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• ROWAN BLANCHARD OPENS UP ABOUT HER SEXUALY: "I DON'T WANNA LABEL MYSELF AS STRAIGHT, GAY OR WHATEVA"
• GAY MEETS GIRLSTREAM AND WATCH ONLE
• DISNEY, SAY Y TO QUEER CHARACTERSGIRL MEETS WORLDIT’S TIME FOR DISNEY TO STOP TIPTOEG AROUND CLN.NI LANGUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 5:55PM EDT / PUBLISHED JAN. 19, 2016 5:10PM EST BOB D'AMI/DISNEYOVER THE WEEKEND, GIRL MEETS WORLD ACTRS—AND SELF-AVOWED TERSECTNAL FEMIST—ROWAN BLANCHARD ME OUT ON TWTER.THE 14-YEAR-OLD DISNEY CHANNEL STAR RPOND TO THE #RILEYMATTHEWSBISEXUAL2K16 MPAIGN, WHICH LLED ON THE WORK TO ALLOW S PROTAGONIST TO EXPLORE HER SEXUALY THIS SEASON. THE SHOW—A SPOFF OF THE LATE-’90S TGIF FAVORE, BOY MEETS WORLD—FOLLOWS COREY AND TOPANGA’S DGHTER, RILEY, AS SHE NAVIGAT WHAT MEANS TO BE A TEENAGER 2016. AS TWTER ERS ARGUED, TACKLG SEXUAL ORIENTATN IS A MAJOR PART OF THAT DISCSN.ROWAN BLANCHARD RPOND THAT SHE WEL LGBT STORYL ON GIRL MEETS WORLD, TWEETG THAT “’S VVV IMPORTANT TO ME, BEG QUEER, THAT THERE IS REPRENTATN ON OUR SHOW.” SHE EXPLAED THAT WHILE SHE’S NEVER HAD A SAME-SEX RELATNSHIP, SHE’S “OPEN TO LIKG ANY GENR” THE FUTURE. “[B]EG QUEER TO ME JT MEANS NOT PUTTG A LABEL ON SEXUALY—JT EXISTG,” BLANCHARD SAID.MS. BLANCHARD IS RIGHT: QUEER CLN IS CREDIBLY CCIAL FOR SHOWS LIKE GIRL MEETS WORLD AND PANI LIKE DISNEY, ORR TO REPRENT THE LIVED EXPERIENC OF THE QUEERT GENERATN HISTORY. AFTER ALL, BLANCHARD ME OUT ON TWTER JT DAYS AFTER HUNGER GAM ACTRS AMANDLA STERNBERG DISCLOSED HER SEXUALY A SERI OF SNAPCHATS FOR TEEN VOGUE. “IT’S A REALLY, REALLY HARD THG TO BE SILENCED AND ’S EPLY BISG TO FIGHT AGAST YOUR INTY AND TO MOLD YOURSELF TO SHAP THAT YOU JT SHOULDN’T BE ,” SHE SAID. “AS SOMEONE WHO INTIFI AS A BLACK, BISEXUAL WOMAN I’VE BEEN THROUGH .”HISTORILLY, DISNEY ISN’T KNOWN FOR BEG PARTICULARLY FORWARD-THKG WHEN TO QUEER ISSU. AS I WROTE AN OP-ED FOR THE GUARDIAN LAST YEAR, DISNEY EQUENTLY S S VILLAS AS QUEER. IN CREATG THE CHARACTER OF URSULA FOR THE LTLE MERMAID, ANIMATORS BASED THE VOLUPTUO SEA-WCH ON DIVE, THE FAMED ’70S DRAG QUEEN WHO WAS A EQUENT STAR JOHN WATERS’S FILMS.IN THE SE OF THE LN KG’S SR, ’S NOT THAT THE CHARACTER ACTUALLY SLEEPS WH MEN BUT, AS DOCUMENTARIAN DAVID THROPE ARGUED, THAT HIS EFFETE MANNERISMS SIGNIFY THAT HE’S AN OTHER. “FILMS NEED VILLAS,” THORPE TOLD VICE, “AND