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He told The Advocate that he came out at 18.
Another Teen Beach Movie star, Mollee Gray says she kept her sexuality hidden because she was worried it would impact her career. Their email is lasher.megan@gmail.com.
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Disney Channel stars are often expected to be the perfect role models for their young fans and are told to avoid controversy at all costs -- which is why many actors from the network choose to keep their personal life as private as possible.
Since their run on Disney ended, many stars have admitted that they felt obligated to hide a part of themselves, especially if they were a member of the LGBTQ+ community.
It ultimately forced him to check into rehab while dealing with “depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts.”
“I’d spent years trying to fastidiously maintain a public facade, and yet there I was, fulfilling the Disney star rehab prophecy I had been adamant on avoiding.
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The star of 'That's So Raven,' a Disney Channel staple, officially came out when gay marriage was legalized across the United States by tweeting "I can finally get married!" Get it, girl!
This 'Girl Meets World' star has become an LGBTQ icon for her activism and visibility outside of the show.
It doesn't take long for Bobby to realize he doesn't like her like that and instead might have feelings for his best friend, Liam.
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Unsure if Liam feels the same about him, Bobby keeps his feelings hidden from Liam but tells his mom's work friend, who happens to be a lesbian.
Numerous reporters have asked me in interviews how it feels to be a young gay man…I almost felt like I owed it to everybody to be that gay boy. Despite the discrimination, Alyson says it was all worth it and the “beauty far outweighs the hate comments and death threats.”
Dove Cameron came out as queer in 2020, after wrapping her roles on Liv & Maddie as well as the Descendants franchise.
I’m not being myself on this show, I’m being a character. At the time, they had fallen in love with a woman and felt that it was doing her a disservice to hide their relationship any longer. That's a bad reason,’” Raven told them. This is something I want to represent through my music because it's who I am.’”
In 2023, Jessie star Karan Brar came out as bisexual in an essay for Teen Vogue.
In the show, Bobby begins to question his sexuality when his friends push him to date a popular girl at school. It’s something everyone wants, to feel understood," she wrote. He says "Yoo-hoo! In a candid essay, Josie shared her truth, which was different than what many people had believed.
“I let myself be shoved into a box: ‘J.J.
And my name is Josie Totah.”
Camp Rock star Alyson Stoner came out as queer in a personal essay in 2018. I was flooded with a sense of failure, but there was no turning back now,” Karan wrote.
Thankfully, he was able to get the help he needed and now find his “emotions to be much more manageable.” While he still likes to “keep things close to the vest online,” he now feels “the gap between who I am and who I appear to be is shrinking.”
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The audience can assume that Oaken and the man are in a relationship and these are their children.Orka and Flix in Star Wars Resistance are two openly gay characters who aren't human and are actually two different species but are openly in a relationship in the series.
There's been other LGBTQ+ representation in the Star Wars universe as well like writers and actor Donald Glover confirming that Lando in Solo: A Star Wars Story is pansexual.
She ultimately decided to come out after the release of her song “We Belong,” as many fans used it as an example of queerbaiting and she wanted to shut that down.
“When the song came out, everybody got the idea that the song was a big LGBTQ+ anthem song and I found myself in this position where everyone thought I was queerbaiting,” she told Gay Times.
But that has never been the way I think of myself,” Josie wrote in a piece for Time.
She continued, “In the past, I’ve halfway corrected people by telling them I identify as LGBTQ. I identify as female, specifically as a transgender female.