Netflix Lnchg 'The Gay Agenda' Podst About LGBTQ Communy - Variety

Contents:

• FALLY THE GREAT GAY AGENDA IS WORKG! TWICE AS MANY OF NOW INTIFY AS LGBTQ+
• NETFLIX LNCH 'THE GAY AGENDA,' A PODST CELEBRATG LGBTQ MUNY
• THE ANTI-GAY AGENDA
• THE GAY AGENDA
• NETFLIX LNCH ‘THE GAY AGENDA,’ PODST CELEBRATG LGBTQ+ COMMUNY (EXCLUSIVE)

FALLY THE GREAT GAY AGENDA IS WORKG! TWICE AS MANY OF NOW INTIFY AS LGBTQ+

Hollywood has phed a ncerted, dtry-wi effort for years to place LGBTQ-related entertament to programs aimed at young dienc, often tim operatn wh gay rights group GLAAD.

Activists have repeatedly assumed that the sensible-shoe-wearg character is eher gay or bi-sexual. Last April, Disney revealed a gay character DuckTal named Vlet, who is prented as a child wh two gay dads. In May 2019, PBS children’s show Arthur featured a gay weddg scene s season premiere.

NETFLIX LNCH 'THE GAY AGENDA,' A PODST CELEBRATG LGBTQ MUNY

Ultimately, the storyle end wh the character Cys Goodman (Joshua Rh) announcg that he is gay. In April 2016, gay activist webse Pri labeled Steven Universe one of the queert kid’s shows on TV bee most of the characters are prented as gay.

In October 2016, the show’s two police characters were prented as participatg a gay relatnship wh one another. Popular kid’s show Blue’s Clu has teamed up wh drag queen “Na Wt” a vio aimed at celebratg Gay Pri Month.

THE ANTI-GAY AGENDA

But when to mercial kchens, women are still unrpaid and unrreprented -- that go double for lbian 's no secret that the culary dtry is male-domated, but acrdg to gay and lbian chefs, the macho environment has ltle tolerance for anythg feme -- whether that be a woman or a gay man whom workers view as culary dtry's misogyny is well documented. Dpe numero gay and lbian personali on Bravo and Food Network, cludg Ted Allen of Chopped, Cat Cora of Around the World 80 Plat, Elizabeth Falkner of Iron Chef, San Feniger of Too Hot Tamal, Anne Burrell of Worst Cooks Ameri, and Top Chef's Art Smh, out chefs who work the dtry say they're still the mory. "There don't tend to be a lot of gay chefs, " says Yig Pura, a gay pastry chef and wner of the first season of Top Chef: Jt Dserts, and who September opened his own San Francis shop, Tout Sweet Patisserie.

Pura said the first chef he worked for was a lbian, so he didn't enunter much homophobia unr her learship. But unlike gay chefs, several lbian chefs reported ls bullyg due to their sexual orientatn and stead had to nont the sexist, male-domated mdset of the culary world. Falkner beme San Francis's facto gay weddg ke baker wh her flagship bakery, Cizen Cake, known for s unique, creative nstctns, and s proximy to Cy Hall.

THE GAY AGENDA

"Pura stggl wh the same stereotypil assumptn, wh the poundg factor that people assume all pastry chefs are gay, he says. Elizabeth Falkner"Whether you're gay or straight, whether you're a Mlim, Christian, or Buddhist, people love food, " says Pura. Smh also partners wh Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundatn and Brish gby player Ben Cohen's antibullyg 4 of Top Chef: Masters featured a married gay uple petg agast each other, both for Mae chari that promote LGBT equaly.

NETFLIX LNCH ‘THE GAY AGENDA,’ PODST CELEBRATG LGBTQ+ COMMUNY (EXCLUSIVE)

Magaret ChoFeniger ss on the board of the Los Angel Gay and Lbian Center and partners wh and donat to several chari. The gut of honor sisted that Feniger and Lachman attend the party, and proudly troduced the uple to his nservative horts as "my new gay iends.

As a gay person of lor who emigrated om Ankara, Turkey, at the age of 12, Pura says he was a target for bulli high school.

"The thgs that I always thought ma me different and weak -- I've found that actually, my adult life, those are the thgs that make me really strong and set me asi as an dividual, " he 's more, the prsure on gay and lbian chefs n actually drive them to succeed, Pura ntends. Gilson om Germany pos wh an Amerin flag as he participat the Gay Pri para along Plista Avenue Sao Plo, Brazil. As the LGBTQ agenda has been ont and center durg Pri Month June, the Amerin Fay Associatn (AFA, ) is alertg parents about the ncerted effort to normalize homosexualy, same-sex marriage and the transgenr liftyle to the untry's youngt cizens.

"AFA is potg to several exampl of an agenda-driven asslt on young Amerins:This sprg, the tax-fund PBS Kids aired a gay marriage on the Arthur rtoon. Ratburn, was gay and gettg partment stor are not only offerg clothg and accsori for both adults and children to celebrate the gay liftyle, but the pany has also pledged to donate $100, 000 to the Gay, Lbian Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN), an anizatn whose primary foc is stctg school-aged stunts about how to create "gay" clubs public schools across the natn. " Child Protective Servic vtigated the boy's fay after a vio of him performg drag at a gay club Brooklyn surfaced.

A gay character was seemgly shoe-horned to a scene the blockbter Marvel film Avengers: Endgame to satisfy the LGBT agenda and reach a younger Queen Story Hours have been planned at lol public and school librari natnwi over the past year. 5% take thgs very serly the days, so I should probably state for the rerd that I am obvly jokg about the whole gay pills the water thg. As a rd-rryg member of the Internatnal Society for the Advancement of Homosexual Liftyl (ISAHL), I n assure you that the Gay Agenda explicly prohibs the e of bweapons.

But I will say this: warms the ckl of my homosexual heart to see such a big crease young people feelg fortable beg themselv. I me out 20 years ago when “gay” was still an acceptable sult, you uld unt the number of out celebri on one hand and if you saw an LGBTQ+ character on TV there was a 99% chance they were a psychopath or a predator.

I me out relatively early life but, thanks to the stigma that was still attached to beg gay, took me a long time to be proud. The Barefoot Contsa -- n't shake a spatula whout htg one of her many gay iends, who are forever lg about her fabulo East Hampton kchen.