FOR A VERY LONG TIME, THE EFFETE, ARISTOCRATIC, EFFEMATE MAN WAS THE VILLA.”HOWEVER, THE PANY HAS BEEN TIPTOEG TOWARD CLN RECENT YEARS, AS THE RT OF THE ANIMATN DTRY BE MORE QUEER IENDLY. WHILE THE DISNEY CHANNEL’S GOOD LUCK CHARLIE TRODUCED A STORYLE FEATURG TWO LBIAN MOMS 2014, THE SMASH H FROZEN ALSO WKED AT GAY DIENC. WHEN ANNA AND KRISTOFF STOP AT “WANRG OAKEN'S TRADG POST AND SNA,” THE SHOPKEEPER IS SEEN BRIEFLY WAVG TO HIS FAY—OAKEN’S HBAND AND TWO KIDS.LAST YEAR, NEWS BROKE THAT DISNEY WAS VELOPG PRC—A ROYAL ROMANCE THAT WOULD FEATURE S FIRST SAME-SEX UPLE. (THE FILM WAS MORED BE AN ADAPTATN OF JEFEY A. MIL’S CHILDREN'S BOOK, THE PRC AND THE TREASURE.) THAT TURNED OUT TO BE A HOAX, BUT AS SALLY KOHN WROTE THE NEW REPUBLIC, THERE’S A REASON THE REPORT WENT VIRAL.“IT WAS SHARED ON FACEBOOK MORE THAN 60,000 TIM,” SHE SAID. “NO DOUBT MANY OF THE SHAR ME OM VILLAGERS OM GLENBECKISTAN, BUT MANY OTHERS WERE PROBABLY ELATED, EAGER FOR A DISNEY FILM TO FALLY REFLECT MORN AMERI.” SIX MONTHS AFTER THE SUPREME COURT MA MARRIAGE EQUALY THE LAW OF THE LAND, A RECENT SURVEY OM GALLUP SHOWED THAT “ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS IS AT AN ALL-TIME HIGH.”BUT CERTA POPULATNS PARTICULARLY NEED THIS GROUP OF SUPPORT. IN ADDN TO TRANS PEOPLE, WHO FACE HIGH RISKS OF VLENCE, YOUNG QUEER PEOPLE ARE DISPROPORTNATELY LIKELY TO BE HOMELS. STATISTICS OM UCLA’S WILLIAMS INSTUTE SHOW THAT AROUND 4 10 HOMELS YOUTHS INTIFY AS LGBT. MANY OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE EJECTED OM THEIR HOM AFTER G OUT. MOST TEENAGE GIRLS ARE WORRIED ABOUT JUGGLG IENDS AND SCHOOLWORK, BUT ACRDG TO NBC, 19-YEAR-OLD DIAMOND MARKS—A TRANS WOMAN OF LOR—IS MOST NCERNED ABOUT WHERE SHE’LL SLEEP NEXT, WHETHER ’S AT A IEND’S APARTMENT, A SHELTER, OR A PUBLIC PARK.DISNEY’S FIRST QUEER PROTAGONIST ISN’T THE ONLY SOLUTN TO THE ISSU. LGBT YOUTH NEED GREATER SUPPORT WORKS ACROSS THE UNTRY—WHETHER THAT’S OM SCHOOLS, ADVOCY ANIZATNS, OR LOL SERVICE PROVIRS—BUT MEDIA REPRENTATN IS ABSOLUTELY A PART OF THE MOVEMENT FOR ACCEPTANCE. PROGRAMS LIKE GIRL MEETS WORLD N OPEN UP A SPACE FOR NVERSATNS AMERIN HOEHOLDS BETWEEN PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN, NORMALIZG QUEER SEXUALY FOR THOSE WHO NTUE TO LACK CCIAL UNRSTANDG.GIVEN THAT BLANCHARD IS JT 14 AND THE SHOW’S TARGET DIENCE IS PRISED OF VERY YOUNG ADULTS, MANY