Disney Channel's 'Andi Mack' to Introduce Gay Storyle Season 2 - Variety

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• '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’ ACTOR, WHOSE CHARACTER ME OUT AS GAY, OUT AS BISEXUAL
• DISNEY CHANNEL TO FEATURE ITS FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER ANDI MACK SEASON 2
• ‘ANDI MACK’ CHARACTER TO COME OUT AS GAY: A DISNEY CHANNEL FIRST
• DISNEY CHANNEL INTRODUC FIRST GAY STORYLE AS CYS GOODMAN COM OUT IN 'ANDI MACK'
• ‘ANDI MACK’: TEEN CHARACTER WILL COME OUT AS GAY ON DISNEY CHANNEL’S GROUNDBREAKG SERI
• ‘ANDI MACK’ REVIEW: GAY STORYLE GO STRAIGHT FOR THE HEART A SWEET AND EMOTNAL SEASON 2 PREMIERE
• DISNEY CHANNEL SHOW CHARACTER TO COME OUT AS GAY NETWORK FIRST
• DISNEY CHANNEL’S ‘ANDI MACK’ TO INTRODUCE GAY STORYLE SEASON 2
• DISNEY CHANNEL’S ANDI MACK DUBBED ‘GROUNDBREAKG’ AS FEATUR FIRST GAY TEEN UPLE FAL EPISO

'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. 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.

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

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?

"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. "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’ ACTOR, WHOSE CHARACTER ME OUT AS GAY, OUT AS BISEXUAL

Cys is the first Disney ma character to e out as gay. He go om beg aaid of his feelgs for a boy and what means to proudly but sually g out as gay to his former csh. While listg var foods, Cys sually nclus the list wh "and I'm gay!

Cys is Disney Channel (US)'s first gay ma and first gay male character.

When he out to Jonah, he says "I'm gay. " This is the first time the word "gay" has ever been ed Disney-brand media.

DISNEY CHANNEL TO FEATURE ITS FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER ANDI MACK SEASON 2

Cys is gay and is played by a bisexual actor (Rh me out Augt 2019, jt over a week after the seri fale). That's gefilte fish, skip that, and I'm gay.

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

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. 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.

Already nsired groundbreakg for s handlg of unnventnal pregnanci — the show’s tular character (played by Peyton Elizabeth Lee) learns that her “olr sister” is actually her mother — the g-of-age dramedy will soon troduce the work’s first gay character. Though this is the first time Disney Channel has shown a character’s journey to self-disvery as a gay person, ’s not the first time an LGBT character has been featured on one of s origal seri.

DISNEY CHANNEL INTRODUC FIRST GAY STORYLE AS CYS GOODMAN COM OUT IN 'ANDI MACK'

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. The Disney Channel is set to troduce the first ever gay storyle to feature one of the work’s shows.

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). 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. But to be clear, there were many stumbl durg those early years, as gay TV characters were quietly weaved to stori and met wh cidly mixed rults.

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

It was 49 years ago this month that the first recurrg gay character on Amerin televisn ma his but — set signer Peter Panama on the ltle-known ABC s The Corner Bar.

‘ANDI MACK’ REVIEW: GAY STORYLE GO STRAIGHT FOR THE HEART A SWEET AND EMOTNAL SEASON 2 PREMIERE

Played by Vcent Schiavelli (Fast Tim at Ridgemont High, Ghost), Peter was met wh risn by, among others, the Gay Activists Alliance, which took issue wh the character’s flamboyance.

S to feature an openly gay lead character, though Billy Crystal’s Jodie Dallas drew siar cricism.

Five episos to All The Fay‘s ne-season n, and nearly three s before Will & Grace arrived on the scene, seri creator/social trailblazer Norman Lear already had LGBTQ reprentatn on the bra when he troduced Ameri’s first gay s character the form of Archie’s old iend Steve (played by the late Phil Carey).

DISNEY CHANNEL SHOW CHARACTER TO COME OUT AS GAY NETWORK FIRST

In the 1971 episo, -penned by Lear and Burt Styler, ragg bigot Archie was forced to reckon wh his prenceived notns about homosexualy (not only was Steve a former lebacker, but, like Archie, he was a stnch nservative! Siarly, viewers saw Steve a gay man that was neher stereotypil nor ashamed of his inty. As one of the first openly gay ma characters on an Amerin TV show, Jodie (played by Billy Crystal) drew fire om all sis.

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

Relig groups took umbrage wh the ABC s’s cln of (among other topics) a gay character, while LGBTQ anizatns were ncerned about the portrayal beg stereotypil and/or nflated wh transsexualism, based on the scripts for early episos. They tsted a gay man wh a child…. Though Blake’s send-olst child was touted as the first openly gay ma character a primetime drama, the handlg of Steven’s sexualy — largely amed as a stggle, and a tra he often had to nceal — was joyls and imperfect to a pot that origal portrayer Al Corley vated the role.

(Dynasty -creator Esther Shapiro, her fense, sisted to Esquire that Steven “was, is, and always will be gay. The Fox sudser may have done Doug Savant’s character dirty wh that off-screen ath the fal season, but Matt will still be remembered fondly as one of the first openly gay ma characters on a work TV drama. Did most of the stori volvg Matt’s sexualy clu some sort of gay bashg or discrimatn?

Rickie provid an unapologetilly lorful and rg prence as his perplexed pal Angela navigated her high school’s social circl, but Cz’s portrayal went even eper, wh storyl about homophobia and abe wh Rickie’s own fay. In addn, Cz ma history as the first openly gay actor to play an openly gay character on work televisn.

DISNEY CHANNEL’S ANDI MACK DUBBED ‘GROUNDBREAKG’ AS FEATUR FIRST GAY TEEN UPLE FAL EPISO

When Ellen Man me out the April 30, 1997 episo of ABC’s Ellen (pictured above), she beme the first-ever gay lead character a primetime s.

Before NBC’s bawdy h s buted 1998, the terr liv of gay characters were seldom explored, if bshed up agast at all.

Pl, Will wasn’t a stereotype; his rtraed (or “borg, ” as Jack might put ) meanor proved that gay characters didn’t need to be outrageo to get the spotlight. Will & Grace s heyday ma great stris for gay reprentatn, and Will Tman — his small, subtle way — helped nudge that progrs forward, makg safe for gay men to play the “straight man, ” as were. Though not daytime soaps’ first gay character — AMC‘s own Lynn Carson (played by Donna Pw) and One Life to Live‘s Billy Douglas (Ryan Phillippe) were among her precsors — the dghter of none other than man-mag Eri Kane (played by dtry in San Lucci) ma the biggt real-world headl when she me out as a lbian a pivotal 2000 storyle, and Emmy-wng portrayer En Riegel rose to and surpassed the challenge.