“High School Musical” director Kenny Ortega has finally confirmed that Ryan (portrayed by Lucas Grabeel) is gay. Ortega, who himself is gay, confirmed the news while speaking with Variety about the queer aesthetic that runs through his films.
RELATED: Billy Porter ‘Excited’ To Be First Gay Man On Essence Cover “I put a lot of who I am into my work. I mean, really all the way back from the earliest work that I’ve done, even as a choreographer in film and television,” he said. “I think, yeah, that it’s just there and whether it’s screaming at you, or whether it’s just sort of quietly there, it’s there.” “The character of Ryan in ‘High School Musical’, Sharpay’s twin brother, we decided he’d probably going to come out in college,” the
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