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On episo six of ‘The Other Two’ season three, Cary Dubek do the voice of a gay Disney character named Globby. It turns out ‘Big Hero 6: The Seri’ has a queer globby character already.

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The pany’s tone af mishandlg of Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ bill has revealed a long-gtatg nflict * disney gay comments *

”The Walt Disney Company, one of the world’s biggt media and entertament empir, pris self on a lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) iendly culture. But today s reputatn for clivy and tolerance is unr scty – as are s ep ti to the polil tablishment and the lack of LGBTQ reprentatn s ’s workers have been stagg walkouts prott at chief executive Bob Chapek’s lackltre rponse to Florida legislatn dubbed “don’t say gay”.

But their prejudic were laid bare by a tweet om Christa Phaw, prs secretary for Florida’s ernor, Ron DeSantis, that said: “The bill that liberals accurately ll ‘don’t say gay’ would be more accurately scribed as an anti-groomg bill. It has been nmned as “hateful” by Joe Bin and other Democrats who argue that monis LGBTQ, prs secretary of the LGBTQ rights anisatn Equaly Florida and a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shootg 2016, says: “The ‘don’t say gay bill’ was dubbed that by the muny bee is a bigoted, very specifilly anti-LGBTQ piece of legislatn signed to censor classroom speech about our muny.

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Many praised Disney for gettg back at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis after he retaliated agast the pany for bashg "Don't Say Gay." * disney gay comments *

Photograph: Chris Pizzello/Invisn/APYet the “don’t say gay” bill wrong-footed Chapek, who succeed Bob Iger as chief executive Febary 2020.

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They give to a lot of Democrats, bee they want those Democrats to be on their si too, but they have given a disproportnate amount to Republin legislators, many of whom supported and voted for the ‘don’t say gay’ bill. The Human Rights Campaign has said will stop acceptg money om Disney “until we see them build on their public mment and work wh LGBTQ+ advot to ensure that dangero proposals, like Florida’s ‘don’t say gay or trans’ bill, don’t bee dangero laws” Whehall and Ey Blunt Jungle Cise.

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Eric Marc, creator and host of the Makg Gay History podst, says: “Disney has cultivated an LGBTQ-iendly image, both through their cln of LGBTQ characters recent years and wh their employe, so ’s shockg but not shockg that the CEO would have been so flat-footed. Photograph: APFor s the stud’s output was steadfastly heterosexual even though s creative talents clud gay people such as Howard Ashman, an Osr wner who wrote the lyrics for The Ltle Mermaid and Bety and the Beast before his ath om Aids has been some progrs sce then wh a growg LGBTQ portrayals films and TV shows and the sellg of LGBTQ pri-themed merchandise at Disney stor.

Last year’s film Jungle Cise featured a proment gay character: McGregor Houghton, played by Jack Whehall. “Nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn is cut at Disney’s beht, regardls of when there is prott om both the creative teams and executive learship at Pixar.

”Disney sued DeSantis April, claimg that the ernor’s cisn to strip the pany of ntrol of the special district ntag s signature theme park was retaliatn for s opposn to Florida’s “don’t say gay” bill, which forbids stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty krgarten through third gra. Related: JoJo Siwa Says She Realized She Was Gay at Disney World.

DISNEY CEO APOLOGIZ FOR ‘SILENCE’ ON ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

The Walt Disney Company is now publicly opposg Florida's ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill. * disney gay comments *

Governor Ron DeSantis passed legislatn to dissolve the district as retaliatn after former Disney CEO Bob Chapek formally nounced the Parental Rights Edutn Act, lloquially known as the “Don’t Say Gay” law, and promised to pse polil donatns Florida. Fans praised the Central Florida Disney Park on social media after the nference announcement, which me on the same day that DeSantis announced plans to extend “Don’t Say Gay” through high school gras. Related: Gay Days Tak Over Disney World Dpe Florida Battle.

“So this goo is homosexual? ” Cary asks the execs, who adm that Disney has received “flak” for talkg up a character as gay the prs lead-up to a film and then “not really showg , ” a reference to a recurrg real-life Disney phenomenon. One recent example is the much-hyped “exclively gay moment” the live-actn Bety and the Beast, where straight actor Josh Gad, playg LeFou, danc wh a woman and then danc for two sends wh a man a group shot of a lot of people dancg.

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” They ll the moment “unapologetilly gay” bee “if Globby was straight … then he’d be bed wh a human woman.

It’s a classic Disney gay-fakeout, and the amount of tim people say “Glob” and “Globby” and sist that gay Globs like other Globs but straight Globs like “human women” mak sound like an I Thk You Should Leave sketch. But Cary leans to for reerist reasons, and alienat his iends, GLAAD, and the Wtboro Baptist Church (not gay enough, even for them! While we never see the two of them bed together like Hnted Buddi 4’s unapologetilly gay moment, they snuggle up on the uch together, hold each other, watch trashy realy TV, and -parent a t.

Regardls of the ambiguo stat as non, Globby and Felony Carl’s goo-goo-eyed, romantic duet really is unambiguoly romantic and gay.

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Cred: Gay Days Anaheim Facebook. In the 1990s, the gural Gay Days h Disneyland and Walt Disney World Rort – thoands of members of the LGBTQIA+ muny held an unofficial meetup at Magic Kgdom and Disneyland Park. Sce then, Gay Days has remaed a Disney Parks fan-favore event.

Gay Days took over Walt Disney World Rort June – Pri Month. Related: Gay Pri Collectn Creator Comms To Year-Round Rabow Disney Merchandise. If you missed Gay Days this year, don’t worry!

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