Disney’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Disaster Is Shameful and Absolutely Infuriatg

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• DISASTER GAY
• DISASTER GAY
• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER
• DISNEY’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ DISASTER IS SHAMEFUL AND ABSOLUTELY INFURIATG
• DISASTER GAY
• DISNEY’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ DISASTER IS SHAMEFUL AND ABSOLUTELY INFURIATGTHE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSEDWHAT’S A DISNEY GAY TO DO WHEN THEIR BELOVED PANY DONAT TO POLICIANS WHO BACK MONILLY HATEFUL LEGISLATN AND THEN REF TO APOLOGIZE FOR ? KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED AUG. 05, 2022 12:49PM EDT DAVID MCNEW/AFP/GETTYTHERE IS A PERSON WHO IS KNOWN AS THE DISNEY GAY—AS THE NAME SUGGTS, AN INTY OFFSHOOT OF THE MORE ALL-ENPASSG DISNEY ADULT. WH THE LGBTQ+ MUNY, N BE MON, IF CEL, TO MOCK THE DISNEY GAY FOR WHAT IS PERCEIVED AS A BASIC, CHILDISH, AND NORMIE OBSSN—AT LEAST WH A GROUP THAT IS STEREOTYPILLY SUPPOSED TO BE THE ARBER OF TASTE, OLNS, AND PROGRSIVE ART.HEAVENS, I WOULD NEVER LL MYSELF A DISNEY GAY.I MEAN, SURE, I WAS RAISED ON THE RENAISSANCE OF DISNEY ANIMATED MILS, AND STILL UNT THE DAYS TO THE RELEASE OF NEW FILMS AS IF THEY’RE MY VERSN OF A MARVEL MOVIE. DISNEY WORLD, FOR ALL THE WAYS THE CROWDS, L, AND PRICE GOUGG MAKE A SPECIAL HELL, IS LEGIMATELY A FUN PLACE TO VIS. IT WOULDN’T BE UNHEARD OF FOR A DISNEY SONG TO FD S WAY ONTO AN EVERYDAY MIC PLAYLIST OF ME, AND I N’T SAY THAT I’VE NOT TAKEN SEVERAL DISNEY-THEMED PELOTON CLASS. NEWSLETTERSTHE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSEDEVERYTHG WE N’T STOP LOVG, HATG, AND THKG ABOUT THIS WEEK POP CULTURE.SUBSCRIBEBY CLICKG "SUBSCRIBE" YOU AGREE TO HAVE READ THE TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY OH NO. NOT THIS. AM I… A DISNEY G… NO, I N’T FISH THAT SENTENCE. I WON’T. BUT WHILE I WA FOR MY THERAPIST TO RPOND TO A REQUT FOR AN EMERGENCY SSN, THIS IS ED A HEARTBREAKG AND ANGERG TIME TO BE A DISNEY FAN, PARTICULARLY IF YOU INTIFY AS LGBTQ+—DISNEY GAY OR OTHERWISE—OR, ANKLY, ARE A PERSON WH ANY CENT SENSE OF MORALY AND AWARENS FOR HOW A RPORATN’S DIABOLILLY CRASS TERTS WILL TMP HUMANY EVERY DAMN TIME. WHAT ARE THE FANS SUPPOSED TO MAKE OF THE EVENTS OF THE LAST WEEK, WHICH FLORIDA LAWMAKERS PASSED THE “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, LEGISLATN THAT IS BEG LLED “NTROVERSIAL” (A BETTER SCRIPTN MIGHT BE “HATEFUL” OR “DANGERO”) THAT WILL CENSOR TEACHERS AND STUNTS OM DISCSG OR ACKNOWLEDGG LGBTQ+ ISSU OR PEOPLE.IT QUICKLY ME OUT THAT DISNEY HAD DONATED TO EVERY SGLE POLICIAN WHO SUPPORTED THE BILL, WHICH WAS A SHOCK TO PEOPLE WHO MIGHT HAVE ASSUMED THE BIGOTED NATURE OF THE LEGISLATN, LET ALONE S UNJTIFIABLE PRETENSE, WOULD N NTRA TO THE VALU OF A PANY ASSOCIATED WH STORI ABOUT HAPPILY-EVER-AFTERS, EMBRACG WHAT MAK