Bob Chapek mentned Disney creatg "spirg" queer ntent when addrsg the pany’s supposed support of the ntroversial "Don’t Say Gay" bill. Here are all Disney’s official gay moments om movi and TV seri.
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- DISNEY CHANNEL TRODUC S FIRST-EVER GAY UPLE
- DISNEY CHANNEL INTRODUC NETWORK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE
- DISNEY CHANNEL INTRODUCED ITS FIRST GAY MALE COUPLE IN THE GRAVY FALLS SERI FALE!
- 'AWKWARD.' ACTRS DI LYDIC IS HALF OF DISNEY CHANNEL'S FIRST GAY COUPLE [VIO]{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}TVBY KRISTA LURELLIJANUARY 29, 2014/11:10 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}BY KRISTA LURELLIJANUARY 29, 2014 / 11:10 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"'AWKWARD.' ACTRS DI LYDIC IS HALF OF DISNEY CHANNEL'S FIRST GAY COUPLE [VIO]","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2014-01-29T16:10:45.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2014-01-29T16:10:45.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"KRISTA LURELLI","KEYWORDS":"MTV SHOWS","ARTICLESECTN":"TV"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TURNS OUT, WHEN DI LYDIC ISN'T DOLG OUT QUTNABLE ADVICE AS PALOS HILLS HIGH SCHOOL'S RECENTLY RESTATED GUIDANCE UNSELOR, VAL MARKS, THE "AWKWARD" ACTRS IS MAKG TELEVISN HISTORY! LYDIC HAD A STT ON THE LATT EPISO OF DISNEY CHANNEL'S "GOOD LUCK CHARLIE," WHICH SHE PLAYED CHARLIE'S IEND'S MOM, SAN, WHO JT SO HAPPENED TO BE ONE HALF OF THE WORK'S VERY FIRST TELEVISED SAME-SEX UPLE. WELL DONE, DI!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DISNEY FIRST TOLD TV GUI ABOUT PLANS TO CLU A GAY UPLE THE SHOW BACK JUNE, NOTG THE TEND STORYLE WAS "VELOPED TO BE RELEVANT TO KIDS AND FAI AROUND THE WORLD AND TO REFLECT THEM OF DIVERSY AND CLIVENS." IN THE CLIP OM THE EPISO BELOW, WHICH FALLY AIRED ON SUNDAY, CHARLIE'S PARENTS, BOB AND AMY, ARE PREPARG FOR CHARLIE'S PLAY DATE WH HER IEND, TAYLOR. BOTH PARENTS CLAIM TO HAVE MET TAYLOR'S MOTHER, BUT BOB THKS HER NAME IS CHERYL WHILE AMY'S NVCED 'S SAN. WHEN THE FAY ARRIV, TURNS OUT THE JOKE'S ON BOB AND AMY WHEN THEY REALIZE THAT TAYLOR HAS TWO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MANY HAVE PRAISED DISNEY'S RPORATN OF THE UPLE, CLUDG ONE OF THE CHANNEL'S MOST FAMO FORMER STARS, MILEY CYS. "I MEND DISNEY FOR MAKG THIS STEP TO THE LIGHT OF THIS GENERATN," THE POP SGER TWEETED WHEN NEWS OF THE EPISO FIRST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}+ TAKE A LOOK AT THE VIO, AND LET KNOW WHAT YOU THK OF DI'S PART DISNEY'S BIG MOVE!{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}MTV {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
- DISNEY CHANNEL’S ANDI MACK DUBBED ‘GROUNDBREAKG’ AS FEATUR FIRST GAY TEEN UPLE FAL EPISO
- DISNEY TO AIR FIRST GAY COUPLE
DISNEY CHANNEL TRODUC S FIRST-EVER GAY UPLE
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Updated on June 7th, 2022 by Danielle Bnti: In the wake of Florida's extremely ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill and the strong cricism that me om wh The Walt Disney Company for not speakg up, seems like Disney is fally unrstandg out important LGBTQ+ reprentatn is for s fans and s st members. While the word "gay" never is spoken Better Nate Than Ever, the notn that Nate is gay is hted at relentlsly.
Artie Cella is an openly gay character who teracts wh the ma character throughout the new movie that foc on Cella Vil om 101 Dalmatians. Artie is able to be his thentic self and actor John McCrea is happy wh his portrayal of Artie and believ him to be a gay character, but Disney yet aga ma the mistake of not fully lvg to Artie beg an openly gay character.
Orka and Flix Star Wars Ristance are two openly gay characters who aren't human and are actually two different speci but are openly a relatnship the seri.
DISNEY CHANNEL INTRODUC NETWORK’S FIRST GAY COUPLE
Disney Channel mak history wh first gay teen uple Andi Mack (TJ and Cys) as stars praise 'groundbreakg' show. * disney channel gay couple *
Jungle Cise hasn't technilly been released yet, but Disney has been clear that one of the major characters the movie, McGregor Houghton, will be gay. Certa groups are upset at the ia of a children's movie reprentg the LGBTQ+ muny while progrsiv are upset at Jack Whehall's stg, believg a gay actor should be st, and the ia that might be a stereotypil, harmful reprentatn. Viewers may not remember the gay prce om The Prcs Diari 2, and maybe that's bee the movie don't actually show him person.
In early 2017, Disney XD progrsed even more wh portrayals of gay love wh the rtoon Star Vs.
Before the live-actn versn of Bety and the Beast me out 2017, director Bill Condon announced an terview that one character would have a gay sp. LeFou, Gaston's right-hand man, would be gay, the director said, g excement and anticipatn om the LGBTQ+ muny.
DISNEY CHANNEL INTRODUCED ITS FIRST GAY MALE COUPLE IN THE GRAVY FALLS SERI FALE!
Cys Goodman om Andi Mack was Disney's first character to ever utter the words, "I'm gay, " 2019. The show's creator and executive producer Terri Msky said that Cys and his story were largely spired by Terri's dghter's iends, who knew that they were gay middle school.
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Pixar jt released a new short, aptly tled Out, that foc on a young man named Greg who has a secret: he's gay, and he has a boyiend named Manuel. When news outlets reported that The Walt Disney Company donated money to legislators who supported Florida’s ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Disney CEO Bob Chapek sent an ternal memo to the pany sayg Disney would still “unequivolly” support s LGBTQ employe.
In 2017, director Bill Condon, who is gay himself, told Attu Magaze that his versn of Bety and the Beast, Gaston’s henchman LeFou (Josh Gad) would have a csh on Gaston (Le Evans). Two years after g out, Cys also beme the first Disney character to say the words “I’m gay” out loud, when Cys sually told another iend about his sexualy. “It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them.
DISNEY CHANNEL’S ANDI MACK DUBBED ‘GROUNDBREAKG’ AS FEATUR FIRST GAY TEEN UPLE FAL EPISO
Out om director Steven Clay Hunter, who wanted to make a film about his own experienc as a gay man. Vtage-store owner Artie do not mentn his sexualy Cella, but John McCrea, the openly gay actor who plays him, says he read the character as queer and portrayed him as such.
DISNEY TO AIR FIRST GAY COUPLE
"The vio was to reprent the young woman today -- 's not the tradnal woman anymore -- and not the specifics of 'Am I gay? Rodriguez plays gay high school stunt, choreographer, assistant director, and actor Carlos Disney+'s High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri. Andi Mack's Joshua Rh played the first-ever Disney Channel character to say "I'm gay" on the work.