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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
• ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ DIRECTOR KENNY ORTEGA CONFIRMS LUS GRABEEL’S CHARACTER RYAN EVANS IS GAY
• THANKS TO WHNEY HOTON, ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ HAS S FIRST GAY ROMANCE
• THE DIRECTOR OF "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" EXPLAED WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY AND SAID HE WOULD "COME OUT IN COLLEGE"
• HIGH SCHOOL MIL THEORY SUGGTS TWO CHARACTERS WERE GAY AND A RELATNSHIP
• HIGH SCHOOL MIL (FALLY!) HAS AN OUT GAY TEEN

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

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.

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

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.

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. 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.

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

When the mil film me out 2006, Ortega revealed that he wasn’t sure an openly gay character would’ve been 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.

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

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. 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.

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

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.

HIGH SCHOOL MIL THEORY SUGGTS TWO CHARACTERS WERE GAY AND A RELATNSHIP

n you believe hsm they tried to pass off kelsi, a leral lbian, as a heterosexual who was datg ryan, a leral gay. 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. 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 (FALLY!) HAS AN OUT GAY TEEN

However, fans now thk there was a homoerotic subtext that many viewers were missg all along. Another fan of the films tweeted: "Chad and Ryan are gay" I say to the mic.

" Elsewhere, another noted: "the high school mil 2 scene of I don’t dance is major gay vib between Ryan and chad. #hsm2 #DisneyPl " A different fan was nvced of Chad and Ryan's love story the third film: "m u s i c a l l y stick to the stat quo outdo i don't dance but 's all about the sweet gay character velopment on both ryan and chad's sis.

They nclud: "ryan and sharpay were both gay. Then last Friday, I saw a post about the song "I Don't Dance" om HSM2 and how was apparently really gay. So apparently "I Don't Dance" wh Ryan and Chad is one big metaphor for homo/bisexualy, which I never ught as a kid.