Disney Channel is making history with its first gay coming-out story

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Disney constantly breaks ground, an honestly makes good entertainment (well, I'm not fond of their TV shows so much, but lots of teens love them), yet so many people hate Disney, I don't get it.

I think Disney is only making history within the Disney world.  I mean the main character in this as far as I can tell isn't gay.  It's one of the main characters.  

Tv shows featuring one of the main characters being gay have been going since the 70s.

I remember when I was younger we have a show in the UK called Byker Grove which is a kids show and one of the characters on that came out as gay within the show and that must have been at the latest in the mid 90s.

Not to say there isn't any controversy over gay characters, there might be, especially in a show where the kids are as young as they are. But I think it's a stretch to call this breaking ground or making history.  

I might be missing something because even the BBC is reporting this as making history, but as I said I managed to think of a kids show off the top of my head with a gay character storyline from the 90s, and if you included standard non kid shows you can really take your pick from the amount of gay characters.  Willow was gay in Buffy the vampire slayer, and that was also 90s.

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OK, tried to watch Andi Mack and couldn't, made it thru 15 min. To sappy. 

Might give another episode a try later but not gonna hold my breath.

It's a Disney show about 13 year olds, the average viewer is 10 years old according to the BBC report I just read.  I think you're way outside the target audience for this one.