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- LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN REMOVED FROM DISNEY AFTER FUMBLED "DON'T SAY GAY BILL" STANCE - INSI THE MAGIC
- AFTER PROTTS, DISNEY CEO SPEAKS OUT AGAST FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
- DISNEY CEO SAYS PANY OPPOS 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FLORIDA, SEEKS MEETG WH DESANTIS
- DISNEY WORKERS WALK OUT OVER THE PANY'S RPONSE TO SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
LGBTQ+ REPRENTATN REMOVED FROM DISNEY AFTER FUMBLED "DON'T SAY GAY BILL" STANCE - INSI THE MAGIC
Bety and the Beast's Le Fou might be the first character that Disney has openly regnized as beg gay, but that don't mean LGBT people haven't been there all along. * disney stance on gay *
Conservative groups have urged a boytt of Disney over news that the fay-iendly stud would feature s first "exclively gay moment" the live-actn remake of Bety and the Beast. Director Bill Condon told the Brish gay magaze Attu that Le Fou, the bumblg sikick played by Josh Gad, would be portrayed as a gay man.
AFTER PROTTS, DISNEY CEO SPEAKS OUT AGAST FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
* disney stance on gay *
Rsia further announced that Bety and the Beast will be rated 16+ over ncerns that the adaptatn would vlate the untry's "gay propaganda" backlash is overblown for a number of reasons.
Le Fou might be the first character that Disney has openly regnized as beg gay, but that don't mean LGBT people haven't been there all From Harper's BAZAARDisneySean Griff lerally wrote the book on the gay history of Disney. "It's not necsarily gay, but 's fely queer.
"Le Fou might be the first character that Disney has openly regnized as beg gay, but that don't mean LGBT people haven't been there all those unfaiar, there's a subtle difference between those two phras.
DISNEY CEO SAYS PANY OPPOS 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL FLORIDA, SEEKS MEETG WH DESANTIS
Disney CEO Bob Chapek publicly slammg Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill and sayg that he plans to meet wh Gov. Ron DeSantis falls short after the bill passed. * disney stance on gay *
While "gay" refers to people who like members of their same sex, "queer" is a reclaimed term that sprang up amic circl the early 1990s.
DISNEY WORKERS WALK OUT OVER THE PANY'S RPONSE TO SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
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. * disney stance on gay *
It n be hard to fe, but you know queerns when you see Reluctant Dragon, a short produced 1941, is extremely queer, even if 's not necsarily gay.
In the 1948 film, actors Farley Granger and John Dall (both of whom were gay men) played a pair so nvced of their abily to pull off the perfect murr that they ve iends to their apartment to throw a dner party at the scene of the crime.
The Walt Disney Company is now publicly opposg Florida's ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill. * disney stance on gay *
The men were based off real-life killers Leopold and Loeb, although any reference to the characters' homosexualy was exprsed through subtext.
A PSA-style tnal film shown public schools the 1950s, "Boys Beware, " warned that some gay men "rort to vlence" to prey on young boys public rtrooms and public parks. "One never knows when the homosexual is about, " the PSA clar. Filmmaker David Thorpe exam Disney's history of associatg gay men wh villay Do I Sound Gay?, a 2014 documentary on the "gay voice.