Like his "High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri" character, Frankie Rodriguez shar that he is also gay, open and proud.
Contents:
- THE DIRECTOR OF "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" EXPLAED WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY AND SAID HE WOULD "COME OUT IN COLLEGE"
- GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI FALLY GET A LOVE SONG OF THEIR OWN
- LUS GRABEEL SAYS HE WOULDN'T PLAY GAY 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' ROLE NOW
- THANKS TO WHNEY HOTON, ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ HAS S FIRST GAY ROMANCE
- ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ AIRS GAY LOVE BALLAD FIRST FOR DISNEY
- DISNEY PRENTS ‘GROUNDBREAKG’ FIRST GAY LOVE SONG ON ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ TV SERI
- KENNY ORTEGA SAYS RYAN OM HIGH SCHOOL MIL WAS ‘PROBABLY’ GAY
- THE HIGH SCHOOL MIL FRANCHISE JT GOT ITS FIRST-EVER GAY COUPLE
- 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' DIRECTOR DIDN'T THK DISNEY WOULD HAVE ALLOWED AN OPENLY GAY CHARACTER 2006
- HIGH SCHOOL MIL (FALLY!) HAS AN OUT GAY TEEN
- GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI HOPE TO BE THE REPRENTATN THEY NEVER HAD
- THE ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ SERI HAD A GAY LOVE SONG
- DISNEY+ STAR FRANKIE RODRIGUEZ LOV PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER ON TV, HOP TO SPIRE OTHERS
THE DIRECTOR OF "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" EXPLAED WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY AND SAID HE WOULD "COME OUT IN COLLEGE"
Lus Grabeel thks he would not be st to play the gay character, Ryan, if "High School Mil" were beg produced today. * gay dude from high school musical *
News·Posted on 1 Jul 2020The Director Of "High School Mil" Explaed Why Ryan Wasn't Openly Gay And Said He Would "Come Out In College""I was ncerned bee was fay and kids that Disney might not be ready to cross that le. In a new terview wh Variety, director Kenny Ortega opened up about his experience makg the High School Mil seri and said he thought the character of Ryan would have e out as gay later life.
A lot of them see both Ryan and Kelsi — who went to prom together and had a subtle romantic storyle High School Mil 3 — as gay. Both Ryan and Kelsie are gay and they were each other's beards for senr year. n you believe hsm they tried to pass off kelsi, a leral lbian, as a heterosexual who was datg ryan, a leral gay.
GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI FALLY GET A LOVE SONG OF THEIR OWN
"High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri" on Disney+ troduced a gay love story volvg characters Carlos and Seb s Dec. 6 episo. * gay dude from high school musical *
Ryan om High School Mil has officially been nfirmed as gay and hontly we been knew.
LUS GRABEEL SAYS HE WOULDN'T PLAY GAY 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' ROLE NOW
“Queer Disney history” was ma on Friday when the absurdly tled High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri buted the kids entertament giant’s first ever gay love song between two boys on Disney+. * gay dude from high school musical *
Here is the gayt HSM song om the whole three movi.
everyone who grew up wh hsm, 10 years later, as adults: He Is Gay. I Dont Dance Is Gay. But now Ortega has nfirmed Ryan would probably have e out as gay " llege", addg that his character the movi was "ls about g out and jt more about lettg his te lours e forward".
THANKS TO WHNEY HOTON, ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ HAS S FIRST GAY ROMANCE
Even as a teenager watchg High School Mil, was obv to me that Ryan Evans was gay. Of urse, the movi never said that, and he even end up datg a girl by the end of the anchise; apparently, was too taboo the mid-2000s to… * gay dude from high school musical *
He went on to say that while Disney is "the most progrsive group of people" he's ever worked wh, he had ncerns that they "weren't ready" to have an openly gay character a Disney Channel movie 2006. I wanted people to thk, "That character's more plex than I thought, " stead of sayg, "Oh, he out pk and you know he's gay.
‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ AIRS GAY LOVE BALLAD FIRST FOR DISNEY
"There's so many amazgly talented gay actors that uld do as well," Grabeel said an terview wh TMZ. * gay dude from high school musical *
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. Gay 'High School Mil' Character.
Lus Grabeel, who played Ryan "High School Mil, " says he would steer clear om the gay character role nowadays...
DISNEY PRENTS ‘GROUNDBREAKG’ FIRST GAY LOVE SONG ON ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ TV SERI
So as not to take a job away om a gay actor.
KENNY ORTEGA SAYS RYAN OM HIGH SCHOOL MIL WAS ‘PROBABLY’ GAY
The director behd 'HSM' recently revealed Ryan was gay all along, but he says Ryan wasn't openly gay the movi, bee back 2006 he didn't thk Disney was ready for such a character.
