I do not learn about you, however as a Gen Z’er, I spent virtually each waking hour of childhood watching TV reveals on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. OK, so perhaps not EVERY waking hour, however I watched it as a lot as I may.
And because it seems, a few of our fave stars who we grew up adoring truly ended up popping out as LGBTQ+ lengthy after their time as baby stars ended. So it is about time we rejoice them, lets? Let’s go!
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Gotta begin with our woman, Raven-Symoné. She came out as gay publicly in 2013, ten years after That’s So Raven first aired. She stated she’s identified since she was 12, although, whereas she was on the present. Raven acquired married to her spouse, Miranda Pearman-Maday, in 2020!
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Miley Cyrus, like absolutely the icon that she is, got here out as pansexual in 2016. She opened up about how she’s “at all times hated the phrase ‘bisexual,'” as a result of she felt it put her “in a field,” and likewise stated her first-ever relationship was “with a chick.” ALL HAIL THE QUEEEEEN!
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Demi Lovato is a queer Disney icon, after all, however you may not keep in mind how she got here out. In 2015, she confirmed that the banger “Cool For The Summer time” was a couple of relationship with a girl. Finally, she got here out as pansexual in 2021. She came out as nonbinary in 2021, and in line with her Instagram bio, she makes use of each they/them and she or he/her pronouns.
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Josie Totah, who you would possibly know from Jessie, got here out as trans to the general public in 2018 by way of an article revealed in Time Journal known as “My Title Is Josie Totah — And I’m Able to Be Free.” Within the article, she explains having come out to her household and beginning her transition three years earlier than, at age 14.
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Talking of Jessie…Josie Totah’s costar Karan Brar, who performed Ravi on the present, came out as bisexual in an essay for Teen Vogue in late 2023.
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Cannot overlook about my private fave, Alyson Stoner, the Camp Rock and Suite Life legend. Alyson got here out in a 2018 essay for Teen Vogue, saying they’re interested in “individuals of each gender identification and expression,” and likewise opened up about having to attend homosexual conversion remedy. Then, a number of years later, Alyson revealed they now go by they/them pronouns.
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Subsequent up, Keke Palmer, who I first noticed within the 2007 DCOM Leap In! In 2016, individuals started speculating she was queer after the music video for her tune “I Don’t Belong To You” got here out (as a result of she’s with a girl within the video). She ended up saying, “I do not wish to be caught down to at least one label.” Since then, she has mentioned her conflicts with her sexuality rising up, particularly round “overthinking” it, and simply eager to “discover” now.
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Dove Cameron! You would possibly know her from the titular roles in Liv and Maddie. After being accused of queerbaiting in 2020, Dove got here out on an Instagram dwell and described herself as “tremendous queer.”
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Confession time: I at all times overlook Bella Thorne began on the Disney present Shake It Up alongside Zendaya. Bella got here out as bisexual in 2016 on X (then Twitter), however then stated she identifies more as pansexual in 2019.
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OK, so technically Rowan Blanchard got here out on the similar time her Disney present Lady Meets World was on air — just like the icon she is — however I could not not add her to this record. In 2016, two years into the present, she came out as queer on X.
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Garrett Clayton, *that* hunk from Teen Seashore Film (who you may additionally know from Hairspray Reside), introduced he was homosexual in 2018 in an Instagram post. In the identical put up, he introduced he was relationship his then-boyfriend, now-husband, author Blake Knight. How cute!!
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I can not overlook about Michael Seater — not simply because he is a Canadian legend, but in addition as a result of he starred in one of many best Disney reveals ever, Life With Derek. Michael Seater (*the* Derek) is queer. Though we do not know an excessive amount of about his relationship life, we rejoice him anyway (and we love a non-public king).
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Corey Fogelmanis from Lady Meets World got here out as queer in 2020. It was three years after the present ended, and he reportedly made the announcement by way of an Instagram put up for his first LA Satisfaction parade.
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Final however not least, now we have Matthew Scott Montgomery, who starred in So Random! He explained that “nobody” within the forged knew on the time, and described his “very, very conservative” mother and father’ response to his popping out as a “nightmare.” He even agreed to go to conversion remedy afterward. “You are taught that you simply need to be punished on a regular basis,” he stated.
Who’s your fave from this record? Know another baby stars who ultimately got here out as LGBTQ+? Inform me within the feedback under!