Troy came out 9️⃣ times in Role Model
🏒🍏🏳️🌈🍎 NINE!
To… Ilya: I’m gay
Harris: I’m gay
Ryan: You’re gay? Yes
Wiebe: Tell mgmt
his mom: I’m gay
Centaurs: I’m gay
his dad: I’m gay
IG post: This is me
Pride Night: “he stepped on the ice for the first time as an openly gay man”
“I’ve always felt so lucky to have a son as wonderful as Shane that I never expected to be blessed with a second one”
Dave Hollander to Ilya, the day of Ilya & Shane wedding
Rachel Reid on why she chose ‘Diamonds’ by Rihanna as the song for Shane and Ilya’s first dance:
“You can’t pick something obscure. So I was thinking, ‘Alright, what’s realistically a song that was popular at that time?’ Because it’s 2021… [what’s a song] that the readers would know, that these hockey players would know, that Harris would have on his phone ready to go, and that the lyrics kind of make some sense. It was a song I was listening to a lot while writing that book, so it was a little treat for me.”
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Spoiler warning: Rachel Reid on Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov navigating life as an out and married couple in ‘Unrivaled’
“Unrivaled is very much about [the realities of a world reacting to their relationship]. This is really where the world's gonna judge them, right? 'Cause now they're on the same team, it's in people's faces, they have to decide how they feel about this. And they're gonna be loud about it. I think it's two sides. There's gonna be people that are extremely excited and supportive of it — some of it in maybe a parasocial way, which isn't at all based on reality. And there will also be the other side: just blatantly homophobic and bigoted and terrible.
And then on top of that, we have these two still relatively young men who are trying to be in this now-marriage together when they've always had this secret relationship. Now they're living together, working together, traveling together, openly a couple, openly married to each other. Everybody knows, and they also have to be role models in that way. It's all new, all at once. It's a lot. So I can definitely relate to life changing very quickly. That's definitely helping influence the story a little bit, but, yeah, that's mostly what it is. Even though they had their happy ending, it's a complicated happy ending, and there's still a lot of things that they're gonna have to deal with. That's why I decided to write the book — because I felt like there's still more story to tell.”
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