The fourth and final season of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is nearly here in the 2023 TV premiere schedule, and the Disney+ show is delivering some serious nostalgia in the final batch of episodes. It was announced nearly a year ago that Season 4 would bring in former High School Musical stars Corbin Bleu (Chad), Monique Coleman (Taylor), Lucas Grabeel (Ryan), Bart Johnson (Coach Bolton), Alyson Reed (Ms. Darbus) and Kaycee Stroh (Martha) for a final bow, and a new sneak peek dropped a reveal that has been nearly twenty years coming: Grabeel's character is gay. And the internet is all in on the official news!
Speculation about Ryan Evans' sexuality has been happening going all the way back to 2006, with the first TV movie when there was no way of guessing that there would one day be a show like High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. The speculation ramped up with High School Musical 2 in 2007 (particularly after the "I Don't Dance" number with Chad that left many theorizing that Ryan had a crush on Chad) and continued with HSM 3 despite that movie attempting to set up a romance between Ryan and Kelsi.
