Jewish Actor Joshua Rh Plays Disney Channel’s First Gay, Jewish Teen

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• JEWISH ACTOR JOSHUA RH PLAYS DISNEY CHANNEL’S FIRST GAY, JEWISH TEEN
• DISNEY CHANNEL STAR JOSHUA RH SAYS HE'S 'REALLY PROUD' TO PLAY A GAY CHARACTER ON 'ANDI MACK'
• SHOP SUAL WGIRL-SPIRED OUTFS FOR FALLOPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHCULTURE'ANDI MACK' MAK HISTORY WH FIRST DISNEY CHANNEL CHARACTER TO SAY 'I'M GAY'4:56'ANDI MACK' ST DISH ON NEW SEASON: 'IT MAK DIVERSY NORMAL'BYTONY MORRISONFEBARY 11, 2019, 5:06 PM•5 M READ"I'M GAY."JOSHUA RH, WHO PLAYS THE ROLE OF CYS THE H DISNEY CHANNEL SERI, "ANDI MACK," JT BEME THE FIRST DISNEY CHANNEL CHARACTER TO EVER SAY THOSE TWO WORDS. HIS PERFORMANCE AS CYS ALSO MARKS THE FIRST PORTRAYAL OF AN OPENLY GAY CHARACTER ON DISNEY CHANNEL.“TAKG ON THE ROLE OF CYS HAS BEEN ONE OF THE MOST FUN THGS I'VE EVER DONE MY LIFE," RH TOLD "GMA." "BEG JEWISH, BEG 14, GOG TO MIDDLE SCHOOL, HAVG THIS SMALL, CLOSE-KN GROUP OF IENDS, AND BEG GAY ARE ALL JT PARTS OF HIS PERSONALY," HE AFFIRMED.THE REACTN TO HIS CHARACTER G OUT?"OVERWHELMGLY POSIVE," HE SAID, ADDG THAT "OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS I'VE REALLY GOTTEN TO SEE THE MYRIAD OF WAYS THAT BOTH THIS NEW G-OUT SCENE FOR CYS, AND THIS JEWISH REPRENTATN OF HIS FAY, HAS AFFECTED THE FANS."ASHER ANGEL, PEYTON ELIZABETH LEE, JOSHUA RH AND SOFIA WYLIE STAR THE DISNEY CHANNEL'S, "ANDI MACK."MCH HAASETH/DISNEY CHANNELIN THE MOVG SCENE THAT AIRED LAST WEEK, CYS IS JOED BY HIS IENDS AT HIS GRANDMOTHER'S SHIVA, THE FIRST WEEK OF MOURNG OBSERVED BY THOSE OF THE JEWISH FAH FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS PASSED AWAY. CYS FDS 'S THE RIGHT TIME FOR HIM TO E OUT TO HIS BT GUY IEND, JONAH, PLAYED BY ACTOR ASHER ANGEL.CHECK OUT THE PIECE OF DISNEY CHANNEL HISTORY FOR YOURSELF:CYS PREVLY ME OUT TO HIS IENDS ANDI AND BUFFY TWO SEPARATE PAST EPISOS OF THE SHOW, BUT HAS NEVER ACTUALLY SAID THE WORDS, "I'M GAY" UNTIL NOW.HERE'S ONE OF THOSE SCEN:"CYS HAS TGHT ME A LOT ABOUT BEG FORTABLE WH MYSELF NO MATTER WHAT OTHERS THK," RH TOLD "GMA." "I WAS BULLIED A LOT AT CYS’ AGE," HE SAID, "SO 'S SPIRG TO SEE HOW CYS KNOWS HE DON’T HAVE ALL FIGURED OUT YET, BUT HE ISN’T AAID TO ASK THE HARD QUTNS ABOUT WHO HE MIGHT BE AND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR HIM."IN A TWEET, RH SAID "EVERY DAY IS A BLSG" TO BE PART OF THE SHOW "ANDI MACK." CALLG THE LATT VELOPMENT WH HIS CHARACTER CYS, "A TONE."JONATHAN HURWZ, WHO WROTE THIS EPISO OF "ANDI MACK," ENTLED "ONE A MYAN," SHARED A BLOG POST PUBLISHED BY GLAAD THAT HE WAS DRIVEN