Here's A Look At The Gay Dad's On 'The Proud Fay' Reboot - Gayety

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• DISNEY PL ANNOUNC 'THE PROUD FAY' REBOOT WILL FEATURE GAY DADS
• ‘NOT-AT-ALL-SECRET GAY AGENDA’: DISNEY EMPLOYE BREAK DOWN ‘ADDG QUEERNS’ TO CHILDREN’S SHOW, DEGENRIZG THEME PARKS
• DISNEY EXEC PS TO ADVANCG ‘GAY AGENDA’ BY ‘ADDG QUEERNS’ TO SHOWS
• DISNEY’S ‘THE PROUD FAY’ GETTG WOKE REBOOT WH GAY DADS
• HERE'S WHETHER MICHAEL IS GAY IN THE PROUD FAY: LOUR AND PROUR
• ZACHARY QUTO, BILLY PORTER TO VOICE GAY DADS ON NEW DISNEY+ SERI
• DISNEY’S ‘THE PROUD FAY’ GETTG WOKE REBOOT WH GAY DADS
• HERE’S A LOOK AT THE GAY DAD’S ON ‘THE PROUD FAY’ REBOOT
• DISNEY RENEWS “THE PROUD FAY: LOUR AND PROUR” FOR SEND SEASON, SHOW IS AT CENTER OF DISNEY’S “NOT-AT-ALL-SECRET GAY AGENDA” AIMED AT CHILDREN
• DISNEY PL ANNOUNC ‘THE PROUD FAY’ REBOOT THAT WILL NOW FEATURE “GAY DADS”
• ‘PROUD FAY’ REBOOT TO STAR BILLY PORTER, ZACHARY QUTO AS GAY UPLE

DISNEY PL ANNOUNC 'THE PROUD FAY' REBOOT WILL FEATURE GAY DADS

”The cln of a same-sex uple on a forthg reboot of an animated seri is not Disney’s first attempt to clu LGBT characters and activism s children’s year, Disney and s animatn stud Pixar produced the feature film “Onward, ” featurg a lbian character as well as the short film “Out, ” which beme the stud’s first productn to feature a gay ma character. The cln of a “gay moment” the 2017 live-actn Disney movie “Bety and the Beast” led to lls for a boytt om Christian addn to troducg LGBT characters s films and TV seri, Disney has troduced apparel specifilly signed for children celebratg Pri Month.

‘NOT-AT-ALL-SECRET GAY AGENDA’: DISNEY EMPLOYE BREAK DOWN ‘ADDG QUEERNS’ TO CHILDREN’S SHOW, DEGENRIZG THEME PARKS

On Tuday night, Chris Rufo released several vios purportedly om a recent “all-hands” Disney staff meetg to discs the Florida Parental Rights In Edutn Bill — aka the rrectly termed, “Don’t Say Gay Bill” — as well as Disney’s efforts to ph radil genr iology and other progrsive ias on sexualy.

DISNEY EXEC PS TO ADVANCG ‘GAY AGENDA’ BY ‘ADDG QUEERNS’ TO SHOWS

Acrdg to the footage obtaed by Rufo, one executive producer said that she was easily able to implement her “not-at-all secret gay agenda” one show while another Disney manager discsed the pany’s move to drop “genred greetgs” om live spiels and other aspects of the Ravene, an executive producer for Disney who has worked on shows such as “The Proud Fay, ” explaed how she was pleasantly surprised by the welg attu and open-mdns that the pany had toward the LGBTQIA+ agenda, particularly as relat to “addg queerns” to the show she worked on, “The Proud Fay. ”“Our learship over there has been so welg to like, my like, not-at-all secret gay agenda, ” Raveanu said reference to the team that worked on “The Proud Fay. ” Raveane’s ments n be seen here:SCOOP: I've obtaed vio om si Disney's all-hands meetg about the Florida parental rights bill, which executive producer Latoya Ravene says her team has implemented a "not-at-all-secret gay agenda" and is regularly "addg queerns" to children's programmg.

Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisfo) March 29, 2022Disney Corporate Print Karey Burke also allegedly chimed durg that meetg, implorg the pany to add more LGBTQIA lead characters to the pani stori:We have many, many, many LGBTQIA characters our stori and yet we don’t have enough leads, a narrative which gay characters jt — jt get to be characters and not have to be about gay stori. A Disney executive producer admted she has been phg a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” for children’s animatn, even as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law this week.

To my not-at-all-secret gay agenda, ” Ravene said a leaked vio obtaed by journalist Christopher Rufo. A monstrator tak part a prott as Disney’s employe monstrate agast Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Glendale, California.

DISNEY’S ‘THE PROUD FAY’ GETTG WOKE REBOOT WH GAY DADS

DeSantis on Monday signed the Parental Rights Edutn bill, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by crics.

A group of California Disney employe staged a walkout last week to prott the measure, wearg rabow lors, holdg signs wh pro-LGBTQ slogans, and shoutg, “Say Gay, ” as they marched down the street.

Disney issued a statement nmng Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn. Disney is lookg to put the “proud” s The Proud Fay kids show wh a woke reboot of the popular seri that will feature gay fathers. The gay dads, to be voiced by Zachary Quto and Billy Porter, are also the adopted parents to a 14-year-old social jtice activist, acrdg to a report by Entertament Weekly.

