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• DISNEY CHANNEL FEATUR S FIRST GAY UPLE ON 'GOOD LUCK CHARLIE'
• DISNEY'S GOOD LUCK CHARLIE BOYTTED OVER GAY MOMS STORYLE
• GAY COUPLE FEATURED ON DISNEY CHANNEL'S 'GOOD LUCK CHARLIE'; LBIAN MOMS ON KID'S TV SHOW SPARKS CONTROVERSY
• ONE MILLN MOMS LOST THEIR MDS WH THE GAY COUPLE ON ‘GOOD LUCK CHARLIE’
• KIDS ARE FORTABLE WH DIVERSY. GIVE A GAY PRCS ALREADY.
• MILEY CYS, EVAN RACHEL WOOD PRAISE DISNEY CHANNEL FOR ADDG FIRST GAY CHARACTERS
• DISNEY CHANNEL TRODUC FIRST GAY CHARACTERS FAY S GOOD LUCK CHARLIE

DISNEY CHANNEL FEATUR S FIRST GAY UPLE ON 'GOOD LUCK CHARLIE'

The penultimate episo of the show's fourth and fal season also reportedly centered on Bridget Mendler's character Teddy and her bt iend Ivy as Ivy prepared to head to there are certaly a number of both gay and lbian upl featured on TV today, the kiddie channel took extra re before cidg to troduce the very first same sex uple on the work.

” And while the anti-gay group One Milln Moms was predictably up arms about the episo — “Jt bee somethg may be legal or bee some are choosg a liftyle don’t make morally rrect, ” the group wrote an anti-Charlie letter June — others have ld Disney for s forward thkg, cludg Miley Cys: Good Luck Charlie airs s next — and fal — episo on Feb.

Good Luck Charlie is beg boytted by parent anizatn One Milln Moms, due to an episo featurg gay parents.

DISNEY'S GOOD LUCK CHARLIE BOYTTED OVER GAY MOMS STORYLE

| (Photo: Disney Channel Screenshot)In the most recent episo of "Good Luck Charlie, " which has played on the work sce 2010, parents Bob (Eric Allen Kramer) and Amy (Leigh Allyn Baker) briefly argue about what the name of the mom of their dghter's iend is, while wag for the girl and her parents to vis their home for a when Amy opens the door, she and her hband disver that they were both right bee "Taylor has two moms, " as Bob first ma s announcement through gay activist group, the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD), which stated on s webse that the anizatn had been "nsulted on the script for the Disney Channel's episo of 'Good Luck Charlie' which a character's two moms are troduced.

"Conservative advocy anizatn One Milln Moms has argued that "media fluenc children tremendoly, " and has cricized Disney's cisn to feature a gay uple on the children's TV show. "There are children wh gay or lbian parents their school, worshippg church, workg on the job, or servg the ary, so this televisn show isn't really that different than what kids enunter on a day-to-day basis, " he claimed. This clus homosexualy (1 Tim 1:10 and Romans 1:18-32, for stance).

And other non-sexual ss are nmned practilly the same language, even though they are not “pounced upon” as quickly by today’s “Christians” as homosexualy. For stance, slanr and gossip are the same sectn of Romans 1 as homosexualy and murr. All I’m tryg to do here is expla to you where a Christian is g om pecially terms of how homosexualy is nsired missg the mark while not eatg shellfish is not.

GAY COUPLE FEATURED ON DISNEY CHANNEL'S 'GOOD LUCK CHARLIE'; LBIAN MOMS ON KID'S TV SHOW SPARKS CONTROVERSY

So if someone says homosexualy is wrong acrdg to God’s law while havg an affair, don’t make homosexualy right.

Conservative Christians are outraged after the Disney Channel ma te on s promise to feature s first openly gay lbian moms, San and Cheryl, paid a vis to the Dunn fay hoehold for the Jan.

But the gay uple did manage to set off a ltle nfn. On the other si of thgs, creasgly vol homophobic and transphobic hate movements have attacked Disney for cludg any LGBTQ+ reprentatn at all (per CNN). Long before announcements about "Disney's first gay character" beme somethg of a meme, the first direct reference to a gay person a Disney movie om a somewhat surprisg source: "The Prcs Diari 2: Royal Engagement" 2004.

ONE MILLN MOMS LOST THEIR MDS WH THE GAY COUPLE ON ‘GOOD LUCK CHARLIE’

" Rpons to the episo at the time were posive among the LGBTQ+ muny, wh GLAAD and queer former Disney star Miley Cys celebratg, while the far-right anti-gay group One Milln Moms protted the episo. The 2017 live-actn remake of "Bety and the Beast" arrived wh signifint prs verage about featurg an "exclively gay" moment volvg Gaston's sikick LeFou, played by Josh Gad.

KIDS ARE FORTABLE WH DIVERSY. GIVE A GAY PRCS ALREADY.

Even this fairly mor gay reprentatn, however, was enough for the blockbter remake to be pulled om theaters Alabama and temporarily banned Malaysia. Disney Channel had briefly featured gay romanc before, but wasn't until 2019 when Cys Goodman (played by bisexual actor Joshua Rh) on "Andi Mack" beme the first Disney Channel character to say the words "I'm gay.

MILEY CYS, EVAN RACHEL WOOD PRAISE DISNEY CHANNEL FOR ADDG FIRST GAY CHARACTERS

Cys first out to his iends Buffy and Andi the show's send season, while the history-makg "I'm gay" le occurs the episo "One a Myan" om the seri' third and fal season.

As such, Marvel Studs' first actual on-screen acknowledgement that gay people exist me the form of an unnamed character 2019's "Avengers: Endgame. A PkNews headle went so far as to say, "Avengers: Endgame's gay character reveal is sultg, not progrsive. " Unnamed, non-speakg gay background characters alone, however, wouldn't qualify the show for this list — and while many queer viewers celebrated the genr nonnformy of male prcs Mar Diaz, Mar himself was never nfirmed to be queer.

Instead, offers one of the most signifint gay romanc a Disney seri. "High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri" featur two major gay characters who enter a relatnship wh each other: The choreographer Carlos Rodriguez (Frankie Rodriguez) and the actor Seb Matthew-Smh (Joe Serafi).

DISNEY CHANNEL TRODUC FIRST GAY CHARACTERS FAY S GOOD LUCK CHARLIE

Though he ially dat girls, Bobby realiz he has a csh on his classmate Liam (Brandon Severs) and out as gay. Liam is straight and don't reciprote his feelgs, but Bobby do strike up a relatnship wh a gay classmate, CJ (Donov Miller), before the end of the seri.

Officer Specter, a cyclops p voiced by Lena Wahe the 2020 film "Onward, " is the first gay character wh a speakg role a Pixar movie ("Fdg Dory" and "Toy Story 4" prevly clud same-sex upl as background extras). Followg "Avengers: Endgame" and "Star Wars: Episo IX — The Rise of Skywalker, " many LGBTQ+ viewers were creasgly cril of Disney's assorted "first gay characters" om s var studs beg hyped up, only to turn out beg so mor that all the reprentatn uld be easily censored jt by changg one le. This rults some wacky edy and ultimately a realizatn that Greg's parents already know and accept that he's gay.

Up until this pot on our list, most of the gay Disney characters promoted as the "first" of their kd uld still be clearly labeled as a specific "first" (first Disney character, first Marvel character, first "Star Wars character, " etc. When "Cella, " a live-actn reimagg of the villa om "101 Dalmatians" as an antihero, was released 2021, there were headl that the fashn signer character Artie might be Disney's "first major gay character.