PARENTS MIGHT BE UNFORTABLE WH HAVG TEEN PROGRAMMG BROACH THE SUBJECTS. AFTER AIRG THE LBIAN-THEMED EPISO, THE NSERVATIVE BACKLASH AGAST GOOD LUCK CHARLIE WAS SO VRLIC THAT THE SHOW’S STAR, THEN FIVE-YEAR-OLD MIA TALERI, RECEIVED ATH ATHS OM ANGRY FANS.IN A STATEMENT, ONE MILLN MOMS URGED THE WORK TO “AVOID NTROVERSIAL TOPICS THAT CHILDREN ARE FAR TOO YOUNG TO PREHEND.” THE GROUP NTUED, “MATURE ISSU OF THIS NATURE ARE BEG TRODUCED TOO EARLY AND TOO SOON, AND IS EXTREMELY UNNECSARY.”THAT MIGHT DISSUA DISNEY OM FURTHER WADG TO THOSE WATERS, BUT SHOULDN’T: QUEER YOUTH ARE G OUT AT CREASGLY EARLY AG—EVEN AS YOUNG AS MIDDLE AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. “WHILE STUDI THE 1970S DOCUMENTED LGBT PEOPLE G OUT, ON AVERAGE, THEIR EARLY TWENTI, THE LATT REARCH MONSTRAT THAT THE AVERAGE AGE HAS DROPPED TO ANYWHERE BETWEEN 14 AND 16,” BUZZFEED’S SHANNON KEATG WR.OTHER TIMAT SUGGT THAT THE AVERAGE AGE IS EVEN LOWER THAN THAT—AS YOUNG AS 13. PARENTS MIGHT THK KIDS “AREN’T OLD ENOUGH” TO GET , BUT IF RILEY MATTHEWS WERE TO E OUT, THEY WOULD BE MORE LIKELY THAN EVER TO KNOW A STUNT LIKE HER. THEY MIGHT EVEN BE A KID LIKE HER.SHOWS LIKE ABC FAY’S BOUNDARY-PHG DRAMA THE FOSTERS ARE ALREADY REGNIZG THAT REALY. WHILE PREV STORYL FEATURG QUEER TEENS—LIKE RICKIE VASQUEZ ON MY SO-CALLED LIFE AND JACK MCPHEE ON DAWSON’S CREEK—CENTERED ON HIGH SCHOOL STUNTS, THE SHOW’S JU AND CONNOR WERE JT 13 WHEN THEY SHARED THEIR FIRST ONSCREEN KISS. THAT MIGHT MAKE THE PAIR THE YOUNGT SAME-SEX UPLE TELEVISN HISTORY, BUT FOR THE TEENS WATCHG, WASN’T JT GROUNDBREAKG. IT WAS A CHANCE FOR TELEVISN TO FALLY TCH UP TO REALY.IT’S CREDIBLY EXCG THAT ROWAN BLANCHARD ME OUT—AND THAT THE SPIRG YOUNG ACTRS WILL BE PUTTG PRSURE ON DISNEY TO HAVE HER CHARACTER FOLLOW SU. BUT WHAT’S MOST SPIRG IS THAT GAY TEENS ARE DOG THE SAME EVERY DAY, G OUT ON THEIR TWTER AND FACEBOOK ACUNTS TO THEIR IENDS AND FAY.THOSE URAGEO YOUTH SERVE TO SEE A GIRL LIKE THEM ON EVERY TV AMERI. NI LANG
• WHEN A GAY GIRL MEETS A TRANS GIRL

ROWAN BLANCHARD OPENS UP ABOUT HER SEXUALY: "I DON'T WANNA LABEL MYSELF AS STRAIGHT, GAY OR WHATEVA"

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GAY MEETS GIRLSTREAM AND WATCH ONLE

