Kenya Bans 'Andi Mack' Over Gay Character Crackdown on LGBT Content - Variety

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• ‘ANDI MACK’ ACTOR, WHOSE CHARACTER ME OUT AS GAY, OUT AS BISEXUAL
• 'ANDI MACK' MAK HISTORY WH FIRST DISNEY CHANNEL CHARACTER TO SAY 'I'M GAY'
• 'ANDI MACK': CYS BE FIRST EVER GAY DISNEY CHANNEL CHARACTER
• ‘ANDI MACK’ CHARACTER TO COME OUT AS GAY: A DISNEY CHANNEL FIRST
• DISNEY CHANNEL TO FEATURE FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER AND COMG OUT STORY ON ‘ANDI MACK’
• OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
• ‘ANDI MACK’ CHARACTER TO COME OUT AS GAY: A DISNEY CHANNEL FIRST
• DISNEY CHANNEL’S ‘ANDI MACK’ TO INTRODUCE GAY STORYLE SEASON 2
• A DISNEY CHANNEL FIRST: ‘ANDI MACK’ TO FEATURE A GAY STORYLE SEASON 2
• KENYA BANS ‘ANDI MACK’ OVER GAY CHARACTER, CRACKDOWN ON LGBT CONTENT

‘ANDI MACK’ ACTOR, WHOSE CHARACTER ME OUT AS GAY, OUT AS BISEXUAL

A 17-year-old -star of the jt end, ma--Utah seri “Andi Mack” has e out as bisexual — almost two years after the character he played me out as gay. “I suffered wh some level of my own ternalized homophobia even while playg the first openly gay character on Disney Channel, ” he Season 2 of “Andi Mack, ” Rh’s character, Cys, had a csh on another boy and me out to his iends. "I'm gay.

His performance as Cys also marks the first portrayal of an openly gay character on Disney Channel. " "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 reactn to his character g out?

Cys fds 's the right time for him to e out to his bt guy iend, Jonah, played by actor Asher 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 's one of those scen:"Cys has tght me a lot about beg fortable wh myself no matter what others thk, " Rh told "GMA.

'ANDI MACK' MAK HISTORY WH FIRST DISNEY CHANNEL CHARACTER TO SAY 'I'M GAY'

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. The Disney Channel officially has s first-ever openly gay character. Durg a recent episo of Andi Mack, Cys Goodman (played by Joshua Rh) ma history by utterg the words "I'm gay" to a iend.

""And I'm gay, " he add, played by Asher Angel, simply sed and said, "Yeah?

'ANDI MACK': CYS BE FIRST EVER GAY DISNEY CHANNEL CHARACTER

"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.

‘ANDI MACK’ CHARACTER TO COME OUT AS GAY: A DISNEY CHANNEL FIRST

"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. “Andi Mack” is the first Disney Channel program to clu a gay ma character, Cys, (played by Joshua Rh) who revealed his sexualy two simple but powerful words: “I’m gay. My parents are homophobic, and my sisters are, too.

In a first for Disney Channel, a key character on s popular tween seri Andi Mack will realize he’s gay and e out to his story arc will mark the channel’s first pictn of a g-out journey.

While there have been gay characters on the work before — Good Luck Chuck a briefly featured a lbian uple — this is the first time a g-out story will be told. For the first time a young character discsed beg gay on the Disney Channel.

DISNEY CHANNEL TO FEATURE FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER AND COMG OUT STORY ON ‘ANDI MACK’

ByLESLEY MESSERNovember 4, 2017, 1:07 PM— -- Last month, "Andi Mack" beme the first seri on The Disney Channel to pict a character g out as gay, when Joshua Rh's character, Cys, told his iend Buffy, played by Sofia Wylie, that he had feelgs for a male, a reprentative for Disney said last month, "mak for posive role mols for kid and adult viewers. ”“What andi mack has: cultural rep, gun ntrol rep, lgbt rep (CANON gay character), female empowerment rep, mental illns rep, disabily rep, jt the amount of clivy and diversy is sane + was and IS their most popular show. Sunday’s “Great Midwtern Trendkill” event wasn’t the first time out gay pro wrtler AC Mack stepped to a Naptown All-Pro Wrtlg rg, but will be his last.

OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN

He is an out gay Black man the South who thrived, buildg human nnectns whose strength manifted the emotnal rponse by the ACTION fanbase when he announced he was leavg -rg petn last month. In a first for Disney Channel, a key character on s popular tween seri Andi Mack will realize he’s gay and e out to his iends.

‘ANDI MACK’ CHARACTER TO COME OUT AS GAY: A DISNEY CHANNEL FIRST

Disney Channel seri “Andi Mack” will reveal that one of the ma characters is gay the upg Season 2 premiere. This realizatn begs an important part of his journey to self-disvery as a gay dividual and ultimately, his self-acceptance.

The story arc marks a first for Disney Channel, as will be the first time the channel has picted a character’s journey to disverg they are gay. The average viewer is 10 years move to nfirm Cys as gay (somethg the show hted at durg the first season) is bound to e some ntroversy among select viewers, but was quickly praised by LGBTQ groups.

The Disney Channel ma history this week when the hugely popular tween s Andi Mack troduced a gay storyle – the ia beg to set a posive example to young kids who might be stgglg wh the realisatn they are gay.

DISNEY CHANNEL’S ‘ANDI MACK’ TO INTRODUCE GAY STORYLE SEASON 2

The show, which has an average viewer age of 10, centr around Andi’s fay and iendship dramas, and Friday’s season two US premiere, Andi’s bt iend Cys nfsed that he has feelgs for the same guy as her, their lucky classmate, Andi-Jonah-Cys love triangle is the first gay storyle the work’s 34-year history.

While is a ltle late, I say good for gay Gen Z.

Photograph: Channel 4 Picture PublicyBrooksi was famoly the first programme on a Brish terrtrial channel to air a gay kiss before the watershed. But by the late 90s, when I was allowed to tune , Claire Sweeney’s hard-as-nails night club owner Ldsey Corkhill was given a gay storyle of her own.

A DISNEY CHANNEL FIRST: ‘ANDI MACK’ TO FEATURE A GAY STORYLE SEASON 2

Burke starred as Lda La Hugh, a foulmouthed red head, nstantly teased by gay bt iend Tom (Jam Dreyf full-on mce mo). Photograph: New Le/Kobal/REX/ShutterstockStanford, the man who troduced me to the ia of the Gay Bt Friend, the early 2000s “let’s get bnch and go shoppg” sense of the term. Sometim he was treated like as much of an accsory as Carrie’s Manolo Blahniks, but he was a much-need TV pictn of a gay man who wasn’t ripped and mcly and didn’t have sex all the time.

He was, loyal, kd, classy and the exact kd of gay you wanted to be bt iends wh. Kenyan thori have banned the Disney Channel’s “Andi Mack” bee of the program’s upg gay storyle, part of an ongog crackdown the Ain untry on LGBT ntent. The board announced the ban Monday, jt days after was revealed that the show’s send season would feature a key character realizg he’s gay.

KENYA BANS ‘ANDI MACK’ OVER GAY CHARACTER, CRACKDOWN ON LGBT CONTENT

The post add: “Gay Content Will Not Air Kenya…PERIOD! Njeri Gate, the executive director of Kenya’s Natnal Gay & Lbian Human Rights Commissn, said Mutua’s cisn was disappotg and an overreach of thory. ” Homosexualy is a crimal offense Kenya.