Ey Valente, Er Christe Elise, Is Back '90210'—and She's Gay

Contents:

• EXCLIVE: WHO'S GAY ON 90210?
• '90210' EXCLIVE: THE REAL STORY BEHD TEDDY'S BIG GAY AWAKENG
• EY VALENTE, ER CHRISTE ELISE, IS BACK 90210—AND SHE'S GAY
• DARREN STAR ON THE STGGL OF SHOWG GAY CHARACTERS ‘90210,’ ‘MELROSE PLACE’

EXCLIVE: WHO'S GAY ON 90210?

Will Christa be a gay-posive role mol — or is a bisexual high school cheerlear jt another male fantasy? 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. 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.

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

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.

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

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. 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. Gayle Abrams...