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DISNEY, SAY Y TO QUEER CHARACTERSGIRL MEETS WORLDIT’S TIME FOR DISNEY TO STOP TIPTOEG AROUND CLN.NI LANGUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 5:55PM EDT / PUBLISHED JAN. 19, 2016 5:10PM EST BOB D'AMI/DISNEYOVER THE WEEKEND, GIRL MEETS WORLD ACTRS—AND SELF-AVOWED TERSECTNAL FEMIST—ROWAN BLANCHARD ME OUT ON TWTER.THE 14-YEAR-OLD DISNEY CHANNEL STAR RPOND TO THE #RILEYMATTHEWSBISEXUAL2K16 MPAIGN, WHICH LLED ON THE WORK TO ALLOW S PROTAGONIST TO EXPLORE HER SEXUALY THIS SEASON. THE SHOW—A SPOFF OF THE LATE-’90S TGIF FAVORE, BOY MEETS WORLD—FOLLOWS COREY AND TOPANGA’S DGHTER, RILEY, AS SHE NAVIGAT WHAT MEANS TO BE A TEENAGER 2016. AS TWTER ERS ARGUED, TACKLG SEXUAL ORIENTATN IS A MAJOR PART OF THAT DISCSN.ROWAN BLANCHARD RPOND THAT SHE WEL LGBT STORYL ON GIRL MEETS WORLD, TWEETG THAT “’S VVV IMPORTANT TO ME, BEG QUEER, THAT THERE IS REPRENTATN ON OUR SHOW.” SHE EXPLAED THAT WHILE SHE’S NEVER HAD A SAME-SEX RELATNSHIP, SHE’S “OPEN TO LIKG ANY GENR” THE FUTURE. “[B]EG QUEER TO ME JT MEANS NOT PUTTG A LABEL ON SEXUALY—JT EXISTG,” BLANCHARD SAID.MS. BLANCHARD IS RIGHT: QUEER CLN IS CREDIBLY CCIAL FOR SHOWS LIKE GIRL MEETS WORLD AND PANI LIKE DISNEY, ORR TO REPRENT THE LIVED EXPERIENC OF THE QUEERT GENERATN HISTORY. AFTER ALL, BLANCHARD ME OUT ON TWTER JT DAYS AFTER HUNGER GAM ACTRS AMANDLA STERNBERG DISCLOSED HER SEXUALY A SERI OF SNAPCHATS FOR TEEN VOGUE. “IT’S A REALLY, REALLY HARD THG TO BE SILENCED AND ’S EPLY BISG TO FIGHT AGAST YOUR INTY AND TO MOLD YOURSELF TO SHAP THAT YOU JT SHOULDN’T BE ,” SHE SAID. “AS SOMEONE WHO INTIFI AS A BLACK, BISEXUAL WOMAN I’VE BEEN THROUGH .”HISTORILLY, DISNEY ISN’T KNOWN FOR BEG PARTICULARLY FORWARD-THKG WHEN TO QUEER ISSU. AS I WROTE AN OP-ED FOR THE GUARDIAN LAST YEAR, DISNEY EQUENTLY S S VILLAS AS QUEER. IN CREATG THE CHARACTER OF URSULA FOR THE LTLE MERMAID, ANIMATORS BASED THE VOLUPTUO SEA-WCH ON DIVE, THE FAMED ’70S DRAG QUEEN WHO WAS A EQUENT STAR JOHN WATERS’S FILMS.IN THE SE OF THE LN KG’S SR, ’S NOT THAT THE CHARACTER ACTUALLY SLEEPS WH MEN BUT, AS DOCUMENTARIAN DAVID THROPE ARGUED, THAT HIS EFFETE MANNERISMS SIGNIFY THAT HE’S AN OTHER. “FILMS NEED VILLAS,” THORPE TOLD VICE, “AND FOR A VERY LONG TIME, THE EFFETE, ARISTOCRATIC, EFFEMATE MAN WAS THE VILLA.”HOWEVER, THE PANY HAS BEEN TIPTOEG TOWARD CLN RECENT YEARS, AS THE RT OF THE ANIMATN DTRY BE MORE QUEER IENDLY. WHILE THE DISNEY CHANNEL’S GOOD LUCK CHARLIE TRODUCED A STORYLE FEATURG TWO LBIAN MOMS 2014, THE SMASH