Ryan is gay

One of the most iconic High School Musical characters is making a major return for season 4 of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, and from what we've seen in a brand new teaser, the show is making a major revelation fans have been eagerly awaiting.

This means so much to me that you are here."

"I love you," the mystery man says before they share a quick smooch.

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Actor Lucas Grabeel, who played Ryan Evans in the "High School Musical" movies "cried" when he found out the long beloved character would finally come out as gay on "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series," the series' showrunner told TV Line. 

"Lucas, like, cried on the phone and said, 'This would mean so much to people who grew up with this movie,'" Tim Federle, the showrunner of "HSMTMTS," told TV Line.

Federle added that he recalled Grabeel saying, "'It's what they were always kind of missing from this character,'" during their phone call. 

The fourth and final season of "HSMTMTS," which takes place at the famed East High, unites the current-day Wildcats with high school legends from generations past. 

The season starts with a scene showing some of the original "High School Musical" characters filming "High School Musical 4" — a reunion film — at East High. 

It's in that clip that viewers see Evans kisses his partner, who is played by Scott Hoying from Pentatonix. 

In 2020, "High School Musical" director Kenny Ortega said that Evans would have come out as gay in college, but as the movies stopped with high school graduation, fans did not see that happen. 

"It was less about coming out and just more about letting his true colors come forward," Insider reported Ortega said at the time.

"This means so much to me that you're here," Ryan says to the mysterious man backstage, played by none other than Pentatonix's Scott Hoying.

"High School Musical" character Ryan Evans is officially gay – and still fabulous.

Lucas Grabeel reprises his role as Ryan, one half of the Evans twins alongside Ashley Tisdale's Sharpay in the original Disney movie franchise, in the fourth and final season of TV spinoff "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series."

The East High alum shares a same-sex kiss in a sneak peek for the Disney+ show on Tuesday, confirming 15 years of speculation that Ryan is queer.

The clip shows Ryan stepping off stage to thank a man for coming to his show.

"So, I just took it upon myself to make choices that I felt that those who were watching would grab."

The director, who is gay, said he preferred to make Ryan queer-coded out of the worry that Disney would not approve of him being out.

"(Viewers) would see it, they would feel it, they would know it and they would identify with it.

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