YOU SPECIAL, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF ACCEPTANCE WH FAI. HOW DO ONE SQUARE WHAT A PANY LIKE DISNEY’S OUTPUT HAS MEANT TO THEM AND THEIR LIV WH S SUPPORT OF VALU THAT ARE PLETELY AT ODDS WH WHAT YOU BELIEVE ? IT’S NOT A NEW NVERSATN. (WHAT’S UP, J.K. ROWLG?) BUT ’S STILL DIFFICULT EACH TIME WE’RE FORCED TO NONT .THERE WAS IMMEDIATE OUTRAGE, NOT ONLY OM DISNEY NSUMERS BUT OM EMPLOYE WH THE PANY. IT PROMPTED DISNEY CEO BOB CHAPEK TO PLEDGE HIS SUPPORT FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY, BUT ALSO MATA THAT THE PANY WAS STILL GOG TO NTUE TO DONATE MONEY TO THOSE POLICIANS. THE PANY ALSO OPTED NOT TO PUBLICLY NMN THE MEASURE BEE, AS CHAPEK WROTE A MEMO TO EMPLOYE, RPORATE STATEMENTS “DO VERY LTLE TO CHANGE OUT OR MDS” AND STEAD ARE “OFTEN WEAPONIZED BY ONE SI OR THE OTHER TO FURTHER DIVI AND FLAME.”BEYOND HAVG ALL THE APPARENT NVICTN AND URAGE OF PIGLET A WNIE THE POOH MOVIE, CHAPEK’S “BOTH SIS” MANIFTO WENT ON TO SAY THAT THE BIGGT IMPACT THE PANY ULD HAVE “ CREATG A MORE CLIVE WORLD” IS “THROUGH THE SPIRG NTENT WE PRODUCE.” HA! SIR! MY MAN! ARE YOU AWARE WHERE YOU WORK? IS DISNEY? TALKG ABOUT CLIVY THROUGH “THE SPIRG NTENT WE PRODUCE?” WELL, LET’S HAVE A HEARTY LGH OUT LOUD AT THAT.WOULD THAT BE THE NTENT THAT, TO THIS DAY, HAS NEVER FEATURED A LGBTQ+ CHARACTER A MAJOR THEATRIL FILM ROLE? THAT PATRONIZED THE GAY MUNY WH A TEASE ABOUT AN “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” BETY AND THE BEAST (ONE MAN SENTIALLY MATAS EYE NTACT WH ANOTHER MAN FOR SEVERAL SENDS), OR TOUTED A CHARACTER ONWARD WHO HAD ABOUT THREE L AS LGBTQ+ PROGRS?THE PANY’S DISNEY+ TV SERI HAVE BEEN REMARKABLY MORE CLIVE ON THAT ONT, AND THAT REALLY IS WONRFUL. BUT LET’S ALSO THK ABOUT HOW, THE WAKE OF CHAPEK’S FOOT--MOUTH TOUR, “HOW TO PROTECT OUR CORPORATE CONSERVATIV INTERTSPALOOZA,” A LETTER SIGNED OM PIXAR’S LGBTQ+ EMPLOYE ALLEGED THAT THE PANY’S EXECUTIV HAVE MAND CUTS OM “NEARLY EVERY MOMENT OF OVERTLY GAY AFFECTN… REGARDLS OF WHEN THERE IS PROTT OM BOTH THE CREATIVE TEAMS AND EXECUTIVE LEARSHIP AT PIXAR.”“WE AT PIXAR HAVE PERSONALLY WNSED BETIFUL STORI, FULL OF DIVERSE CHARACTERS, E BACK OM DISNEY RPORATE REVIEWS SHAVED DOWN TO CMBS OF WHAT THEY ONCE WERE,” THE LETTER SAYS, ACRDG TO VARIETY. “EVEN IF CREATG LGBTQIA+ NTENT WAS THE ANSWER TO FIXG THE DISCRIMATORY LEGISLATN THE WORLD, WE ARE BEG BARRED OM CREATG .” “WOULD THAT BE THE NTENT THAT, TO THIS DAY, HAS NEVER FEATURED A LGBTQ+ CHARACTER A MAJOR THEATRIL FILM ROLE? ” INSPIRG, CLIVE STUFF! AND IS HAVG AN IMPACT—THE SAME IMPACT THAT THIS BILL IS TEND TO HAVE: TO NTUE TO OTHER AND OSTRACIZE THOSE WHO INTIFY AS LGBTQ+ AND THEIR FAI, AND NTUE THE TRADN OF SHAME, SELF-HARM, AND SOCIETAL HATRED THAT BEE WE NTUE TO VALIDATE THE PEOPLE’S RIGHT TO EXIST.IT’S NO SECRET THAT DISNEY HAS A LEGN OF PASSNATE GAY FANS, JT AS ALSO HAS A REPUTATN FOR BEG A LARGE AND WELE EMPLOYER OF MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. THEY SELL PRI MERCHANDISE AND HOST GAY DAYS AND PRI EVENTS (THOUGH THERE’S A B OF UGLS ASSOCIATED WH THAT, EVEN.) BUT WHAT DO ANY OF THAT MEAN WHEN, AS THE OPPORTUNY ARIS TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE—FANS AND EMPLOYE ALIKE—FANCIALS RANK ABOVE SAFETY? THE BOTTOM LE OVER THE RIGHT THG?IT SEEMS SILLY TO SGLE OUT ONE PARTICULAR MOGRAPHIC’S AFFY FOR DISNEY, GIVEN THE FIERCE NOSTALGIC FONDNS MOST ADULTS HAVE FOR WISECRACKG NDLTICKS, SGG CSTACEANS, AND LN CUBS GROWG UP TO BE MIGHTY KGS.BUT FOR A MUNY WHOSE CHILDHOODS ARE SO OFTEN FED BY BEG “A FUNNY GIRL… DIFFERENT OM THE RT OF ” AND WONRG “WHEN WILL MY REFLECTN SHOW WHO I AM SI?”, THE MSAGG, THE WHIMSIL PE, AND, FOR THE LOVE OF MNIE, THE MP OF ALL MA THE HOE OF MOE A SAFE SPACE.FOR ALL THE ERSTWHILE GAYNS OF THE ANIMATED MILS, THEY’RE EQUALLY PROBLEMATIC. GAY PANIC, STEREOTYP, CLOSETG, AND EQUATG HOMOSEXUALY WH PERVERSN PERVAS THE FILMS JT AS MUCH AS ANY CELEBRATN OF OTHERNS OR FLAMBOYANCE. MULAN MAY BE REJECTG SOCIETAL EXPECTATNS AND EXERCISG HER EEDOM TO MARRY WHOMEVER SHE LOV, BUT TRY TO WATCH THE EFFEMATE YOUNG POCCH’S ETTG OVER NOT KNOWG HOW TO ACT LIKE “A REAL BOY” THROUGH THE PRISM OF QUEER ANXIETY.BELIEVG FIERCELY THE MEANGFULNS OF THE POSIVE MSAGG ALSO MEANS BELIEVG PROGRS AND EVOLUTN—CHANGE THAT STILL HASN’T E. IN FACT, THE OPPOSE HAS HAPPENED. WH THIS FLORIDA BILL AND DISNEY’S VOLVEMENT, WE’RE ROLLG BACK THE CLOCK. DISNEY WHEN YOU GROW UP GAY, OR WONRG IF YOU MIGHT BE GAY, YOU SEARCH FOR YOURSELF ANY WAY YOU N POP CULTURE STAPL THAT BEE TEGRAL PARTS OF YOUR CHILDHOOD. IT’S NOT JT GAY PEOPLE WHO DO THIS. WE ALL DO; ’S JT HARR FOR SOME OF TO SEE OURSELV.WE SEE OURSELV THE OUTSTS; THOSE WHO ARE DIFFERENT. DUMBO, WH HIS BIG EARS, OR POCCH, WHO DON’T SHARE THE SAME HUMAN MAKP AS THE RT OF THE KIDS, PHYSILLY MANIFT THE OTHERNS WE FEEL SI. WE EMPATHIZE WH PETER PAN’S SIRE TO STAY NEVERLAND AND MOWGLI’S HANCE TO LEAVE THE JUNGLE. IT’S WHERE THEY FEEL SAFE AND ACCEPTED. WHO KNOWS HOW THEIR UNIQUENS WOULD BE TREATED THE REAL WORLD?AND WOULDN’T BE NICE TO SEE OURSELV WHOUT UNRCURRENTS OF SHAME?AS PART OF THE DAMAGE NTROL PLAN THIS WEEK, CHAPEK ANNOUNCED A $5 LN DONATN TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN—WHICH THEY PROMPTLY REJECTED.“BS HAVE HAD AND NTUE TO HAVE A MAJOR IMPACT THE FIGHT FOR LGBTQ+ RIGHTS, OM MARRIAGE EQUALY TO THE FEAT OF HOE BILL 2 NORTH CAROLA AND BEYOND,” HRC PRINT JONI MADISON SAID. “WHILE DISNEY TOOK A REGRETTABLE STANCE BY CHOOSG TO STAY SILENT AMID POLIL ATTACKS AGAST LGBTQ+ FAI FLORIDA—CLUDG HARDWORKG FAI EMPLOYED BY DISNEY—TODAY THEY TOOK A STEP THE RIGHT DIRECTN. BUT WAS MERELY THE FIRST STEP.”I DON’T PRUME TO KNOW OR DICTATE HOW A DISNEY GAY, OR ANYONE, SHOULD FEEL ABOUT THEIR PASSN FOR DISNEY THE WAKE OF ALL THIS. BUT I DO KNOW ONE THG: IT’S BEEN SO LONG ALREADY. WE’RE TIRED OF ALL THE BACK-AND-FORTH. KEV FALLON

