Some of your favore Disney Channel stars are also proud members of the betiful LGBTQIA+ muny. Whether they intify as gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer/qutng, tersex, asexual or somethg else, the inic celebs have shared personal rmatn about their inti to help provi more visibily for queer people around the world. Learn more about Miley Cys, Demi Lovato, Mollee Gray and more!
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- DISNEY'S 8 'FIRST OPENLY GAY' CHARACTERS, RANKED (BY HOW EMBARRASSED DISNEY SHOULD FEEL)
- 17 GAY AND LGBTQ DISNEY CHARACTERS – OM D TO NON TO TASTROPHE
- DISNEY GETS SUPER GAY: INSI ITS FIRST PRI CONCERT AND TROUBLOME QUEER HISTORY
DISNEY'S 8 'FIRST OPENLY GAY' CHARACTERS, RANKED (BY HOW EMBARRASSED DISNEY SHOULD FEEL)
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Rodriguez plays gay high school stunt, choreographer, assistant director, and actor Carlos Disney+'s High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri. "I suffered wh some level of my own ternalized homophobia even while playg the first openly gay character on Disney Channel. Garrett Clayton has appeared the DCOM Teen Beach Movie and the Disney show Shake It Up, before starrg the gay porn te crime movie Kg Cobra.
" Advertisement - Contue Readg Below8 Bella ThorneDiree Navarro//Getty ImagAdvertisement - Contue Readg Below9 Raven SymoneJason LaVeris//Getty ImagThe star of 'That's So Raven, ' a Disney Channel staple, officially me out when gay marriage was legalized across the Uned Stat by tweetg "I n fally get married! "Openg up about her cisn to e out publicly, Dove told Gay Tim: "When the song me out, everybody got the ia that the song was a big LGBTQ+ anthem song and I found myself this posn where everyone thought I was queerbag. " Rpondg to a fan, Rowan also add "y open to likg any genr future is why I intify as queer" a 2017 terview wh Nylon, Rowan opened up about the tweets: "I jt don’t unrstand why you’re straight or gay.
17 GAY AND LGBTQ DISNEY CHARACTERS – OM D TO NON TO TASTROPHE
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"Joshua then went on to expla that, spe playg the first ever Disney Channel ma character who is gay, was difficult for him to e out. The Walt Disney Company is currently hot water for supportg legislators who are behd Florida's current "Don't Say Gay" bill, which will ban tors om talkg about LGBTQ+ issu schools. The pany got to even hotter water after s CEO, Bob Chapek, released a statement sayg that the pany ma a bigger impact by tellg "diverse stori" and clive ntent than by standg agast the bill or g s money to bat, many current and former Disney and Pixar employe are speakg out, allegg that the pany has censored same-sex acttractn om movi, and mandg that the pany do more to help real-life LGBTQ+ people while makg money off of their fact, Disney has been happy to make billns of dollars off of LGBTQ+ people for years, g gay artists, actors, wrers, and performers to create many of their most inic characters, shows, and movi.
Here's a look at some of the gay, bisexual, and lbian people who ma Disney what is isn't even to mentn the thoands of LGBTQ+ artists, wrers, directors, animators, actors, micians, and others who've worked on Disney shows and movi over the years, makg the pany what is today. On the other si of thgs, creasgly vol homophobic and transphobic hate movements have attacked Disney for cludg any LGBTQ+ reprentatn at all (per CNN).
Long before announcements about "Disney's first gay character" beme somethg of a meme, the first direct reference to a gay person a Disney movie om a somewhat surprisg source: "The Prcs Diari 2: Royal Engagement" 2004. " Rpons to the episo at the time were posive among the LGBTQ+ muny, wh GLAAD and queer former Disney star Miley Cys celebratg, while the far-right anti-gay group One Milln Moms protted the episo.
DISNEY GETS SUPER GAY: INSI ITS FIRST PRI CONCERT AND TROUBLOME QUEER HISTORY
On episo six of ‘The Other Two’ season three, Cary Dubek do the voice of a gay Disney character named Globby. It turns out ‘Big Hero 6: The Seri’ has a queer globby character already. * gay disney celebrities *
The 2017 live-actn remake of "Bety and the Beast" arrived wh signifint prs verage about featurg an "exclively gay" moment volvg Gaston's sikick LeFou, played by Josh Gad. Even this fairly mor gay reprentatn, however, was enough for the blockbter remake to be pulled om theaters Alabama and temporarily banned Malaysia.
Disney Channel had briefly featured gay romanc before, but wasn't until 2019 when Cys Goodman (played by bisexual actor Joshua Rh) on "Andi Mack" beme the first Disney Channel character to say the words "I'm gay.