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• GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI FALLY GET A LOVE SONG OF THEIR OWN
• GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI HOPE TO BE THE REPRENTATN THEY NEVER HAD
• FRANKIE RODRIGUEZ & JOE SERAFI ON GAYG DISNEY ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL: THE MIL: THE SERI’
• THANKS TO WHNEY HOTON, ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ HAS S FIRST GAY ROMANCE
• ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ STAR AND HIS CHARACTER ARE BOTH GAY. IT’S NO BIG AL — EXCEPT WHEN TO REPRENTATN.
• JOE SERAFI IS MUCH MORE THAN ‘GAY SHARPAY’

GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI FALLY GET A LOVE SONG OF THEIR OWN

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Rodriguez plays gay high school stunt, choreographer, assistant director, and actor Carlos Disney+'s High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri.

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

Andi Mack's Joshua Rh played the first-ever Disney Channel character to say "I'm gay" on the work. "I suffered wh some level of my own ternalized homophobia even while playg the first openly gay character on Disney Channel.

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"Both actors also cred shownner Tim Ferle, a gay man, for creatg a show where this kd of thg n happen.

FRANKIE RODRIGUEZ & JOE SERAFI ON GAYG DISNEY ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL: THE MIL: THE SERI’

While havg an openly gay uple was already a tone for Disney, the pair would soon be makg even more history. 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. 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.

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

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. School is back ssn, and gay love is the air. For Rodriguez & Serafi, landg the rol of the most proment gay uple on Disney+ reprents jt another step two already trigug reers.

‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ STAR AND HIS CHARACTER ARE BOTH GAY. IT’S NO BIG AL — EXCEPT WHEN TO REPRENTATN.

We snagged time wh Rodriguez & Serafi to chat about the show, the prsur of playg a gay uple for Disney and what to expect om the new season. That might be the first gay relatnship the history of Disney+. Related: Tim Ferle on revisg gay high school ‘High School Mil: The Mil – The Seri’.

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.

JOE SERAFI IS MUCH MORE THAN ‘GAY SHARPAY’

”It wasn’t until 2017’s “Andi Mack” that Disney Channel troduced s first gay ma character middle schooler Cys Goodman. He’s a teenager who, Season 1, experienc first, oh yeah, he’s gay. Rodriguez is the first openly gay actor “High School Mil, ” and Carlos — one of 10 first-season regular characters — is the first openly gay regular the anchise.

So while the show is not about gay kids, the school is portrayed as a place where a gay kid is safe and accepted.

“The arts saved my life when I was a kid, ” said Ferle, who also is openly gay. So Carlos is only the send gay regular a Disney seri; the first was Cys (Joshua Rh) “Andi Mack” — another ma--Utah unlike Cys, Carlos is out om the get-go.