OM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE TO WRE THIS EPISO AND DO RIGHT "AS SOMEONE WHO’S JEWISH, HAS ALT WH LONG-TERM ANXIETY, AND HAS E OUT TO HIS IENDS AND FAY.""IN THE WRER’S ROOM, I SHARED A PERSONAL STORY ABOUT HOW NERVO I WAS TO E OUT TO A LLEGE IEND BACK 2010. WHILE GRABBG BURGERS ONE AFTERNOON, HE ASKED ME TO PASS THE KETCHUP, SO I HAND HIM THE BOTTLE WHILE MUMBLG THE WORDS, 'I’M GAY.,'" HURWZ WROTE. "HE LOOKED UP AT ME, SAID 'COOL,' THEN PROCEED TO PUT KETCHUP ON HIS BURGER AS IF I HADN’T JT REVEALED MY MOST PERSONAL, EPT TTH. I REMEMBER THKG: THAT’S ?! AFTER A TEN-YEAR JOURNEY TO E OUT TO MYSELF, I FALLY E OUT TO MY IEND AND ALL I GET IS A 'COOL?!' BUT WHAT I ULTIMATELY REALIZED WAS THAT MY IENDS AND FAY LOVED ME UNNDNALLY BEFORE I’D EVEN LEARNED TO TLY LOVE MYSELF."HURWZ WROTE THAT HE ED HIS EXPERIENCE TO CRAFT CYS' G OUT STORYLE TO JONAH."IN SPE OF CYS' NERV ABOUT TELLG BUFFY, ANDI, AND NOW JONAH, HE NTUALLY UNRTIMAT HOW MUCH PEOPLE ACCEPT HIM FOR WHO HE IS," HE WROTE. "NO MATTER HOW 'WEIRD' OR 'DIFFERENT' HE FEELS (HIS WORDS OM SEASON ONE), HIS IENDS WILL ALWAYS BE RIGHT BY HIS SI, LOVG AND SUPPORTG HIM."SOFIA WYLIE, PEYTON ELIZABETH LEE, JOSHUA RH AND ASHER ANGEL STAR THE DISNEY CHANNEL'S, "ANDI MACK."FRED HAY/DISNEY CHANNELFOR MANY, THE PROCS OF G OUT IS AS TERRIFYG AS IS EXHILARATG. THAT PROCS IS UNIQUE AND DIFFERENT FOR EVERYONE, AND IS SOMETIM MET BY REJECTN AND EVEN VLENCE. ACRDG TO BROCK DUMVILLE, M.P.H. AND SENR CRISIS SERVIC MANAGER FOR THE TREVOR PROJECT, "THE BT WAY TO SUPPORT YOUR IEND WOULD BE TO CELEBRATE THEM FOR MAKG CHOIC THAT FEEL HEALTHY FOR THEM, CLUDG IF THAT IS CHOOSG NOT TO E OUT."THE TREVOR PROJECT IS A NATNAL ANIZATN PROVIDG CRISIS TERVENTN FOR LGBTQ+ YOUTH UNR 25. VIS THE TREVOR PROJECT'S "COMG OUT AS YOU" ROURCE PAGE FOR MORE."ANDI MACK" AIRS FRIDAY NIGHTS AT 8/7C ON THE DISNEY CHANNEL.DISNEY IS THE PARENT PANY OF ABC NEWS AND "GOOD MORNG AMERI."UP NEXT CULTURE—BILLIE JEAN KG REFLECTS ON GENR EQUALY 50 YEARS AFTER 'BATTLE OF THE SEX' AUGT 29, 2023'BACHELORETTE' ALUM JOSH SEER 'ALIVE AND WELL' AFTER ALLEGED SOCIAL MEDIA ATH HOAXAUGT 29, 2023JOHN LEGEND SHAR ADORABLE VIO WH 'MI-ME' SON MILAUGT 29, 2023JSI ALBA SHAR PHOTO OF HER 2 DGHTERS: 'MY BABY GIRLS'AUGT 29, 2023UP NEXT CULTURE—BILLIE JEAN KG REFLECTS ON GENR EQUALY 50 YEARS AFTER 'BATTLE OF THE SEX' AUGT 29, 2023'BACHELORETTE' ALUM JOSH SEER 'ALIVE AND WELL' AFTER ALLEGED SOCIAL MEDIA ATH HOAXAUGT 29, 2023JOHN LEGEND SHAR ADORABLE VIO WH 'MI-ME' SON MILAUGT 29, 2023JSI ALBA SHAR PHOTO OF HER 2 DGHTERS: 'MY BABY GIRLS'AUGT 29, 2023
• DISNEY CHANNEL STAR JOSHUA RH SAYS HE'S 'REALLY PROUD' TO PLAY A GAY CHARACTER ON 'ANDI MACK'