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CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

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© 2022 Farlex, Inc, all rights also:disaster gaydisaster lbianAcAC/DCAC-DCDCI know that feelom goo to you, by way of the zoogooLOLt. Cred: Mar Tama Getty ImagThe Feral Emergency Management Agency warned yterday that mori; sgle parents; and lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people are “more likely than others to be severely impacted by disasters” and may need extra help.

It’s the first time that the preparedns report, published annually sce 2012, ed the words “lbian, ” “gay, ” “bisexual” and “transgenr.

DISNEY’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ DISASTER IS SHAMEFUL AND ABSOLUTELY INFURIATG

“Age, fancial secury, pregnancy, and intifitn wh a historilly disadvantaged group—cludg mori and the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer (LGBTQ+) muny—are all factors that n crease vulnerabily. When FEMA Admistrator Peter Gaynor was prsed at a recent ngrsnal hearg about excludg climate change om the 2019 preparedns report, he said the report did not mentn any specific hazard and was “more of a thought piece about what was important to the natn. An entreprenr lnched a nned cktail this week lled “Gay Water” that’s aimed at LGBTQ drkers — and said he’s lookg to palize on Bud Light’s mistak.

But “Gay Water” — which adopts a moniker the gay muny has long given to the simple vodka and soda cktail — has been spired by the dtup to bee even bolr about the dience ’s targetg, founr and CEO Spencer Hodson told The Post. Gay Water — a nned cktail brand that plays on the gay muny’s lloquialism for the vodka-and-soda mixed drk — lnched on Wednday and promis to unrstand s dience better than Bud Light.

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The 30-year-old Hodson said he is g suggtive — albe playful — msagg and imagery Gay Water’s social media and webse, cludg a provotive nod to the 12-ounce n’s 6. “Our missn is to -stigmatize the word ‘gay’ and start to create reprentatn spac that tradnally don’t have queer-owned products, let alone products wh the word ‘gay’ their tle, ” Hodson told The Post.

“When was the last time you saw the word gay at a rtrant, bar, liquor store, or grocery store? The word ‘gay’ origally was fed as happy, and we’re hopg to remd folks of that by beg prent, ” he add.