And he thks a gay actor would be st for the role if the movie was beg ma today, and he hop the character would not have to hi his inty. As for gay characters like Ryan, Lus says 's fally time for Disney and others the dtry to start tg children about gay people at the youngt age possible.
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.
THE HIGH SCHOOL MIL FRANCHISE JT GOT ITS FIRST-EVER GAY COUPLE
Gay marriage wasn’t legal, so even though seems like that was 50 years away, really wasn’t, ” Rodriguez said. ”It wasn’t until 2017’s “Andi Mack” that Disney Channel troduced s first gay ma character middle schooler Cys Goodman.
Disney streamg seri High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri has marked a major tone for the pany after butg a gay love ballad.
'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' DIRECTOR DIDN'T THK DISNEY WOULD HAVE ALLOWED AN OPENLY GAY CHARACTER 2006
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. While havg an openly gay uple was already a tone for Disney, the pair would soon be makg even more history.
“Queer Disney history” was ma on Friday when the absurdly tled High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri buted the kids entertament giant’s first ever gay love song between two boys on Disney+. The lyrics themselv aren’t explicly gay but the fact that ’s one boy sgg about his love for another boy was enough for the media to gh over.
HIGH SCHOOL MIL (FALLY!) HAS AN OUT GAY TEEN
The gay teen romance was first troduced season 1 and the show has been phg gay pri sce the begng, not to mentn hailg AOC, Greta Thunberg, and Michelle Obama as teen idols. Variety named Ortega as an honoree on s “Power of Pri” list and terviewed him about his long reer as an openly gay choreographer and director Hollywood as well as the queer athetic nng through his classic fay films, om Newsi and Hoc Poc to his more recent Disney Channel Origal Movi.
GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI HOPE TO BE THE REPRENTATN THEY NEVER HAD
” When asked if would have been possible to wre Ryan as openly gay a Bh admistratn–era Disney Channel movie, Ortega answered:. The fact that, 2020, Disney was velopg the gay-teen seri Love, Victor for Disney+ shows how far the stud has e.
Kenny Ortega Says High School Mil’s Ryan ‘Probably’ Gay. High School Mil has troduced s very first outwardly gay uple and storyle, a major step for the hugely popular Disney anchise that began origal Kenny Ortega-directed High School Mil film did clu some characters that many viewers believed to be queer, like teenage show choir star Ryan Evans or piano-player and poser Kelsi Neilsen. While makg the 2006 Disney Channel movie "High School Mil, " director Kenny Ortega didn't thk Disney would allow the character Ryan (Lus Grabeel) to be openly gay.
THE ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ SERI HAD A GAY LOVE SONG
"I jt took upon myself to make choic that I felt that those who were watchg would grab, " add Ortega, who is gay.
“People have always asked me if Ryan was gay, " he told TVLe last year. In the mockumentary-style show, Rodriguez plays Carlos, the gay choreographer of East High's stagg of High School Mil.
The actor is gay and Latx -- and his character Carlos is as well. For Disney, the cln of a queer character kids' entertament is a big al; the fay-foced pany only recently rporated a gay teen on Disney Channel's recently nceled Andy Mack, and the stud has yet to troduce an LGBTQ character one of s major films. He relled watchg the gay teen character of Jt Suarez (Mark Inlito) on ABC's Ugly Betty, which was "was md-blowg, " he said.
DISNEY+ STAR FRANKIE RODRIGUEZ LOV PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER ON TV, HOP TO SPIRE OTHERS
"I'm very happy that I got to portray this role bee I was drawg on so much of my actual high school experience and brgg that to the character, " he Carlos, whose sexualy is not an issue for his classmat around him, Rodriguez do not have the "dramatic story beg shoved to lockers" that one might associate wh stori about gay teens -- Glee clud. However, his fears were assuaged by Tim Ferle, the gay creator and shownner of High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri, who helped create a role that was "anic" and "te to life. The origal High School Mil movi, directed by gay man Kenny Ortega (bizarrely!
Even as a teenager watchg High School Mil, was obv to me that Ryan Evans was gay. But now, a later, Disney+'s High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri is givg the LGBTQ+ muny the reprentatn the origals never one, there are at least two gay characters Carlos, a choreographer, and Seb, a teen boy who dns to play the tradnally female role of Sharpay East High School's productn of High School Mil.
Though the movi never addrsed Ryan's sexualy, Lus Grabeel, who played him, seemgly nfirmed the character was gay a 2016 terview wh BuzzFeed. "After readg the script, the first thg I said to [director Kenny Ortega] was, 'OK, Kenny, Ryan's gay, right?