There is a particular kind of courage required to portray, publicly and convincingly, the very truth one cannot yet speak privately. Michael Johnston spent years doing exactly that — playing a gay teenager on Teen Wolf while quietly wrestling with his own identity in the shadow of a conservative Southern upbringing. By the time he came out in 2023, the role had already done its quiet work: not only for the thousands of LGBTQ+ viewers who wrote to tell him Corey Bryant had helped them find their own voices, but for Johnston himself, who discovered that representation, even when given unknowingl