DISNEY’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ DISASTER IS SHAMEFUL AND ABSOLUTELY INFURIATGTHE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSEDWHAT’S A DISNEY GAY TO DO WHEN THEIR BELOVED PANY DONAT TO POLICIANS WHO BACK MONILLY HATEFUL LEGISLATN AND THEN REF TO APOLOGIZE FOR ? KEV FALLONSENR EDOR, OBSSEDUPDATED AUG. 05, 2022 12:49PM EDT DAVID MCNEW/AFP/GETTYTHERE IS A PERSON WHO IS KNOWN AS THE DISNEY GAY—AS THE NAME SUGGTS, AN INTY OFFSHOOT OF THE MORE ALL-ENPASSG DISNEY ADULT. WH THE LGBTQ+ MUNY, N BE MON, IF CEL, TO MOCK THE DISNEY GAY FOR WHAT IS PERCEIVED AS A BASIC, CHILDISH, AND NORMIE OBSSN—AT LEAST WH A GROUP THAT IS STEREOTYPILLY SUPPOSED TO BE THE ARBER OF TASTE, OLNS, AND PROGRSIVE ART.HEAVENS, I WOULD NEVER LL MYSELF A DISNEY GAY.I MEAN, SURE, I WAS RAISED ON THE RENAISSANCE OF DISNEY ANIMATED MILS, AND STILL UNT THE DAYS TO THE RELEASE OF NEW FILMS AS IF THEY’RE MY VERSN OF A MARVEL MOVIE. DISNEY WORLD, FOR ALL THE WAYS THE CROWDS, L, AND PRICE GOUGG MAKE A SPECIAL HELL, IS LEGIMATELY A FUN PLACE TO VIS. IT WOULDN’T BE UNHEARD OF FOR A DISNEY SONG TO FD S WAY ONTO AN EVERYDAY MIC PLAYLIST OF ME, AND I N’T SAY THAT I’VE NOT TAKEN SEVERAL DISNEY-THEMED PELOTON CLASS. NEWSLETTERSTHE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSEDEVERYTHG WE N’T STOP LOVG, HATG, AND THKG ABOUT THIS WEEK POP CULTURE.SUBSCRIBEBY CLICKG "SUBSCRIBE" YOU AGREE TO HAVE READ THE TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY OH NO. NOT THIS. AM I… A DISNEY G… NO, I N’T FISH THAT SENTENCE. I WON’T. BUT WHILE I WA FOR MY THERAPIST TO RPOND TO A REQUT FOR AN EMERGENCY SSN, THIS IS ED A HEARTBREAKG AND ANGERG TIME TO BE A DISNEY FAN, PARTICULARLY IF YOU INTIFY AS LGBTQ+—DISNEY GAY OR OTHERWISE—OR, ANKLY, ARE A PERSON WH ANY CENT SENSE OF MORALY AND AWARENS FOR HOW A RPORATN’S DIABOLILLY CRASS TERTS WILL TMP HUMANY EVERY DAMN TIME. WHAT ARE THE FANS SUPPOSED TO MAKE OF THE EVENTS OF THE LAST WEEK, WHICH FLORIDA LAWMAKERS PASSED THE “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, LEGISLATN THAT IS BEG LLED “NTROVERSIAL” (A BETTER SCRIPTN MIGHT BE “HATEFUL” OR “DANGERO”) THAT WILL CENSOR TEACHERS AND STUNTS OM DISCSG OR ACKNOWLEDGG LGBTQ+ ISSU OR PEOPLE.IT QUICKLY ME OUT THAT DISNEY HAD DONATED TO EVERY SGLE POLICIAN WHO SUPPORTED THE BILL, WHICH WAS A SHOCK TO PEOPLE WHO MIGHT HAVE ASSUMED THE BIGOTED NATURE OF THE LEGISLATN, LET ALONE S UNJTIFIABLE PRETENSE, WOULD N NTRA TO THE VALU OF A PANY ASSOCIATED WH STORI ABOUT HAPPILY-EVER-AFTERS, EMBRACG WHAT MAK YOU SPECIAL, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF ACCEPTANCE WH FAI. HOW DO ONE SQUARE WHAT A PANY LIKE DISNEY’S OUTPUT HAS MEANT TO THEM AND THEIR LIV WH S SUPPORT OF VALU THAT ARE PLETELY AT ODDS WH WHAT YOU BELIEVE ? IT’S NOT A NEW NVERSATN. (WHAT’S UP, J.K. ROWLG?) BUT ’S STILL DIFFICULT EACH TIME WE’RE FORCED TO NONT .THERE WAS IMMEDIATE OUTRAGE, NOT ONLY OM DISNEY NSUMERS