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!
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- 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. 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.
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 *
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. 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.
DISNEY CHANNEL INTRODUCED ITS FIRST GAY MALE COUPLE IN THE GRAVY FALLS SERI FALE!
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.
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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.
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 CHANNEL’S ANDI MACK DUBBED ‘GROUNDBREAKG’ AS FEATUR FIRST GAY TEEN UPLE FAL EPISO
"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.
"I suffered wh some level of my own ternalized homophobia even while playg the first openly gay character on Disney Channel. Garrett Clayton has appeared the DCOM Teen Beach Movie and the Disney show Shake It Up, before starrg the gay porn te crime movie Kg Cobra.
From characters wh one le, to characters who don't even have a name, and to others who were more of a joke than anythg else, Disney has really dropped the ball on a lot of LGBTQ+ were even reports earlier this year om Pixar employe that alleged that Disney rporate execs mand they cut "nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn... Not sce Will and Grace did a show have this big of an impact on mastream Amerin attus about gay people. " What we really got though was a cyclops p who's barely the movie and actually says the gay tchphrase " gets better" as one of her few l.
DISNEY TO AIR FIRST GAY COUPLE
Alex Hirsch, the show's creator, nfirmed the characters were gay off-screen, but for queer fans, two foolish ps beg nfirmed as gay on social media don't unt as good reprentatn. Ashman, who was gay, was the lyricist behd Disney classics like Aladd, Bety and the Beast, and The Ltle Mermaid. The Marvel Cematic Universe's first gay character was this unnamed man a support group talkg about gog on a date wh a man.
Tim Ferle's gay-AF seri about a group of drama kids featur so many queer actors and characters 's hard to unt! The show has an adorable gay uple Carlos and Seb, and s third season featur queer Gen Z in JoJo Siwa as a gut star! Another one of Disney's "first gay characters, " LeFou was played by Josh Gad and his sexualy was barely shown at all.
"Andi Mack" was the first seri on Disney Channel to feature a gay ma characterValkyrie, played by Tsa Thompson, appears two "Thor" films and two "Avengers" filmsWhen asked if Loki romanced would-be prcs or another prce, the god of mischief rpond wh, "A b of both"Is "Strange World" the first Disney movie that featur a gay character?