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

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• ‘ANDI MACK’ ACTOR, WHOSE CHARACTER ME OUT AS GAY, OUT AS BISEXUAL
• 'ANDI MACK' STAR HONORED TO PLAY DISNEY CHANNEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER
• ‘ANDI MACK’ CHARACTER TO COME OUT AS GAY: A DISNEY CHANNEL FIRST
• ‘ANDI MACK’: TEEN CHARACTER WILL COME OUT AS GAY ON DISNEY CHANNEL’S GROUNDBREAKG SERI
• 'ANDI MACK' STAR HONORED TO PLAY DISNEY CHANNEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER
• 'ANDI MACK' MAK HISTORY WH FIRST DISNEY CHANNEL CHARACTER TO SAY 'I'M GAY'
• JOSHUA RH ON PLAYG DISNEY'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER: I WANTED TO 'DO IT JTICE'
• JOSHUA RH ON PLAYG DISNEY CHANNEL’S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER: ‘I FEEL THE PRSURE’

‘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.

Disney Channel star Joshua Rh, whose "Andi Mack" character, Cys, me out as gay on the show Febary, is now openg up about his own 17-year-old took to Twter to reveal he's bisexual. "Even though his character was openly gay, Rh nfsed he experienced self-loathg toward his own sexualy. I suffered wh some level of my own ternalized homophobia even while playg the first openly gay character on Disney Channel.

'ANDI MACK' STAR HONORED TO PLAY DISNEY CHANNEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER

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 sh (@JoshuaRh) Augt 6, 2019Rh, who played Cys on the Disney Channel seri, ma history when his character me out on the show beg the work’s first openly gay character. — joshua sh (@JoshuaRh) Augt 6, 2019The Disney star said he suffered wh “ternalized homophobia” while playg Cys. I’m so glad you don’t suffer wh ternalized homophobia anymore and that you now have the urage to e out.

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

Andi Mack star Joshua Rh has revealed that he is Cys Goodman actor, who ma history by playg the first character a Disney Channel seri to e out as gay, opened up to fans about his own sexualy a seri of tweets.

"Joshua went on to speak about his own "ternalised homophobia" after a iend me out to him fifth gra, ntug: "I stuffed the existential crisis of talkg about my sexual orientatn to a box my md for years. 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 Disney Channel’s “ Andi Mack” ma history last fall when revealed one of s prcipal characters to be gay ― a first for the fay-iendly work.

‘ANDI MACK’: TEEN CHARACTER WILL COME OUT AS GAY ON DISNEY CHANNEL’S GROUNDBREAKG SERI

In subsequent episos, Cys to embrace his inty as a young gay the character’s storyle was troduced October, quickly ma untls headl and stirred s share of ntroversy.

For his part, Rh said he expected that playg a gay character would be sctized.

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. As the show returns for a sophomore season, ’s revealed that Andi (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) isn’t the only character wh a csh on one of the boys at school, Jonah Beck (Asher Angel).

'ANDI MACK' STAR HONORED TO PLAY DISNEY CHANNEL'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER

This leads to Cys gog on a journey to fe himself as a gay dividual this season, spe the fact he has a girliend Iris (Molly Jackson).

This is a first for Disney Channel to pict character’s journey to self-disvery as a gay dividual. ” Disney Channel had prevly tted the waters for LGBTQ-adjacent storytellg by cludg gay parents on both the live-actn edy “Good Luck Charlie” and animated seri “Doc McStuffs.

Read More‘Will & Grace’: Beyond Its Gay Characters, Revival Will Tackle Transgenr And Other LGBTQ Issu. The Disney Channel’s “Andi Mack” ma history last fall when revealed one of s prcipal characters to be gay ― a first for the fay-iendly work.

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

"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.

JOSHUA RH ON PLAYG DISNEY'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER: I WANTED TO 'DO IT JTICE'

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. "I feel the prsure and I also don't, " Joshua Rh says of playg Disney Channel's first openly gay character. When Joshua Rh found out he’d be playg Disney Channel’s first openly gay character, he spent a lot of time preparg for the historic moment.

Rh had prevly opened up to PEOPLE about the importance of reprentg gay teenagers onscreen. him the channel's first openly gay character.

ternalized homophobia even while playg the first openly gay.

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

Joshua Rh on Playg Disney Channel’s First Openly Gay Character: ‘I Feel the Prsure’. But on the show Andi Mack, Disney is fally portrayg an openly gay character.