We reported a few weeks back that gay indie film Quinceañera (co-directed by out gay filmmakers Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer) is getting the pilot treatment for ABC Family -- kind of an interesting choice for a "family" net owned by Disney.

Well, it looks like the film is being considerably de-gayed (for better or for worse) for its potential television incarnation: not only are the rather predatory older gay men who are the landlords of the leads in the film not a part of the story (they've apparently been replaced by straight hipsters), but now it looks like troubled gay teen Carlos (played by Jesse Garcia) is also not going to make the jump to the small screen.

As Glatzer put it in a recent interview with Out in Hollywood's Greg Hernandez:

"It won't be the same name but there will be a gay character ... One of the things about Carlos in Quniceanera is that he was a real loner and what we have now is a kind of pack of guys and one of those guys will turn out to be gay but we're not gonna tell you which one! We want it to evolve over the development of the series ... we don't want it to all be in the pilot. We want to keep some mystery about that character."

There's something to be said for letting a character evolve, sure. But the recent Heroes debacle has also shown that "keeping some mystery" can come back to bite you -- particularly when it gives the network or the actor the opportunity to "de-gay" the character in question. We'll be keeping an eye on this one.

The delightful John Polly over at Logo's NewNowNext scored quite a scoop at this past Monday's GLAAD Awards ceremony: it seems that the folks behind award-winning gay flick Quinceañera are bringing their multiculti coming-of-age story to the small screen, courtesy of ABC Family.

Here's a snippet from Polly's chat with Wash Westmoreland, who co-directed the film with partner Richard Glatzer:

Westmoreland said that he and Glatzer are working with ABC Family to turn the movie -- about a Latino family living in L.A.'s Echo Park neighborhood -- into a series for the generally wholesome channel. "They're being great," explained Westmoreland, "in fact they're encouraging us to be edgy and true to our story." So, yes, it sounds like you can expect to see the young gay Latino male character of Carlos (played by Jesse Garcia) looking for man-on-man love (or some version of it) on the TV show.

Pretty progressive stuff for a family channel, right? For more (including what's happening with the predatory gay couple from the film), head on over to the full story.