HERE'S WHETHER MICHAEL IS GAY IN THE PROUD FAY: LOUR AND PROUR

The first two episos of The Proud Fay: Lour And Prour show the signs of Michael beg gay.

In the show, n easily be noticed that Michael is gay. Michael Is A Gay Character In The Proud Fay: Lour And Prour. A lot of stanc the show pot towards the homosexual nature of Michael, the first beg his appearance.

The way he talks and his walkg style also speak for his homosexual nature. But Michael tak his sexualy que proudly, and he openly accepts that he's gay.

ZACHARY QUTO, BILLY PORTER TO VOICE GAY DADS ON NEW DISNEY+ SERI

Michael tak his stand and sults anyone who tri to bully him over beg gay.

[Disney Televisn Animatn senr vice print] Meredh Roberts and our learship over there has been so welg to my not-at-all-secret gay agenda. \u201cSCOOP: I've obtaed vio om si Disney's all-hands meetg about the Florida parental rights bill, which executive producer Latoya Ravene says her team has implemented a "not-at-all-secret gay agenda" and is regularly "addg queerns" to children's programmg.

1648591064The nference ll was likely to ease ternal tensns at Disney amid cricism that the pany, a major employer Florida at s Walt Disney World theme parks, remaed ntral as the Florida Legislature bated the ntroversial "don't say gay" bill. Disney Executive Producer Adms to 'Secret Gay Agenda' | Natnal Review.

DISNEY’S ‘THE PROUD FAY’ GETTG WOKE REBOOT WH GAY DADS

"Iger, the CEO of one of Florida's largt employers, also fend Disney's right to speak out last year agast a ntroversial state bill that limed classroom discsn of LGBTQ+ issu, dubbed "Don't Say Gay" by move by then-CEO Bob Chapek, who succeed Iger 2020 and rigned 2022 when Iger returned to the helm, kicked off the bter fd wh the ernor and his Republin alli. "The DeSantis mpaign rpond to Iger later Thursday by tweetg a vio clip of Disney executive Karey Burke speakg a 2022 pany-wi Zoom ll about LGBTQ reprentatn the pany's that clip scrib herself as a mother of two queer children and says, "We don't have enough leads and narrativ which gay characters jt get to be characters and not have to be about gay stori. An executive producer at Disney, she was a speaker at a recent virtual all-hands pany meetg about Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

Ravene stepped up to fend the pany’s queer iendls, only to bee a natnal object of right-wg fury and a vio ll, Ravene spoke about her ial apprehensn about takg a job at Disney, fearg she wouldn’t be allowed to clu gay characters the projects she worked on.

HERE’S A LOOK AT THE GAY DAD’S ON ‘THE PROUD FAY’ REBOOT

Instead, she said, everyone she’s worked wh has weled her “not at all secret gay agenda, ” lettg her add “queerns” to the animated show she directs, a revival of an early-ghts seri lled “The Proud Fay. The show’s ma character, Penny Proud, has a flamboyant gay iend who has to al wh bullyg, and another character has gay dads.

The story has blown up on the right, where Ravene’s arch reference to a gay agenda is beg treated as an admissn that she has a plan to rpt kids.

Ravene has land the middle of a renascent moral panic, one that b elements of QAnon wh old trop about gay I spoke to Rufo on Thursday, he was ank about wantg to punish Disney for givg to employee prsure to oppose the Florida law. 1557, the “Don’t Say Gay” law, which prohibs classroom stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty for kids below fourth gra, and any such stctn that is not “age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate” for olr stunts.

DISNEY RENEWS “THE PROUD FAY: LOUR AND PROUR” FOR SEND SEASON, SHOW IS AT CENTER OF DISNEY’S “NOT-AT-ALL-SECRET GAY AGENDA” AIMED AT CHILDREN

What nstut “classroom stctn” is unclear, but many fear uld clu any mentn of gay or transgenr people, cludg stunts’ fai. ” The QAnon ia that the right’s polil opposn is a bal of pedophil has gone is, of urse, not the first time that gay and genr-nonnformg people have been amed as a moral threat to children.

In 1977, Ana Bryant, a former bety queen and spokwoman for the Florida Cs Commissn, started the anti-gay Save Our Children mpaign. “Homosexuals nnot reproduce, so they mt rec, ” she said.

”In recent years, the Republin Party has largely chewed such language, appearg to make their peace wh the prence of gays, lbians and transgenr people public life.

DISNEY PL ANNOUNC ‘THE PROUD FAY’ REBOOT THAT WILL NOW FEATURE “GAY DADS”

The characters are scribed as a mixed-race gay uple who are the adoptive parents of 14-year-old activist Maya Leibowz-Jenks, to be voiced by Keke Palmer. Disney is lookg to put the “proud” s The Proud Fay kids show wh a woke reboot of the popular seri that will feature gay fathers.

The gay dads, to be voiced by Zachary Quto and Billy Porter, are also the adopted parents to a 14-year-old social jtice activist, acrdg to a report by Entertament Weekly. 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).

‘PROUD FAY’ REBOOT TO STAR BILLY PORTER, ZACHARY QUTO AS GAY UPLE

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. " 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.

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.