BUT OM EMPLOYE WH THE PANY. IT PROMPTED DISNEY CEO BOB CHAPEK TO PLEDGE HIS SUPPORT FOR THE LGBTQ+ MUNY, BUT ALSO MATA THAT THE PANY WAS STILL GOG TO NTUE TO DONATE MONEY TO THOSE POLICIANS. THE PANY ALSO OPTED NOT TO PUBLICLY NMN THE MEASURE BEE, AS CHAPEK WROTE A MEMO TO EMPLOYE, RPORATE STATEMENTS “DO VERY LTLE TO CHANGE OUT OR MDS” AND STEAD ARE “OFTEN WEAPONIZED BY ONE SI OR THE OTHER TO FURTHER DIVI AND FLAME.”BEYOND HAVG ALL THE APPARENT NVICTN AND URAGE OF PIGLET A WNIE THE POOH MOVIE, CHAPEK’S “BOTH SIS” MANIFTO WENT ON TO SAY THAT THE BIGGT IMPACT THE PANY ULD HAVE “ CREATG A MORE CLIVE WORLD” IS “THROUGH THE SPIRG NTENT WE PRODUCE.” HA! SIR! MY MAN! ARE YOU AWARE WHERE YOU WORK? IS DISNEY? TALKG ABOUT CLIVY THROUGH “THE SPIRG NTENT WE PRODUCE?” WELL, LET’S HAVE A HEARTY LGH OUT LOUD AT THAT.WOULD THAT BE THE NTENT THAT, TO THIS DAY, HAS NEVER FEATURED A LGBTQ+ CHARACTER A MAJOR THEATRIL FILM ROLE? THAT PATRONIZED THE GAY MUNY WH A TEASE ABOUT AN “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” BETY AND THE BEAST (ONE MAN SENTIALLY MATAS EYE NTACT WH ANOTHER MAN FOR SEVERAL SENDS), OR TOUTED A CHARACTER ONWARD WHO HAD ABOUT THREE L AS LGBTQ+ PROGRS?THE PANY’S DISNEY+ TV SERI HAVE BEEN REMARKABLY MORE CLIVE ON THAT ONT, AND THAT REALLY IS WONRFUL. BUT LET’S ALSO THK ABOUT HOW, THE WAKE OF CHAPEK’S FOOT--MOUTH TOUR, “HOW TO PROTECT OUR CORPORATE CONSERVATIV INTERTSPALOOZA,” A LETTER SIGNED OM PIXAR’S LGBTQ+ EMPLOYE ALLEGED THAT THE PANY’S EXECUTIV HAVE MAND CUTS OM “NEARLY EVERY MOMENT OF OVERTLY GAY AFFECTN… REGARDLS OF WHEN THERE IS PROTT OM BOTH THE CREATIVE TEAMS AND EXECUTIVE LEARSHIP AT PIXAR.”“WE AT PIXAR HAVE PERSONALLY WNSED BETIFUL STORI, FULL OF DIVERSE CHARACTERS, E BACK OM DISNEY RPORATE REVIEWS SHAVED DOWN TO CMBS OF WHAT THEY ONCE WERE,” THE LETTER SAYS, ACRDG TO VARIETY. “EVEN IF CREATG LGBTQIA+ NTENT WAS THE ANSWER TO FIXG THE DISCRIMATORY LEGISLATN THE WORLD, WE ARE BEG BARRED OM CREATG .” “WOULD THAT BE THE NTENT THAT, TO THIS DAY, HAS NEVER FEATURED A LGBTQ+ CHARACTER A MAJOR THEATRIL FILM ROLE? ” INSPIRG, CLIVE STUFF! AND IS HAVG AN IMPACT—THE SAME IMPACT THAT THIS BILL IS TEND TO HAVE: TO NTUE TO OTHER AND OSTRACIZE THOSE WHO INTIFY AS LGBTQ+ AND THEIR FAI, AND NTUE THE TRADN OF SHAME, SELF-HARM, AND SOCIETAL HATRED THAT BEE WE NTUE TO VALIDATE THE PEOPLE’S RIGHT TO EXIST.IT’S NO SECRET THAT DISNEY HAS A LEGN OF PASSNATE GAY FANS, JT AS ALSO HAS A REPUTATN FOR BEG A LARGE AND WELE EMPLOYER OF MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY. THEY SELL PRI MERCHANDISE AND HOST GAY DAYS AND PRI EVENTS (THOUGH THERE’S A B OF UGLS ASSOCIATED WH THAT, EVEN.) BUT WHAT DO ANY OF THAT MEAN WHEN, AS THE OPPORTUNY ARIS TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE—FANS AND EMPLOYE ALIKE—FANCIALS RANK ABOVE SAFETY? THE BOTTOM LE OVER THE RIGHT THG?IT SEEMS SILLY TO SGLE OUT ONE PARTICULAR MOGRAPHIC’S AFFY FOR DISNEY, GIVEN THE