Victor joins the basketball team and gets a job at a coffee shop to pay for the fees. That is, until Black student Mia Brooks (Rachel Hilson), the school’s most popular girl, falls in love with him. Victor immediately reaches out to Simon via social media to lash out at Simon’s “perfect life.” Portrayed by Michael Cimino, Victor’s working-class, conservative Catholic family moves to Atlanta from Texas. The series follows Victor Salazar, a Latino high school student struggling with his sexual identity and life in school. It takes the universe of “Love, Simon” into a new level, adding class, race and ethnicity in the mix as another teen walks through the same love conflicts.
“Love Victor,’’ a spinoff series, premiered Friday on Hulu. But like most LGBTQ projects, it was told from the experiences of a white gay male. – The 2018 film, “Love, Simon,” brought a fresh perspective to the first love, coming-of-age genre through the eyes of a gay teen.Įxploring love’s innocence, isolation and fear of rejection, the film showed that a story about an LGBTQ character could transcend and be included in the narrative of American life.