JEWISH ACTOR JOSHUA RH PLAYS DISNEY CHANNEL’S FIRST GAY, JEWISH TEEN

Joshua Rh portrayed Disney Channel’s first gay teen character on “Andi Mack” and now he is sharg about his own sexualy. “I suffered wh some level of my own ternalized homophobia even while playg the first openly gay character on Disney Channel. Joshua Rh plays the gay character of Cys Goodman on the Disney Channel seri Andi Mack (Picture: Teen Vogue).

DISNEY CHANNEL STAR JOSHUA RH SAYS HE'S 'REALLY PROUD' TO PLAY A GAY CHARACTER ON 'ANDI MACK'

Meanwhile, 2017, he was st as the ma gay character as Cys Goodman on the Disney Channel fay edy seri Andi Mack. Joshua earned massive attentn for his gay role the Andi Mack seri. Related: Know About Adam Lambert; Age, Gay, Datg, Queen, Songs, Net Worth.

Joshua beme The First Actor Disney Channel History to Play an Openly Gay Character for playg Cys earned a Young Artist Award nomatn as Bt Supportg Young Actor Age Ten and Unr a Feature Film for his work on Parental was jt ten months old when he got featured a lol televisn special, as well as several ads and intifi “as a Democrat and is the supporter of Bernie Sanrs, the Democratic ndidate for the US Printial electn 2020. Joshua Rh, who ma wav as Disney Channel's first openly gay character on the work's edy-drama "Andi Mack, " is speakg up about his own sexualy. "Rh referenced his on-screen character, Cys, who me out to his iends as gay a Febary 2019 episo of the show: "How ironic, isn't , that me, playg that character, never had mtered up that urage?

"The actor admted that he "suffered wh some level of my own ternalized homophobia even while playg the first openly gay character on Disney Channel, " addg, "I stuffed the existential crisis of talkg about my sexual orientatn to a box my md for years. The kid-iendly Disney Channel seri “Andi Mack” ma history last October, when the character Cys Goodman revealed that he’s gay.