FIERCE NOSTALGIC FONDNS MOST ADULTS HAVE FOR WISECRACKG NDLTICKS, SGG CSTACEANS, AND LN CUBS GROWG UP TO BE MIGHTY KGS.BUT FOR A MUNY WHOSE CHILDHOODS ARE SO OFTEN FED BY BEG “A FUNNY GIRL… DIFFERENT OM THE RT OF ” AND WONRG “WHEN WILL MY REFLECTN SHOW WHO I AM SI?”, THE MSAGG, THE WHIMSIL PE, AND, FOR THE LOVE OF MNIE, THE MP OF ALL MA THE HOE OF MOE A SAFE SPACE.FOR ALL THE ERSTWHILE GAYNS OF THE ANIMATED MILS, THEY’RE EQUALLY PROBLEMATIC. GAY PANIC, STEREOTYP, CLOSETG, AND EQUATG HOMOSEXUALY WH PERVERSN PERVAS THE FILMS JT AS MUCH AS ANY CELEBRATN OF OTHERNS OR FLAMBOYANCE. MULAN MAY BE REJECTG SOCIETAL EXPECTATNS AND EXERCISG HER EEDOM TO MARRY WHOMEVER SHE LOV, BUT TRY TO WATCH THE EFFEMATE YOUNG POCCH’S ETTG OVER NOT KNOWG HOW TO ACT LIKE “A REAL BOY” THROUGH THE PRISM OF QUEER ANXIETY.BELIEVG FIERCELY THE MEANGFULNS OF THE POSIVE MSAGG ALSO MEANS BELIEVG PROGRS AND EVOLUTN—CHANGE THAT STILL HASN’T E. IN FACT, THE OPPOSE HAS HAPPENED. WH THIS FLORIDA BILL AND DISNEY’S VOLVEMENT, WE’RE ROLLG BACK THE CLOCK. DISNEY WHEN YOU GROW UP GAY, OR WONRG IF YOU MIGHT BE GAY, YOU SEARCH FOR YOURSELF ANY WAY YOU N POP CULTURE STAPL THAT BEE TEGRAL PARTS OF YOUR CHILDHOOD. IT’S NOT JT GAY PEOPLE WHO DO THIS. WE ALL DO; ’S JT HARR FOR SOME OF TO SEE OURSELV.WE SEE OURSELV THE OUTSTS; THOSE WHO ARE DIFFERENT. DUMBO, WH HIS BIG EARS, OR POCCH, WHO DON’T SHARE THE SAME HUMAN MAKP AS THE RT OF THE KIDS, PHYSILLY MANIFT THE OTHERNS WE FEEL SI. WE EMPATHIZE WH PETER PAN’S SIRE TO STAY NEVERLAND AND MOWGLI’S HANCE TO LEAVE THE JUNGLE. IT’S WHERE THEY FEEL SAFE AND ACCEPTED. WHO KNOWS HOW THEIR UNIQUENS WOULD BE TREATED THE REAL WORLD?AND WOULDN’T BE NICE TO SEE OURSELV WHOUT UNRCURRENTS OF SHAME?AS PART OF THE DAMAGE NTROL PLAN THIS WEEK, CHAPEK ANNOUNCED A $5 LN DONATN TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN—WHICH THEY PROMPTLY REJECTED.“BS HAVE HAD AND NTUE TO HAVE A MAJOR IMPACT THE FIGHT FOR LGBTQ+ RIGHTS, OM MARRIAGE EQUALY TO THE FEAT OF HOE BILL 2 NORTH CAROLA AND BEYOND,” HRC PRINT JONI MADISON SAID. “WHILE DISNEY TOOK A REGRETTABLE STANCE BY CHOOSG TO STAY SILENT AMID POLIL ATTACKS AGAST LGBTQ+ FAI FLORIDA—CLUDG HARDWORKG FAI EMPLOYED BY DISNEY—TODAY THEY TOOK A STEP THE RIGHT DIRECTN. BUT WAS MERELY THE FIRST STEP.”I DON’T PRUME TO KNOW OR DICTATE HOW A DISNEY GAY, OR ANYONE, SHOULD FEEL ABOUT THEIR PASSN FOR DISNEY THE WAKE OF ALL THIS. BUT I DO KNOW ONE THG: IT’S BEEN SO LONG ALREADY. WE’RE TIRED OF ALL THE BACK-AND-FORTH. KEV FALLON

Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy.

Gay Water’s brandg is full of playful, suggtive msagg.

“Part of the pot of lnchg outsi of Pri month is to rerce the msage that Gay Water is here to make the LGBTQ+ muny more visible 365 days a year, not jt a sgle month, ” he said. David McNew/AFP/GettyThere is a person who is known as the Disney Gay—as the name suggts, an inty offshoot of the more all-enpassg Disney Adult.