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Rowan Blanchard Controversy

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Rowan Blanchard is a 14-year-old actress who plays Riley Mathews on Girl Meets World.

Last week, Blanchard came out “queer”. Blanchard tweeted “yes open to liking any gender in future is why I identify as queer.” – See more at:
Blachard is one the many celebrities who no longer identifies as straight.

Normally I hate celebrity gossip, and I really don’t care what another person identifies themselves as. If somebody wants to identify themselves as a hetroflexible male one minute, and a homoflexible women the next women, fine with me. I don’t judge people based on their sexuality. But Rowan Blanchard is the youngest celebrity that I can remember to come out. Blanchard’s coming out has caused controversy, mainly among parents.

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And why shouldn’t we encourage and celebrate kids coming out as LGBTQ? It’s bad enough that kids (and adults) have to stay in the closet out of fear getting beat up. The only thing people within the LGBTQ community want is to not to be fired from their jobs, not get attacked just for expressing who they are. People within the LGBTQ community also want to have the same rights as everybody else.
What If Girl Meets World Had a Gay Character?

If Disney had decided to add a gay character on Girl Meets World, there’s no telling how they would introduce that character. But if I was a writer of that show, here’s what I would do.

Cory introduces a new girl to class. Let’s call her Katie. Katie is smart and she’s into sports. Katie subtly flirts with Riley. Katie and Riley starts to hang out and they get along great. Lucas, Maya, and Farkle start to notice that Katie likes Riley. But Riley is too oblivious. This epispode makes a meta-reference. “Is she old enough to know?” Maya tells Riley that Katie likes her. Riley is like “Oh…okay.”

Later on the episode, Riley confronts Katie. After about a minute of awkwardness. Katie admits that she likes Riley, but Riley tells Katie that she likes somebody else. Katie figures out that Riley likes

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