SHOP SUAL WGIRL-SPIRED OUTFS FOR FALLOPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHCULTURE'ANDI MACK' MAK HISTORY WH FIRST DISNEY CHANNEL CHARACTER TO SAY 'I'M GAY'4:56'ANDI MACK' ST DISH ON NEW SEASON: 'IT MAK DIVERSY NORMAL'BYTONY MORRISONFEBARY 11, 2019, 5:06 PM•5 M READ"I'M GAY."JOSHUA RH, WHO PLAYS THE ROLE OF CYS THE H DISNEY CHANNEL SERI, "ANDI MACK," JT BEME THE FIRST DISNEY CHANNEL CHARACTER TO EVER SAY THOSE TWO WORDS. HIS PERFORMANCE AS CYS ALSO MARKS THE FIRST PORTRAYAL OF AN OPENLY GAY CHARACTER ON DISNEY CHANNEL.“TAKG ON THE ROLE OF CYS HAS BEEN ONE OF THE MOST FUN THGS I'VE EVER DONE MY LIFE," RH TOLD "GMA." "BEG JEWISH, BEG 14, GOG TO MIDDLE SCHOOL, HAVG THIS SMALL, CLOSE-KN GROUP OF IENDS, AND BEG GAY ARE ALL JT PARTS OF HIS PERSONALY," HE AFFIRMED.THE REACTN TO HIS CHARACTER G OUT?"OVERWHELMGLY POSIVE," HE SAID, ADDG THAT "OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS I'VE REALLY GOTTEN TO SEE THE MYRIAD OF WAYS THAT BOTH THIS NEW G-OUT SCENE FOR CYS, AND THIS JEWISH REPRENTATN OF HIS FAY, HAS AFFECTED THE FANS."ASHER ANGEL, PEYTON ELIZABETH LEE, JOSHUA RH AND SOFIA WYLIE STAR THE DISNEY CHANNEL'S, "ANDI MACK."MCH HAASETH/DISNEY CHANNELIN THE MOVG SCENE THAT AIRED LAST WEEK, CYS IS JOED BY HIS IENDS AT HIS GRANDMOTHER'S SHIVA, THE FIRST WEEK OF MOURNG OBSERVED BY THOSE OF THE JEWISH FAH FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS PASSED AWAY. CYS FDS 'S THE RIGHT TIME FOR HIM TO E OUT TO HIS BT GUY IEND, JONAH, PLAYED BY ACTOR ASHER ANGEL.CHECK OUT THE PIECE OF DISNEY CHANNEL HISTORY FOR YOURSELF:CYS PREVLY ME OUT TO HIS IENDS ANDI AND BUFFY TWO SEPARATE PAST EPISOS OF THE SHOW, BUT HAS NEVER ACTUALLY SAID THE WORDS, "I'M GAY" UNTIL NOW.HERE'S ONE OF THOSE SCEN:"CYS HAS TGHT ME A LOT ABOUT BEG FORTABLE WH MYSELF NO MATTER WHAT OTHERS THK," RH TOLD "GMA." "I WAS BULLIED A LOT AT CYS’ AGE," HE SAID, "SO 'S SPIRG TO SEE HOW CYS KNOWS HE DON’T HAVE ALL FIGURED OUT YET, BUT HE ISN’T AAID TO ASK THE HARD QUTNS ABOUT WHO HE MIGHT BE AND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR HIM."IN A TWEET, RH SAID "EVERY DAY IS A BLSG" TO BE PART OF THE SHOW "ANDI MACK." CALLG THE LATT VELOPMENT WH HIS CHARACTER CYS, "A TONE."JONATHAN HURWZ, WHO WROTE THIS EPISO OF "ANDI MACK," ENTLED "ONE A MYAN," SHARED A BLOG POST PUBLISHED BY GLAAD THAT HE WAS DRIVEN OM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE TO WRE THIS EPISO AND DO RIGHT "AS SOMEONE WHO’S JEWISH, HAS ALT WH LONG-TERM ANXIETY, AND HAS E OUT TO HIS IENDS AND FAY.""IN THE WRER’S ROOM, I SHARED A PERSONAL STORY ABOUT HOW NERVO I WAS TO E OUT TO A LLEGE IEND BACK 2010. WHILE GRABBG BURGERS ONE AFTERNOON, HE ASKED ME TO PASS THE KETCHUP, SO I HAND HIM THE BOTTLE WHILE MUMBLG THE WORDS, 'I’M GAY.,'" HURWZ WROTE. "HE LOOKED UP AT ME, SAID 'COOL,' THEN PROCEED TO PUT KETCHUP ON HIS BURGER AS IF I HADN’T JT REVEALED MY MOST PERSONAL, EPT TTH. I REMEMBER THKG: THAT’S ?! AFTER A TEN-YEAR JOURNEY