Gay 90210 Character Revealed

Contents:

• EY VALENTE, ER CHRISTE ELISE, IS BACK 90210—AND SHE'S GAY
• DARREN STAR ON THE STGGL OF SHOWG GAY CHARACTERS ‘90210,’ ‘MELROSE PLACE’
• '90210' GAY CHARACTER REVEALED
• '90210' EXCLIVE: THE REAL STORY BEHD TEDDY'S BIG GAY AWAKENG
• TREVOR DONOVAN’S GAY ROLE ‘90210’ IRONILLY IMPROVED HIS DATG LIFE WH WOMEN
• EXCLIVE: WHO'S GAY ON 90210?
• GAYCHARACTER REVEALED?
• TREVOR DONOVAN: PLAYG GAY CHARACTER ON '90210' GETS ME GIRLS

EY VALENTE, ER CHRISTE ELISE, IS BACK 90210—AND SHE'S GAY

While Beverly Hills, 90210 had a few special episos wh gay characters, this versn featur Gabrielle Carteris explorg her attractn to women.

DARREN STAR ON THE STGGL OF SHOWG GAY CHARACTERS ‘90210,’ ‘MELROSE PLACE’

People who didn't feel spoken for by the ma st of that show, whether they were punk rock kids, or gay kids, or a different relign or fancial level, or race, jt different, other than, felt reprented by her on that show.

Currently, there is a big bate about what chicken sandwich to eat other than homophobic Chick-fil-A. How important was to tegrate gay characters to your storytellg?

'90210' GAY CHARACTER REVEALED

I would thk, you live the world of realy, and beg gay felt meang.

'90210' EXCLIVE: THE REAL STORY BEHD TEDDY'S BIG GAY AWAKENG

” A gay character n’t hold hands wh his boyiend? Havg a gay character as a regular who wasn’t ashamed of his sexualy.

All of our shows were not about the character beg gay. We have gay relatnships, straight relatnships. The character of Teddy Montgomery (Trevor Donovan) will reportedly adm that he is gay the upg third season of was prevly reported that eher Liam (Matt Lanter), Navid (Michael Steger) or Teddy would e out the new season of the CW drama.

Zap2It has now nfirmed that Donovan's character will reveal his te sexualy a forthg the send season fale, viewers saw Teddy rned wh his girliend Silver (Jsi Stroup) Kyle Riabko was recently st as the character's new love tert, and rehearsals between the two actors are currently CW was praised last month for s reprentatn of gay people, receivg the hight ever ratg for a broadst work an annual survey by the Gay And Lbian Alliance Agast Discrimatn (GLAAD). In the followg exclive terview, exec producer Rebec Sclair reveals when she realized Teddy preferred guys over gals, previews his first same-sex romance, and rells Donovan’s ial reactn upon learng that he’d be playg gay.

TREVOR DONOVAN’S GAY ROLE ‘90210’ IRONILLY IMPROVED HIS DATG LIFE WH WOMEN

In a lot of ways I thk that’s more tertg than Teddy is a gay athlete, a gay famo guy’s son and a blon and hunky gay gentleman. Did you know Teddy would be gay when he was first troduced?

And I gus our ultimate goal would be to tell a whole range of stori that pict different facets of the issue of gayns—or non-straightns, you might say.

Though, thankfully, we live an age where lots of teens are fortable wh their sexual orientatn and are able to e out when they’re high school or even before, we didn’t want to ignore the realy that for lots of kids the road to self-acceptance for a gay teenager isn’t easy.

EXCLIVE: WHO'S GAY ON 90210?

And he’s worked hard to reprs whatever homosexual feelgs he’s had. He plays Ian, a self-nfint, funny guy who is very much out and fortable wh his gayns.

When did you rm Trevor that his character was gog to be gay? I thk he regnized that was a good opportuny as an actor and he was exced by the ia of tellg the story of a character’s journey that would mean a lot to gay teenagers and other teenagers who are learng to be hont about who they are and what they feel.

Donovan's character the seri me out as gay as the seri progrsed, which advertently helped him garner female attentn and d his datg Donovan's Gay Character Helped His Datg LifeDonovan's character, Teddy, was ially shown as a lady charmer  the drama seri. Moreover, he was exced to take up a gay role.

GAYCHARACTER REVEALED?

And puts a lot of substance to a show that tends to be a ltle more addn to that, he felt that his character was once disliked by fans when he was portrayed as a womanizer, but after knowg Teddy's sexual stggle, viewers empathized wh talented actor revealed he got unexpected female attentn after his character me out as gay  90210.

They kd of assume I’m (gay real life) and try to change me back. I uldn't be happier, " the actor told Life & Style about beg a role mol for teens who may be nfed about their sce Donovan portrayed the gay character and showed passn towards the LGBTQ+ muny, his fans have wonred if he is gay real the Hallmark star hasn't yet mented on that topic. Will Christa be a gay-posive role mol — or is a bisexual high school cheerlear jt another male fantasy?

After stgglg wh his sexualy for a long time, he fally was able to adm to himself that he was gay and me out to his iends. In episo 9, Teddy is slowly startg to accept his sexualy and viss a gay bar alone but he los his wallet and is forced to ask Ian for help. This brgs Teddy and Ian slightly closer as iends, a lot bee Ian is the only one Teddy n nfi about his homosexualy.

TREVOR DONOVAN: PLAYG GAY CHARACTER ON '90210' GETS ME GIRLS

But at Adrianna's party, Teddy fally adms to Ian he is gay but jt isn't that ready to e out to everyone yet but one day he will be but Ian needs to give him some time. Liam Court, Dixon and Navid take Teddy to a gay bar as a sign of support.

Teddy nfs to Tripp that he's actually gay and rponse Tripp kiss him, revealg that he is too. Teddy leav Beverly Hills for Barcelona, and leav a voicemail for his father revealg he is gay.

Shane l out Teddy's uncle as a homophobe, and tells him they n never be together if Teddy supports his uncle the mpaign. It will be the first major gay character on the reboot of the popular 90's primetime soap. Producers prevly nfirmed the gay character would be Navid (Michael Steger, right), Liam (Matt Lanter, center) or Teddy.