Joshua Rh Opens Up About Playg Disney Channel’s First Openly Gay Character | Billboard – Billboard

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• SHOP THE BT OF 'THE RIGHT STUFF'!OPEN 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.SEARCHCULTUREDISNEY CHANNEL STAR JOSHUA RH OUT AS BISEXUAL4:56'ANDI MACK' ST DISH ON NEW SEASON: 'IT MAK DIVERSY NORMAL'BYLLEY MSER AND TONY MORRISONAUGT 06, 2019, 2:55 PM•2 M READDISNEY CHANNEL STAR JOSHUA RH HAS E OUT AS BISEXUAL.THE ACTOR TWEETED ON TUDAY THAT SPE PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER, CYS, ON "ANDI MACK," WAS DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO BE PUBLIC ABOUT HIS SEXUALY.HE ADD THAT HE SUFFERED OM "TERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA" THAT LED TO AN "EXISTENTIAL CRISIS," BUT NOW, "I RELEASE TO THE WORLD.""BEG BI ISN'T ALL OF MY INTY, NOR IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF MY INTY," RH TWEETED. "BI ERASURE AND ISSU LIKE ARE IMPORTANT, BUT TRANS WOMEN OF LOR STILL HAVE A LIFE EXPECTANCY OF THIRTY FIVE YEARS AND THAT IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE."(MORE: 'ANDI MACK' MAK HISTORY WH FIRST DISNEY CHANNEL CHARACTER TO SAY 'I'M GAY')RH, 17, MA HISTORY LAST YEAR WHEN HIS "ANDI MACK" CHARACTER ME OUT AS GAY, BEG THE FIRST DISNEY CHANNEL CHARACTER EVER TO DO SO. THE POSIVE RPONSE OM FANS WAS SPIRATNAL, HE SAID."INSTEAD OF FEELG THE URAGE TO TELL YOU TODAY THAT I AM AN OUT AND PROUD BISEXUAL MAN BEE OF THE CHARACTER I PLAYED FOR FOUR YEARS, I FEEL THAT URAGE THKG OF ALL OF YOU, WHO FELT EMBOLNED BY CYS TO E OUT," HE WROTE.IN HIS TWTER THREAD, RH ALSO ENURAGED HIS 69,800 FOLLOWERS TO DONATE TO GLAAD AND THE TREVOR PROJECT, TWO ANIZATNS DITED TO SUPPORTG THE LGBTQ MUNY."JOSHUA RH PNEERED A ROLE THAT POSIVELY IMPACTED THE LIV OF LGBTQ YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAI, AND 'S SO ENURAGG TO KNOW THAT THE RPONSE OM VIEWERS AND FANS GAVE HIM THE URAGE AND THE NFINCE TO LIVE HIS OWN LIFE THENTILLY," SAID ZEKE STOK, GLAAD CHIEF PROGRAMS OFFICER, A STATEMENT. "SHARG HIS TTH WILL NO DOUBT SPIRE UNTLS OTHERS."ADD AM PALEY, CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE TREVOR PROJECT: "IT N MEAN SO MUCH TO YOUNG LGBTQ PEOPLE TO SEE THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY PORTRAYED MEDIA AND HOLLYWOOD, PECIALLY IF THEY AREN'T ABLE TO SAFELY EXPRS THEMSELV. WE'RE GRATEFUL TO JOSHUA RH FOR SHOWG HIS FANS THAT HE SUPPORTS THEM, AND THAT THEY ARE PERFECT AND BETIFUL THE WAY THEY ARE."UP NEXT CULTURE—'DUNE: PART TWO' RELEASE DATE SHIFTS TO 2024AUGT 25, 2023SELENA GOMEZ RELEAS NEW SONG 'SGLE SOON': WATCH THE MIC VIOAUGT 25, 2023MILEY CYS RELEAS NEW SGLE 'USED TO BE YOUNG': WATCH THE MIC VIOAUGT 25, 2023REVIEW: 'AHSOKA' IS A PROVOTIVE PORTRA OF SISTERHOOD TAKG ON A FADG PATRIARCHYAUGT 25, 2023UP NEXT CULTURE—'DUNE: PART TWO' RELEASE DATE SHIFTS TO 2024AUGT 25, 2023SELENA GOMEZ RELEAS NEW SONG 'SGLE SOON': WATCH THE MIC VIOAUGT 25, 2023MILEY CYS RELEAS NEW SGLE 'USED TO BE YOUNG': WATCH THE MIC VIOAUGT 25, 2023REVIEW: 'AHSOKA' IS A PROVOTIVE PORTRA OF SISTERHOOD TAKG ON A FADG PATRIARCHYAUGT 25, 2023
• JOSHUA RH ON PLAYG DISNEY CHANNEL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER: ‘I FEEL THE PRSURE’

