While grabbing burgers one afternoon, he asked me to pass the ketchup, so I handed him the bottle while mumbling the words, "I’m gay." He looked up at me, said "Cool," then proceeded to put ketchup on his burger as if I hadn’t just revealed my most personal, deepest truth. Jonathan Hurwitz, who wrote this episode of "Andi Mack," entitled "One in a Minyan," explained in a blog post he wrote for GLAAD that he drew from his own personal experience for the story "as someone who’s Jewish, has dealt with long-term anxiety, and has come out to his friends and family." He wrote: In the writer’s room, I shared a personal story about how nervous I was to come out to a college friend back in 2010. Many of the tweets also expressed a desire to have had something similar on TV during their own youths. In the midst of his mourning, Cyrus finds the opportunity and the courage to come out to his best guy friend, Jonah, played by actor Asher Angel, as HuffPost reported. The scene aired last week and showed Cyrus guiding his friends around his grandmother's shiva - which is the week of mourning observed by Jewish families who have experienced the loss of a loved one. When Joshua Rush, who plays the role of Cyrus in the hit Disney Channel series came out as gay to his male friend during an episode of Andi Mack earlier this month, he became the first Disney Channel character to say those two words, as well as the first openly gay character on the channel, according to BuzzFeed News. Since that announcement, viewers and champions of equality alike have been waiting with baited breath for those two magic words: "I'm gay." The Disney Channel first announced that Andi Mack would include a gay character arc back in 2017, according to Out. Making history and a powerful statement all at once, Andi Mack's coming out story on The Disney Channel has Twitter cheering for this history-making LGBT win. For that reason, representation in media is more important today than ever before. As members of the younger generations explore their identities and pick up the baton of the ongoing fight for equality, they look to society for information.
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