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- DISNEY CHANNEL BREAKS GROUND WH FIRST GAY STORYLE
- DISNEY'S 8 'FIRST OPENLY GAY' CHARACTERS, RANKED (BY HOW EMBARRASSED DISNEY SHOULD FEEL)
DISNEY CHANNEL BREAKS GROUND WH FIRST GAY STORYLE
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DISNEY'S 8 'FIRST OPENLY GAY' CHARACTERS, RANKED (BY HOW EMBARRASSED DISNEY SHOULD FEEL)
Typilly, if gay characters were reprented at all, their sexual orientatn was merely implied and not voiced. After jt three seasons, the Disney Channel has cid to ncel Andi Mack, s pre-teen drama seri which featured an openly gay recurrg character, a first for Disney.
While the show never explored his sexualy wh much pth, Goodman later uttered the words, “I’m gay” Febary 2019. The show was banned Kenya, Ai over of s gay ntent. Intertgly, Andi Mack was the channel’s send live-actn seri ever to prent a gay character.
Related: The strange se of the missg gay Disney Moeketeer and the body found at his home. In Augt 2018, Disney announced that would prent s first-ever openly gay character s upg film Jungle Cise starrg straight actor Jack Whehall as a gay character who is “hugely effete, very mp and very funny.