Hawthorne Lightyear is famed for beg a gay character a Disney film, but shows like Raven's Home and movi like Eternals have featured LGBTQ+.
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- DISNEY'S 8 'FIRST OPENLY GAY' CHARACTERS, RANKED (BY HOW EMBARRASSED DISNEY SHOULD FEEL)
- HOW MANY TIM IS DISNEY GOG TO INTRODUCE ITS ‘FIRST’ GAY CHARACTER?
DISNEY'S 8 'FIRST OPENLY GAY' CHARACTERS, RANKED (BY HOW EMBARRASSED DISNEY SHOULD FEEL)
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! * disney stars who are gay *
"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. 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.
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HOW MANY TIM IS DISNEY GOG TO INTRODUCE ITS ‘FIRST’ GAY CHARACTER?
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. * disney stars who are gay *
" 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! 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.
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.