andi Mack” that Disney Channel troduced s first gay ma character middle schooler Cys Goodman. 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. While most televisn was slow to diversify and bee an clive space for characters of all sexuali, the realm of gay teen shows seems to have been embraced by televisn favor. In the first season, Bobby realiz he's gay after he gets a csh on one of his bt iends.

Like most gay teen shows, HSMTMTS is full of adorable upl, but one of the bt is Seb and Carlos. One of those ghostly spirs happens to be Alex, the band's dmmer, who is gay. While Alex had a hard time beg gay when he was alive 1995, he hs off wh Willie, another ghostly spir.

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

The gay teen show matched up well wh the movie that me before. Through Kat's experienc, the show manag to shed light on bisexualy and the biphobia that occurs both straight muni and the LGBTQ+ muny, an always tertg topic for gay teen shows.

Brianna Hilbrand is the lead, and she is gay real life. One of those gay teen shows is the Swedish drama seri Young Royals. In the origal High School Mil movi, we never actually saw any kd of LGBTQ relatnship — and only last year did Kenny Ortega nfirm that Lus Grabeel's character was gay and would have "e out llege.

‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ AIRS GAY LOVE BALLAD FIRST FOR DISNEY

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.

" He add a gay pri flag emoji at the end of his tweet. While havg an openly gay uple was already a tone for Disney, the pair would soon be makg even more history. 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. "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.