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PRETTY LITTLE LIARS: SO EY IS GAY BUT HANNA’S BOYIEND IS TOO, RIGHT?!
Premierg on Freeform (then ABC Fay) 2010, the seri troduced a thoughtfully navigated g-out story for Ey (Shay Mchell), who was gay, and later for Alison, who is bisexual. But maly, the new seri follows PLL's footsteps s tellg of stori wh a heart and s mment to movg the needle forward wh LGBTQ visibily TV -- pecially wh Sasha Pieterse's Alison leadg the show and wh the troductn of gay and bisexual male characters.
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IS EY OM PLL GAY REAL LIFE?
At 23, Pieterse, between playg Alison for seven seasons and starrg the gay-themed teen edy G. "Dylan is the first gay male character the Pretty Ltle Liars seri, and the bt part about is that 's not really addrsed. Ey wouldn't accept that she was gay which forced the pair to separate until Ey fally accepted her lbianism.
Ey often stggled wh PDA ont of her parents due to their slow acceptance of Ey beg gay. In the books, after her parents fd out that she kissed Maya, they orr her to enroll a reformg program for gay people lled Tree Tops or else she would be sent to Iowa to stay wh her stere relativ. Ey: Yeah, but nothg that dulls my [about Alison]: I loved her as more than a If lyg was a crime, we'd all be Is this a gay thg?
In the show, Mchell’s character Ey is gay. People news picturShow all 18“I’ve been readg a lot of speculatn onle as to whether I’m straight, or gay, or bi, and all the labels are a ltle b old-fashned, which is why I’m not gog to label myself, ” he said.