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Contents:

• THANKS TO WHNEY HOTON, ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ HAS S FIRST GAY ROMANCE
• GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI FALLY GET A LOVE SONG OF THEIR OWN
• 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL': WHAT LUS GRABEEL SAID ABOUT RYAN EVANS BEG GAY
• KENNY ORTEGA SAYS RYAN OM HIGH SCHOOL MIL WAS ‘PROBABLY’ GAY
• 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
• THE DIRECTOR OF "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" EXPLAED WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY AND SAID HE WOULD "COME OUT IN COLLEGE"

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 FALLY GET A LOVE SONG OF THEIR OWN

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

'HIGH SCHOOL MIL': WHAT LUS GRABEEL SAID ABOUT RYAN EVANS BEG GAY

High School Mil had a late addn to Pri Month this year when out director Kenny Ortega revealed an terview that the character of Ryan Evans (played by Lus Grabeel) was gay the trilogy of Disney movi. 'High School Mil' director Kenny Ortega has nfirmed that Ryan Evans (left) was d as gay.

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KENNY ORTEGA SAYS RYAN OM HIGH SCHOOL MIL WAS ‘PROBABLY’ GAY

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” 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.

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.

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

RELATED | Where Are All the Gays on Disney+? "There's so many amazgly talented gay actors that uld do as well, so if 'High School Mil' was ma today, I don't know if I would play Ryan, " Grabeel said.

" The actor's statement me after "High School Mil" director Kenny Ortega nfirmed that the character Ryan was gay the movi, even though his sexualy was never explicly mentned. "There's so many amazgly talented gay actors that uld do as well, so if 'High School Mil' was ma today, I don't know if I would play Ryan, " Grabeel told TMZ via vio chat. Acrdg to Grabeel, Ortega (himself a gay man), said Ryan wasn't straight — but that Disney might not be ready for an openly gay character.

THE ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ SERI HAD A GAY LOVE SONG

Ryan's gay, right?

" Read more:'High School Mil' director Kenny Ortega nfirms Sharpay's brother Ryan is gay and was 'probably gog to e out llege'THEN AND NOW: The st of the 'High School Mil' movi 14 years later17 thgs you didn't know about the 'High School Mil' movi. "Now, Ryan is not officially gay any of the [HSM] movi, but I thk anyone that watch him n intify wh who he was high school: someone tryg to figure out, " he told Billboard 2018.

THE DIRECTOR OF "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" EXPLAED WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY AND SAID HE WOULD "COME OUT IN COLLEGE"

When High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri first buted 2019, we troduced you to the show’s gay character Carlos. Rodriguez, Carlos is an openly gay teenager and “Broadway nerd” who’s taken on the role of choreographer for his school’s mil. That clus the show’s gay rep.