“I stuffed the existential crisis of talking about my sexual orientation into a box in my mind for years. “I suffered with some level of my own internalized homophobia even while playing the first openly gay character on Disney Channel. FIFTH GRADE! That was well before I had any clue of my own identity and orientation. He continued: “I had a close friend of mine come out to me in fifth grade. ![]() In the lengthy thread, Rush went on to recall the time his friend came out to him in the fifth grade and how he suffered from internalised homophobia. There are more important things to talk about than me liking a whole bunch of genders, but I do want to share a few things with you guys. And now that I’ve said that, I have a few things to rant about. “Instead of feeling the courage to tell you today that I am an out and proud bisexual man because of the character I played for four years, I feel that courage thinking of all of you, who felt emboldened by Cyrus to come out.”įirst! i win! it’s me. “How ironic, isn’t it, that me, playing that character, never had mustered up that courage? “I saw so many of you watch Cyrus come out and said “Hey! I can be me!” The actor starred as 13-year-old Cyrus Goodman in the hit Disney teen-drama and made history as being the first ever character to say they are gay on the Disney Channel.Īs the show was cancelled, it ended with Cyrus being in a same-sex relationship – another milestone for the Disney Channel.Īnd now, the actor has opened up about his own sexuality on a Twitter thread and admitted he took inspiration from his character. ![]() ![]()
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