Film cric Christian Toto reflects on the poor box office performance of Disney movie "Strange World" and whether there's a nnectn to the film's openly gay teenage character.
Contents:
- ‘STRANGE WORLD’ IS DISNEY’S FIRST ANIMATED MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD. WHY IS IT BEG BURIED?
- ‘STRANGE WORLD’ IS DISNEY’S FIRST ANIMATED MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD. WHY IS IT BEG BURIED?
- PRO-GAY DISNEY FILM FLOPS AT BOX OFFICE: 'STOP MAKG EVERYTHG SEXUAL'
- FLORIDA TEACHER SAYS SHE IS UNR VTIGATN AFTER SHOWG 5TH GRA CLASS DISNEY MOVIE WH GAY CHARACTER
- LIST: 'STRANGE WORLD' REVIEWS ABOUT DISNEY'S FIRST OUT GAY, CHARACTER, BIRACIAL QUEER TEEN
- DISNEY DROPS NEW ‘STRANGE WORLD’ TRAILER AS BEN SHAPIRO SLAMS STUD’S SO-LLED ‘GAY AGENDA’
- DISNEY REFED TO CUT GAY SCEN ‘LIGHTYEAR,’ MALAYSIA’S CENSORS SAY
‘STRANGE WORLD’ IS DISNEY’S FIRST ANIMATED MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD. WHY IS IT BEG BURIED?
A fifth-gra teacher said she is beg vtigated by the Florida Department of Edutn after she showed her stunts "Strange World," a 2022 animated Disney movie featurg a character who is biracial and gay. * gay disney movie 2022 *
The dispirg explanatn uld be that Disney, fearg uproar om all matters of the right, has chewed any big promo s more homogeno films receive.
‘STRANGE WORLD’ IS DISNEY’S FIRST ANIMATED MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD. WHY IS IT BEG BURIED?
From exclively gay moments "Bety and the Beast" to DeSantis and Disney World, Disney has a long and strange history wh the LGBTQ muny. * gay disney movie 2022 *
Strange World was never sted to be a hot-button issue wh anti-gay, racist, fossil fuel-lovg punds.
Strange World was never sted to be a hot button issue wh anti-gay, racist, fossil fuel-lovg punds. First Openly Gay Character.
PRO-GAY DISNEY FILM FLOPS AT BOX OFFICE: 'STOP MAKG EVERYTHG SEXUAL'
The upg adventure film will reportedly feature a gay teen romance — the first an animated feature produced by Disney. * gay disney movie 2022 *
It featur a gay teen romance. Prr to the movie's openg, nservative mentator Ben Shapiro warned parents about Disney's ongog ph at their "not-at-all-secret gay agenda" to target children. 15, Shapiro wrote: "As Disney begs phg 'Strange World' for next week's release, here's the remr that their 'not-at-all-secret gay agenda' to target kids is ongog.
As Disney begs phg "Strange World" for next week's release, here's the remr that their "not-at-all-secret gay agenda" to target kids is ongog. Crics vociferoly mislabeled the parental rights legislatn, which took effect July 1, as the "Don't Say Gay bill, " spe the word "gay" beg absent om the text. And next year is gog to be even the first major stud gay rom-, to queer-clive horror, to Harry Styl playg a queer p, the next year will have a ton of great LGBTQ+ ntent on the big screen.
Billy Eichner wrote and starred this gay rom- wh an all LGBTQ+ prcipal st, cludg Bowen Yang, Ts Madison, Guillermo Diaz, and Le Macfarlane as Eichner's love tert.
FLORIDA TEACHER SAYS SHE IS UNR VTIGATN AFTER SHOWG 5TH GRA CLASS DISNEY MOVIE WH GAY CHARACTER
* gay disney movie 2022 *
The movie, which is beg lled the first gay romantic edy by a major stud, jt wrapped filmg and is schled to h theaters Augt 22, 2022. Tells the story of bt iends Jane and Lucy, when one of them gets a promotn to move to London and the other out as gay. The Walt Disney Company is currently hot water for supportg legislators who are behd Florida's current "Don't Say Gay" bill, which will ban tors om talkg about LGBTQ+ issu schools.
The pany got to even hotter water after s CEO, Bob Chapek, released a statement sayg that the pany ma a bigger impact by tellg "diverse stori" and clive ntent than by standg agast the bill or g s money to bat, many current and former Disney and Pixar employe are speakg out, allegg that the pany has censored same-sex acttractn om movi, and mandg that the pany do more to help real-life LGBTQ+ people while makg money off of their fact, Disney has been happy to make billns of dollars off of LGBTQ+ people for years, g gay artists, actors, wrers, and performers to create many of their most inic characters, shows, and movi. Here's a look at some of the gay, bisexual, and lbian people who ma Disney what is isn't even to mentn the thoands of LGBTQ+ artists, wrers, directors, animators, actors, micians, and others who've worked on Disney shows and movi over the years, makg the pany what is today. The Danish thor was likely both gay and asexual, and Disney lov to e his materials to make some of their biggt hs.
A fifth-gra teacher said she is beg vtigated by the Florida Department of Edutn after she showed her stunts “Strange World, ” a 2022 animated Disney movie featurg a character who is biracial and gay.
LIST: 'STRANGE WORLD' REVIEWS ABOUT DISNEY'S FIRST OUT GAY, CHARACTER, BIRACIAL QUEER TEEN
DeSantis and other supporters phed the measure as a form of “parental rights, ” while opponents said tried to erase LGBTQ people om schools and dubbed the law “Don’t Say Gay. The movie also featured Disney’s first-ever out-gay character, voiced by edian Jaboie Young-Whe. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.
In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.
DISNEY DROPS NEW ‘STRANGE WORLD’ TRAILER AS BEN SHAPIRO SLAMS STUD’S SO-LLED ‘GAY AGENDA’
Gay Water, however, is out and proud. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.
“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self, ” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.
He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.
DISNEY REFED TO CUT GAY SCEN ‘LIGHTYEAR,’ MALAYSIA’S CENSORS SAY
“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.
“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay, ” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.
” Ever sce former CEO Bob Chapek cricized the ernor’s homophobic and transphobic Parental Rights Edutn Act — which forbids discsn of genr and sexual inty public schools — DeSantis and his supporters have repeatedly acced the entertament nglomerate of “echog Democrat propaganda, ” and engaged a vic legal battle over Disney World’s self-erng tax stat that’s proved a huge headache for the state. To hear DeSantis tell , you’d thk Disney World was a paradise for gays, and Mickey himself threw the first brick at Stonewall.