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• DISNEY'S 8 'FIRST OPENLY GAY' CHARACTERS, RANKED (BY HOW EMBARRASSED DISNEY SHOULD FEEL)
• HOW MANY TIM IS DISNEY GOG TO INTRODUCE ITS ‘FIRST’ GAY CHARACTER?
• HOW GAY IS PIXAR’S LU?
• CONGRATULATNS TO DISNEY’S 7TH FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER
• PIXAR SHORT ‘OUT’ FEATUR THE STUD’S FIRST GAY LEAD CHARACTER
• DISNEY’S “DON’T SAY GAY” STANCE WASN’T THE FIRST TIME BETRAYED S LGBTQ FANS

DISNEY'S 8 'FIRST OPENLY GAY' CHARACTERS, RANKED (BY HOW EMBARRASSED DISNEY SHOULD FEEL)

Disney’s ntroversial rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill unrsr the pany’s plited history wh the LGBTQ+ muny — a plex relatnship which Disney has played both champn and punchg bag.

Earlier this month, Disney CEO Bob Chapek spoke out about — but did not nmn — Florida’s ntroversial Parental Rights Edutn bill, which crics dubbed “Don’t Say Gay. Griff, who is also a profsor of film and media arts at Southern Methodist Universy, add that Disney has recently received a lot of publicy about var Disney films wh openly gay characters. Even though Disney’s re product of fay-iendly entertament hasn’t been blatant s reprentatn of gay characters, ABC — which is owned by Disney — has done so wh TV shows like “Morn Fay” and “Ellen.

HOW MANY TIM IS DISNEY GOG TO INTRODUCE ITS ‘FIRST’ GAY CHARACTER?

The pany has never been known for s great LGBTQ+ reprentatn or polics, but 's e unr even more scty than ual after fans learned that the pany was donatg money to legislators Florida backg that state's ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill. Especially when the news broke that Pixar has been censorg gay ntent out of s films for Disney really been producg enough spirg ntent to unteract s donatns and lack of a statement? When this live-actn remake me out, Disney touted LeFou (played by Josh Gad) as beg their first gay character and even said that he had an "exclively gay moment" the film.

Disney and Marvel Studs proudly announced that 2019 they had troduced their first gay character the Marvel Cematic Universe, only to have fans fd out that was an unnamed character one scene played by the movie's straight -director. MacGregor, played by Jack Whehall, was supposed to be Disney's "first major gay character" when Jungle Cise was set to be released way back 2019, but bee of the global panmic, the film was layed until 2021.

HOW GAY IS PIXAR’S LU?

Artie is one of several characters advertised as the pany's "first major gay character" after both LeFou Bety and the Beast and MacGregor the layed-for-several-years Jungle Cise.

After news broke that Disney not only donated to legislators backg anti-gay bills, but also repeatedly cut queer ntent om their movi, Pixar cid to rtore a scene the Lightyear film where a female character named Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba) kiss her female partner. Comedian Jaboie Young-Whe will be voicg a new character the upg animated film Strange World who is volved "the first openly gay teen romance a Disney feature" acrdg to Twter er Matthiew Saghezchi, who saw a clip om the film at the Annecy 2022 ftival. Even though the parents had probably voted great time and effort to shield their children om such displays of gross and disgtg s as homosexualy and lbianism, they had to suffer through the spectacle of over 60, 000 gays, many of them drsed up the most revealg and outlandish garb.

" ["Comg Out to Play; ‘Gay Days’ at Disney World Prompt an Earful", AOL Keywords: GAY; GAYS; HOMOSEXUAL; HOMOSEXUALS The Washgton Post via Dow Jon, Publitn Date: Monday June 9, 1997, Style; Page D04,. Not any more, bee Disney is very termed to utilize the steps of the Six Step Attudal Change Plan to ndn the nocent mds of our children to accept homosexualy as beg jt as valid as normal heterosexualy.

CONGRATULATNS TO DISNEY’S 7TH FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER

The first fact we wish to pot out is that the Disney Corporatn placed s official blsg on this terrible event sce they approved the applitns of the gays to signate this day as Gay Day. Disney also hired avowed lbian, Lren Lloyd, to velop female and lbian movi, helped unrwre Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force fund-raisers 1991 and 1993, and allows a Gay and Lbian Task Force to meet on a regular basis at Disney World facili and adopted special benefs for homosexuals. {NOTE: The above exampl of the boldly pro-homosexual policy of the Disney Corporatn were taken om a Christian web se, the Florida Fay Associatn, at This particular article is entled, "Can You Tst DISNEY WITH YOUR CHILD’S HEART AND SOUL?

But, even more horribly, other rporatns are beg embolned by the succs Disney is realizg terg to the homosexual terts whout seeg the Pro-Fay Right beg able to liver any kd of harmful affect on their sal. If we were to wre the stor, tellg them we are gog to stop buyg any of their products until Disney stops promotg homosexualy, we will have a far greater impact than jt boyttg the official Disney stor.

In Genis 19, we see that the homosexual men of the cy, who surround Lot's hoe their sire to have sexual relatns wh the two angels outsi public, did not fear beg arrted for lewd and lasciv behavr.

PIXAR SHORT ‘OUT’ FEATUR THE STUD’S FIRST GAY LEAD CHARACTER

When mastream Corporate Ameri, like Disney, begs to promote homosexualy heavily and officially, you know we are lookg at one of the key propheci tellg that we are at the End of the Age. Screenshot: DisneyArtie is never explicly picted as queer Disney’s new villa orig story, which ma all the hubbub that he was the latt “First” gay character at the stud all rather silly. That and the fact took three trailers for him to get a le of dialogue, but Whehall’s McGregor at least gettg a scene that humanized his relatnship wh his sister bee of the fact she didn’t abandon him for beg queer like the rt of his fay—even if the scene did dance around sayg the word “gay”—was actually pretty solid, if fleetg.

DISNEY’S “DON’T SAY GAY” STANCE WASN’T THE FIRST TIME BETRAYED S LGBTQ FANS

It really do jt feel like yterday when we were promised the live-actn Bety and the Beast’s “exclively gay moment, ” only to be given Josh Gad dancg wh another man a ty agment of the film’s climactic dance sequence. Ever sce John Boyega and Osr Isaac’s Fn and Poe swapped jackets and lip-b their way to the galaxy far, far away’s hottt ship this si of the In T-65 X-Wg, Star Wars fans have wanted to see some gays space. Alas, after the Brothers Rso patted themselv on the back Endgame’s pre-release prs tours that they had brought the first on-screen explicly gay character to the MCU—after some fumbl along the way—we got...

It’s a faiar tone for the pany, as Disney has pneered their “first” gay character at least 7 tim, give or take; Onward, Bety and the Beast, Jungle Cise, The Rise of Skywalker, Zootopia, Toy Story 4, and Avengers: Endgame all feature mor characters who make exceedgly subtle referenc htg at same-sex attractn. In terms of the LGBTQ+ muny, though, Disney’s relatnship go far eper, and has veloped ways the pany self n never have Disney was never a rd-rryg homophobe but he was a steadfast nservative, and long after his ath 1966, Disney’s output ntued to promote “tradnal” and “fay” valu.

That didn’t disunt “dg” Disney characters (ually villas) as queer, that they exhibed stereotypilly gay attribut such as effemate behavur or distert the oppose sex: Jafar Aladd, for example, or Sr The Ln Kg, or even Shere Khan the tiger The Jungle Book. Compose: Guardian DignIn the early years, Disney would warn “straight” visors when was Gay Day and hand out whe T-shirts to non-participants who had advertently turned up wearg red.