H FROZEN ALSO WKED AT GAY DIENC. WHEN ANNA AND KRISTOFF STOP AT “WANRG OAKEN'S TRADG POST AND SNA,” THE SHOPKEEPER IS SEEN BRIEFLY WAVG TO HIS FAY—OAKEN’S HBAND AND TWO KIDS.LAST YEAR, NEWS BROKE THAT DISNEY WAS VELOPG PRC—A ROYAL ROMANCE THAT WOULD FEATURE S FIRST SAME-SEX UPLE. (THE FILM WAS MORED BE AN ADAPTATN OF JEFEY A. MIL’S CHILDREN'S BOOK, THE PRC AND THE TREASURE.) THAT TURNED OUT TO BE A HOAX, BUT AS SALLY KOHN WROTE THE NEW REPUBLIC, THERE’S A REASON THE REPORT WENT VIRAL.“IT WAS SHARED ON FACEBOOK MORE THAN 60,000 TIM,” SHE SAID. “NO DOUBT MANY OF THE SHAR ME OM VILLAGERS OM GLENBECKISTAN, BUT MANY OTHERS WERE PROBABLY ELATED, EAGER FOR A DISNEY FILM TO FALLY REFLECT MORN AMERI.” SIX MONTHS AFTER THE SUPREME COURT MA MARRIAGE EQUALY THE LAW OF THE LAND, A RECENT SURVEY OM GALLUP SHOWED THAT “ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS IS AT AN ALL-TIME HIGH.”BUT CERTA POPULATNS PARTICULARLY NEED THIS GROUP OF SUPPORT. IN ADDN TO TRANS PEOPLE, WHO FACE HIGH RISKS OF VLENCE, YOUNG QUEER PEOPLE ARE DISPROPORTNATELY LIKELY TO BE HOMELS. STATISTICS OM UCLA’S WILLIAMS INSTUTE SHOW THAT AROUND 4 10 HOMELS YOUTHS INTIFY AS LGBT. MANY OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE EJECTED OM THEIR HOM AFTER G OUT. MOST TEENAGE GIRLS ARE WORRIED ABOUT JUGGLG IENDS AND SCHOOLWORK, BUT ACRDG TO NBC, 19-YEAR-OLD DIAMOND MARKS—A TRANS WOMAN OF LOR—IS MOST NCERNED ABOUT WHERE SHE’LL SLEEP NEXT, WHETHER ’S AT A IEND’S APARTMENT, A SHELTER, OR A PUBLIC PARK.DISNEY’S FIRST QUEER PROTAGONIST ISN’T THE ONLY SOLUTN TO THE ISSU. LGBT YOUTH NEED GREATER SUPPORT WORKS ACROSS THE UNTRY—WHETHER THAT’S OM SCHOOLS, ADVOCY ANIZATNS, OR LOL SERVICE PROVIRS—BUT MEDIA REPRENTATN IS ABSOLUTELY A PART OF THE MOVEMENT FOR ACCEPTANCE. PROGRAMS LIKE GIRL MEETS WORLD N OPEN UP A SPACE FOR NVERSATNS AMERIN HOEHOLDS BETWEEN PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN, NORMALIZG QUEER SEXUALY FOR THOSE WHO NTUE TO LACK CCIAL UNRSTANDG.GIVEN THAT BLANCHARD IS JT 14 AND THE SHOW’S TARGET DIENCE IS PRISED OF VERY YOUNG ADULTS, MANY PARENTS MIGHT BE UNFORTABLE WH HAVG TEEN PROGRAMMG BROACH THE SUBJECTS. AFTER AIRG THE LBIAN-THEMED EPISO, THE NSERVATIVE BACKLASH AGAST GOOD LUCK CHARLIE WAS SO VRLIC THAT THE SHOW’S STAR, THEN FIVE-YEAR-OLD MIA TALERI, RECEIVED ATH ATHS OM ANGRY FANS.IN A STATEMENT, ONE MILLN MOMS URGED THE