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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
• KENNY ORTEGA SAYS RYAN OM HIGH SCHOOL MIL WAS ‘PROBABLY’ GAY
• ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ DIRECTOR KENNY ORTEGA CONFIRMS LUS GRABEEL’S CHARACTER RYAN EVANS IS GAY
• THE DIRECTOR OF "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" EXPLAED WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY AND SAID HE WOULD "COME OUT IN COLLEGE"
• THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
• THE ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ SERI HAD A GAY LOVE SONG
• GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI HOPE TO BE THE REPRENTATN THEY NEVER HAD
• 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL': WHAT LUS GRABEEL SAID ABOUT RYAN EVANS BEG GAY
• THE HIGH SCHOOL MIL FRANCHISE JT GOT ITS FIRST-EVER GAY COUPLE
• HIGH SCHOOL MIL (FALLY!) HAS AN OUT GAY TEEN

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. ”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. 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. ” When asked if would have been possible to wre Ryan as openly gay a Bh admistratn–era Disney Channel movie, Ortega answered:.

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

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.

The HSM director, who is openly gay himself, nfirmed that Lus Grabeel’s character, Ryan Evans, was as well — even if wasn’t discsed the movi.

When the mil film me out 2006, Ortega revealed that he wasn’t sure an openly gay character would’ve been possible. While havg an openly gay uple was already a tone for Disney, the pair would soon be makg even more history. 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.

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

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.

‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ DIRECTOR KENNY ORTEGA CONFIRMS LUS GRABEEL’S CHARACTER RYAN EVANS IS GAY

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.

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

Ryan om High School Mil has officially been nfirmed as gay and hontly we been knew.

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". 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.

THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME

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.

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

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.

Not only is he openly gay himself, but he and Joe Serafi started datg after meetg on the show two years ago.

This new wave seems to have started when a character om the Disney Channel show Andi Mack me out as 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.

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

” 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.

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. Related: Disney’s new “High School Mil” seri will feature a flamboyantly gay character.

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

High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri won the GLAAD Media Award 2020 for Outstandg Kids & Fay Programmg, part for s reprentatn of a gay lato stunt Carlos, who is played by out actor Frankie A.

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.

THE HIGH SCHOOL MIL FRANCHISE JT GOT ITS FIRST-EVER GAY COUPLE

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.

HIGH SCHOOL MIL (FALLY!) HAS AN OUT GAY TEEN

He relled watchg the gay teen character of Jt Suarez (Mark Inlito) on ABC's Ugly Betty, which was "was md-blowg, " he said. "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! Though many fans assumed that Ryan was gay, the character never directly acknowledged his sexualy.

“People have always asked me if Ryan was gay, ” Grabeel says.