SHOP THE BT OF 'THE RIGHT STUFF'!OPEN 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.SEARCHCULTUREDISNEY CHANNEL STAR JOSHUA RH OUT AS BISEXUAL4:56'ANDI MACK' ST DISH ON NEW SEASON: 'IT MAK DIVERSY NORMAL'BYLLEY MSER AND TONY MORRISONAUGT 06, 2019, 2:55 PM•2 M READDISNEY CHANNEL STAR JOSHUA RH HAS E OUT AS BISEXUAL.THE ACTOR TWEETED ON TUDAY THAT SPE PLAYG A GAY CHARACTER, CYS, ON "ANDI MACK," WAS DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO BE PUBLIC ABOUT HIS SEXUALY.HE ADD THAT HE SUFFERED OM "TERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA" THAT LED TO AN "EXISTENTIAL CRISIS," BUT NOW, "I RELEASE TO THE WORLD.""BEG BI ISN'T ALL OF MY INTY, NOR IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF MY INTY," RH TWEETED. "BI ERASURE AND ISSU LIKE ARE IMPORTANT, BUT TRANS WOMEN OF LOR STILL HAVE A LIFE EXPECTANCY OF THIRTY FIVE YEARS AND THAT IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE."(MORE: 'ANDI MACK' MAK HISTORY WH FIRST DISNEY CHANNEL CHARACTER TO SAY 'I'M GAY')RH, 17, MA HISTORY LAST YEAR WHEN HIS "ANDI MACK" CHARACTER ME OUT AS GAY, BEG THE FIRST DISNEY CHANNEL CHARACTER EVER TO DO SO. THE POSIVE RPONSE OM FANS WAS SPIRATNAL, HE SAID."INSTEAD OF FEELG THE URAGE TO TELL YOU TODAY THAT I AM AN OUT AND PROUD BISEXUAL MAN BEE OF THE CHARACTER I PLAYED FOR FOUR YEARS, I FEEL THAT URAGE THKG OF ALL OF YOU, WHO FELT EMBOLNED BY CYS TO E OUT," HE WROTE.IN HIS TWTER THREAD, RH ALSO ENURAGED HIS 69,800 FOLLOWERS TO DONATE TO GLAAD AND THE TREVOR PROJECT, TWO ANIZATNS DITED TO SUPPORTG THE LGBTQ MUNY."JOSHUA RH PNEERED A ROLE THAT POSIVELY IMPACTED THE LIV OF LGBTQ YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAI, AND 'S SO ENURAGG TO KNOW THAT THE RPONSE OM VIEWERS AND FANS GAVE HIM THE URAGE AND THE NFINCE TO LIVE HIS OWN LIFE THENTILLY," SAID ZEKE STOK, GLAAD CHIEF PROGRAMS OFFICER, A STATEMENT. "SHARG HIS TTH WILL NO DOUBT SPIRE UNTLS OTHERS."ADD AM PALEY, CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE TREVOR PROJECT: "IT N MEAN SO MUCH TO YOUNG LGBTQ PEOPLE TO SEE THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY PORTRAYED MEDIA AND HOLLYWOOD, PECIALLY IF THEY AREN'T ABLE TO SAFELY EXPRS THEMSELV. WE'RE GRATEFUL TO JOSHUA RH FOR SHOWG HIS FANS THAT HE SUPPORTS THEM, AND THAT THEY ARE PERFECT AND BETIFUL THE WAY THEY ARE."UP NEXT CULTURE—'DUNE: PART TWO' RELEASE DATE SHIFTS TO 2024AUGT 25, 2023SELENA GOMEZ RELEAS NEW SONG 'SGLE SOON': WATCH THE MIC VIOAUGT 25, 2023MILEY CYS RELEAS NEW SGLE 'USED TO BE YOUNG': WATCH THE MIC VIOAUGT 25, 2023REVIEW: 'AHSOKA' IS A PROVOTIVE PORTRA OF SISTERHOOD TAKG ON A FADG PATRIARCHYAUGT 25, 2023UP NEXT CULTURE—'DUNE: PART TWO' RELEASE DATE SHIFTS TO 2024AUGT 25, 2023SELENA GOMEZ RELEAS NEW SONG 'SGLE SOON': WATCH THE MIC VIOAUGT 25, 2023MILEY CYS RELEAS NEW SGLE 'USED TO BE YOUNG': WATCH THE MIC VIOAUGT 25, 2023REVIEW: 'AHSOKA' IS A PROVOTIVE PORTRA OF SISTERHOOD TAKG ON A FADG PATRIARCHYAUGT 25, 2023

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. Augt 06, 2019, 2:55 pm2 m readDisney Channel star Joshua Rh has e out as actor tweeted on Tuday that spe playg a gay character, Cys, on "Andi Mack, " was difficult for him to be public about his add that he suffered om "ternalized homophobia" that led to an "existential crisis, " but now, "I release to the world.

"Rh, 17, ma history last year when his "Andi Mack" character me out as gay, beg the first Disney Channel character ever to do so.

JOSHUA RH ON PLAYG DISNEY CHANNEL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER: ‘I FEEL THE PRSURE’

"The vio was to reprent the young woman today -- 's not the tradnal woman anymore -- and not the specifics of 'Am I gay?

Rodriguez plays gay high school stunt, choreographer, assistant director, and actor Carlos Disney+'s High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri. Andi Mack's Joshua Rh played the first-ever Disney Channel character to say "I'm gay" on the work.

"I suffered wh some level of my own ternalized homophobia even while playg the first openly gay character on Disney Channel.