WORK TO “AVOID NTROVERSIAL TOPICS THAT CHILDREN ARE FAR TOO YOUNG TO PREHEND.” THE GROUP NTUED, “MATURE ISSU OF THIS NATURE ARE BEG TRODUCED TOO EARLY AND TOO SOON, AND IS EXTREMELY UNNECSARY.”THAT MIGHT DISSUA DISNEY OM FURTHER WADG TO THOSE WATERS, BUT SHOULDN’T: QUEER YOUTH ARE G OUT AT CREASGLY EARLY AG—EVEN AS YOUNG AS MIDDLE AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. “WHILE STUDI THE 1970S DOCUMENTED LGBT PEOPLE G OUT, ON AVERAGE, THEIR EARLY TWENTI, THE LATT REARCH MONSTRAT THAT THE AVERAGE AGE HAS DROPPED TO ANYWHERE BETWEEN 14 AND 16,” BUZZFEED’S SHANNON KEATG WR.OTHER TIMAT SUGGT THAT THE AVERAGE AGE IS EVEN LOWER THAN THAT—AS YOUNG AS 13. PARENTS MIGHT THK KIDS “AREN’T OLD ENOUGH” TO GET , BUT IF RILEY MATTHEWS WERE TO E OUT, THEY WOULD BE MORE LIKELY THAN EVER TO KNOW A STUNT LIKE HER. THEY MIGHT EVEN BE A KID LIKE HER.SHOWS LIKE ABC FAY’S BOUNDARY-PHG DRAMA THE FOSTERS ARE ALREADY REGNIZG THAT REALY. WHILE PREV STORYL FEATURG QUEER TEENS—LIKE RICKIE VASQUEZ ON MY SO-CALLED LIFE AND JACK MCPHEE ON DAWSON’S CREEK—CENTERED ON HIGH SCHOOL STUNTS, THE SHOW’S JU AND CONNOR WERE JT 13 WHEN THEY SHARED THEIR FIRST ONSCREEN KISS. THAT MIGHT MAKE THE PAIR THE YOUNGT SAME-SEX UPLE TELEVISN HISTORY, BUT FOR THE TEENS WATCHG, WASN’T JT GROUNDBREAKG. IT WAS A CHANCE FOR TELEVISN TO FALLY TCH UP TO REALY.IT’S CREDIBLY EXCG THAT ROWAN BLANCHARD ME OUT—AND THAT THE SPIRG YOUNG ACTRS WILL BE PUTTG PRSURE ON DISNEY TO HAVE HER CHARACTER FOLLOW SU. BUT WHAT’S MOST SPIRG IS THAT GAY TEENS ARE DOG THE SAME EVERY DAY, G OUT ON THEIR TWTER AND FACEBOOK ACUNTS TO THEIR IENDS AND FAY.THOSE URAGEO YOUTH SERVE TO SEE A GIRL LIKE THEM ON EVERY TV AMERI. NI LANG

Among the fe reasons to love Other People is that featur a gay protagonist even though the movie isn’t about his sexualy. It’s always rehg to see gay characters gog about their daily liv as people who do thgs other than jt date each other!

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WHEN A GAY GIRL MEETS A TRANS GIRL

Instead of spotlightg any gay characters, the LGBTQ+ muny has adopted M3GAN — a robotic doll — as a queer in of sorts. While seems that Jsi is probably bisexual, her partner tells her she’s not “gay enough” to be wh a woman. The film is warm, tenr, and will challenge many notns you might have about what means to be gay and be livg wh a disabily.