TO E OUT TO MYSELF, I FALLY E OUT TO MY IEND AND ALL I GET IS A 'COOL?!' BUT WHAT I ULTIMATELY REALIZED WAS THAT MY IENDS AND FAY LOVED ME UNNDNALLY BEFORE I’D EVEN LEARNED TO TLY LOVE MYSELF."HURWZ WROTE THAT HE ED HIS EXPERIENCE TO CRAFT CYS' G OUT STORYLE TO JONAH."IN SPE OF CYS' NERV ABOUT TELLG BUFFY, ANDI, AND NOW JONAH, HE NTUALLY UNRTIMAT HOW MUCH PEOPLE ACCEPT HIM FOR WHO HE IS," HE WROTE. "NO MATTER HOW 'WEIRD' OR 'DIFFERENT' HE FEELS (HIS WORDS OM SEASON ONE), HIS IENDS WILL ALWAYS BE RIGHT BY HIS SI, LOVG AND SUPPORTG HIM."SOFIA WYLIE, PEYTON ELIZABETH LEE, JOSHUA RH AND ASHER ANGEL STAR THE DISNEY CHANNEL'S, "ANDI MACK."FRED HAY/DISNEY CHANNELFOR MANY, THE PROCS OF G OUT IS AS TERRIFYG AS IS EXHILARATG. THAT PROCS IS UNIQUE AND DIFFERENT FOR EVERYONE, AND IS SOMETIM MET BY REJECTN AND EVEN VLENCE. ACRDG TO BROCK DUMVILLE, M.P.H. AND SENR CRISIS SERVIC MANAGER FOR THE TREVOR PROJECT, "THE BT WAY TO SUPPORT YOUR IEND WOULD BE TO CELEBRATE THEM FOR MAKG CHOIC THAT FEEL HEALTHY FOR THEM, CLUDG IF THAT IS CHOOSG NOT TO E OUT."THE TREVOR PROJECT IS A NATNAL ANIZATN PROVIDG CRISIS TERVENTN FOR LGBTQ+ YOUTH UNR 25. VIS THE TREVOR PROJECT'S "COMG OUT AS YOU" ROURCE PAGE FOR MORE."ANDI MACK" AIRS FRIDAY NIGHTS AT 8/7C ON THE DISNEY CHANNEL.DISNEY IS THE PARENT PANY OF ABC NEWS AND "GOOD MORNG AMERI."UP NEXT CULTURE—BILLIE JEAN KG REFLECTS ON GENR EQUALY 50 YEARS AFTER 'BATTLE OF THE SEX' AUGT 29, 2023'BACHELORETTE' ALUM JOSH SEER 'ALIVE AND WELL' AFTER ALLEGED SOCIAL MEDIA ATH HOAXAUGT 29, 2023JOHN LEGEND SHAR ADORABLE VIO WH 'MI-ME' SON MILAUGT 29, 2023JSI ALBA SHAR PHOTO OF HER 2 DGHTERS: 'MY BABY GIRLS'AUGT 29, 2023UP NEXT CULTURE—BILLIE JEAN KG REFLECTS ON GENR EQUALY 50 YEARS AFTER 'BATTLE OF THE SEX' AUGT 29, 2023'BACHELORETTE' ALUM JOSH SEER 'ALIVE AND WELL' AFTER ALLEGED SOCIAL MEDIA ATH HOAXAUGT 29, 2023JOHN LEGEND SHAR ADORABLE VIO WH 'MI-ME' SON MILAUGT 29, 2023JSI ALBA SHAR PHOTO OF HER 2 DGHTERS: 'MY BABY GIRLS'AUGT 29, 2023

As a Jew, he’s proud to portray that part of Cys, and feels “empowered” to reprent the gay aspect of the character.

DISNEY CHANNEL STAR JOSHUA RH SAYS HE'S 'REALLY PROUD' TO PLAY A GAY CHARACTER ON 'ANDI MACK'

The character was the first gay lead of ‘Disney Channel. In Augt 2019, he announced on ‘Twter’ that he was bisexual and said was ironic that spe of spirg untls LGBT fans wh his portrayal of a famo gay character, he himself had not had the urage to clare his te sexual inty till then.

From 2017 to 2019, Joshua Rh played the inic role of ‘Cys Goodman, ’ the first gay lead character on ‘Disney, ’ wh a male love tert, ‘TJ Kippen’ (played by Le Mullen), the ‘Disney Channel’ seri ‘Andi Mack. ” He then revealed that spe of spirg untls LGBT people by portrayg a gay character ‘Andi Mack’ for 4 years, was ironic that he uld not gather the urage to reveal his te sexual inty earlier.

He also said a classmate had revealed to him he was gay when Joshua was fifth gra.