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Disney is featuring its first-ever LGBTQ love song on Friday's episode of "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series," EW reported. What are the details?The episode, which streams on Disney+, depicts Carlos (Frankie Rodriguez) singing a love song titled, "In a Heartbeat," to his boyfriend Seb (Joe Serafini), the outlet said. EW said the "sweet ballad" is performed "when Carlos learns Seb feels insecure in their relationship." What's more, the actors are a real-life couple, the outlet noted — and Rodriguez said he was excited to be part of Disney history. "To be the first, it's kind of crazy!" Rodriguez...

By the standards of the internet, the photograph is relatively tame: an 18-year-old girl, standing in a bedroom in front of deep red curtains, pulling back her hair and smiling for the camera. She’s stark naked, of course. But this is a nude picture like no other. It could, in fact, represent one of the most expensive PR disasters in recent media history.

News reports say early Nielsens show that Friday's premiere of The Disney Channel's made for TV High School Musical 2 was the most-watched basic cable television program of all time. With 17.2 million viewers, it was also the most-watched basic cable movie of all time, the highest-rated television program ever for children age 6 to 11 and the second-highest-rated television program of all time (behind only the 2004 Super Bowl) for viewers age 9 to 14. It also was the most-viewed Friday television telecast, cable or broadcast, in the past five years. Now the $7 million musical sequel will be...