Contents:
- GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI FALLY GET A LOVE SONG OF THEIR OWN
- ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ AIRS GAY LOVE BALLAD FIRST FOR DISNEY
- THE HIGH SCHOOL MIL FRANCHISE JT GOT ITS FIRST-EVER GAY COUPLE
- GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI HOPE TO BE THE REPRENTATN THEY NEVER HAD
GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI FALLY GET A LOVE SONG OF THEIR OWN
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.”It’s a major moment for the non and for Disney. We’re all jt out here lovg each other and mdg our own bs.”“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.“Maybe 13 years ago wasn’t, even then, the time to embrace that fully,” Ferle said.
Gay marriage wasn’t legal, so even though seems like that was 50 years away, really wasn’t,” Rodriguez said. “[The seri is] really sheddg light as to what high school life is like right now and makg sure that those kids that have never seen themselv onscreen have, fally, someone to nnect to.”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. Durg the send season of the show, beme the first to have a proment gay romance and then same-sex kiss between Frankie Rodriguez and Joe Serafi’s Carlos and Sebastian. While havg an openly gay uple was already a tone for Disney, the pair would soon be makg even more history.
‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ AIRS GAY LOVE BALLAD FIRST FOR DISNEY
Disney streamg seri High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri has marked a major tone for the pany after butg a gay love ballad.
THE HIGH SCHOOL MIL FRANCHISE JT GOT ITS FIRST-EVER GAY COUPLE
Carlos beme the first openly gay character the High School Mil anchise when he was troduced the show’s first season. Stunts rally around cheer ach allegedly fired for beg gay.
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It’s jarrg to look back on the High School Mil anchise and realize that three movi about amb theater stunts puttg on shows, there were absolutely zero nonilly gay characters. And yet, that’s where we land, spe psdo-villa Ryan Evans beg read as queer by basilly anyone wh High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri, a Disney+ seri followg a (fictnal) high school as they try to put on High School Mil as a stage productn, is fally givg the gay theater ntent we so obvly served om the very first HSM. Rodriguez plays Carlos, the anchise’s very first out gay character and choreographer of High School Mil wh the seri.
GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI HOPE TO BE THE REPRENTATN THEY NEVER HAD
It’s not about Carlos stgglg wh beg gay, ’s about him navigatg through alg wh your first csh, your first date, your first relatnship. ”Of urse, as meangful as this storyle is both for young teens and for queer lennials who grew up watchg High School Mil, there’s the expected outcry om nservativ who say that Disney is phg a queer agenda by allowg gay people to exist a show about… no matter how much they hate , happened! While certa viewers did raise ncerns about Seblos beg very surface level, I do thk HSMTMTS should be given pots for showg a romantic relatnship between two gay lead characters (beg played by two openly queer actors).
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.