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Disney Vows To Make More Gay Characters
Posted On 31 Mar 2022
A Disney executive vowed more inclusivity in its productions — as the entertainment giant works to make underrepresented groups, such as racial minorities and the LGBTQ community, account for at least 50 percent of its regular characters by the end of the year.
Karey Burke, president of Disney’s General Entertainment Content, said the company must do more to make its content more inclusive in a company-wide Zoom call Monday that was later posted to Twitter.
“I’m here as a mother of two queer children, actually,” Burke said on the call. “One transgender child and one pansexual child, and also as a leader.”
Burke said she supports featuring “many, many” characters who are LGBTQIA, which stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex, and asexual (or allies).
The call was part of Disney’s “Reimagine Tomorrow” campaign, according to the video posted on Twitter Tuesday. Its website promises that 50 percent of regular and recurring characters across the Disney universe will come from “underrepresented groups.”
The Disney honcho said she had been dismayed to learn from a colleague that the company only had a “handful” of queer lead characters in its content.
“And I went, ‘What? That can’t be true,’” Burke said. “And I realized it actually is true. We have many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories and yet we don’t have enough leads and narratives in which gay characters just get to be characters and not have to be about gay stories.”
During the same call Monday, another Disney employee noted how the company has also eliminated the use of gendered pronouns throughout its theme parks last summer as part of its inclusivity efforts.
“Last summer we removed all gendered greetings in relationship to our live spiels,” Disney diversity and inclusion manager Vivian Ware said on the call. “So, we no longer say ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls … It’s hello everyone or hello friends.”
Disney is now in the process of changing recorded messages in parks to match the inclusivity push, Ware said.
“We no longer say ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,” Ware continued. “We say dreamers of all ages.”
The new push aimed at inclusivity comes as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Monday that bans Florida teachers from discussing LGBTQ topics like sexual orientation or gender identity with students unless they’re in the fourth grade or higher.
Disney has denounced the new law and vowed to fight to repeal it.
“Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts, and we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that,” Disney said in a statement Monday.
The statement came after some Disney employees staged walkouts and held protests against the “Don’t Say Gay” bill that’s now law in the Sunshine State.
Burke, meanwhile, got emotional at one point Monday while touting the new push to include more LGBTQIA and minority characters in Disney’s content.
“I hope this is a moment where — shoot, the 50 percent of the tears, sorry, are coming — we just don’t allow each other to go backwards,” Burke told Disney colleagues on the call.
Responding to Burke’s comments during an appearance on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Tuesday, DeSantis said: “It’s just an odd manifestation of their corporate values.
“Why is this the hill to die on?” he asked.
DeSantis also pointed out that Disney conducts cruises to the Dominican Republic, which does not recognize same-sex marriage, and that the company is “fine lining their pockets from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) and all the atrocities that go on there.”
Some commenters on Twitter echoed the governor, accusing Disney of trying to “indoctrinate” children.
“I’m so confused as to why any of this even has to be an issue,” one person wrote. “Never once while watching a Disney movie or any other cartoon dis I ever think, I wonder if they’re gay.”
“Sexuality should be nowhere near my child’s tv shows,” another user wrote. “This is getting way out of hand.”
Original Article: https://nypost.com/2022/03/30/disney-executive-wants-more-lgbtqia-minority-character/
Next, they’ll do a movie where Mickey buttfucks his lover, Donald Duck.
It’s time to boycott Disney’s park’s
All the woke garbage is including all the radical left is imploding! Walt is probably rolling over in his grave!
Those people who have taken over the company are wicked.
At least Mickey and Minnie and Donald and Daisy are heterosexual!! LOL!!!
BETTER KEEP YOU KIDS AWAY FROM DISNEY EVERYTHING!!!
I already have, or anything else disney.
I used to love watching Disneyworld on Sunday nights when I was a kid. That was back when Disney was a good company that had decent shows. Now they’re just another left wing pile of garbage and are only interested in pretending that homosexuality is normal behavior and in brainwashing children into believing their lies. I wouldn’t spend a penny on anything that has to do with Disney nowadays.
I WILL NEVER NEVER GO THERE….
AMERICAN PEOPLE DO YOUR RESEARCH ON THIS SO CALLED COMPANY THAT SHOULD NOT NOT BE TRUSTED FOR SURE.
CHANNEL FOUR OR “NBC” is part of the so called disney theme…
WE NEED TO OPEN OUR EYES FOR SURE….
THE FAR LEFT WE DO NOT NEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
**** disney and all their ******* faggot lovers !!!!
Sure makes you want to make a Disney site a place you don’t want to go to!!!!!!!!!
You have lost what little minds you had. How much of the population do you think is gay? I think this is the stupidest move you have ever done. I’m selling my Disney stock as you will be in the toilet in a few years.
How sick can Disney get I don’t go to the parks anymore they are promoting evil and they are way over exspensive
Sick!!!! Walt Disney is probably rolling over in his grave. I was a 25 year resident of Florida. Been to Disney World many many times. Loved it!!! Took my young Brother and Sister there and then took my 6 year old Niece. We had a Blast. I will NEVER go again or watch any Disney movies as long as they do this WOKE CRAP. This is NOT what Walt Disney stood for!!!!!
My family and I will no longer be attending, watching, or purchasing any Disney functions or products in the future.
Very good! These woke bastards need to realize that the majority of people could care less about their agenda
SO, they disregard the MAJORITY of LEGAL, PATRIOTIC AMERICANS to “BOW TO THE FEW”…..makes one wonder if they have investigated to determine the number of GAYS versus NON-GAY PEOPLE in America…AND we are beyond Sick and Tired of having this IMMORAL, PERVERTED CRAP shoved at us, THEREFORE, MANY OF WE THE SICK AND TIRED ARE WRITING OFF “DISNEY INSOFAR AS THEIR PARKS AND THEIR THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS”! LET’S SEE HOW THIS WORKS OUR FOR THEM!
There are a lot of gay (happy) people in this country. Not the ones who bastardize the use of a beautiful word in an attempt to make their deviant lifestyle more acceptable. i.e. don’t support queers by calling them “gay”.
Walt would be turning over in his grave if he knew what they plan to do. The realization that only 3 % of the population of the US are of the LGBTQ, every time you watch any series or movie it seems they must have at least one if not more that a re of the LGBTQ persuasion. No one hates these people but they seem to try to permeate every aspect of every situation. If you want athletes to compete as Transgenders then let them compete in a new category of competition just as men compete with men and women with women but you can’t change your DNA, women have the XX Chromosome and Men, XY and no matter what chemicals you ingest you can’t change your DNA.
It’s a Woke World, It’s a Woke World, It’s a Woke World After all it’s a Woke, Woke, Woke.
All three of my adult children have told me that Disney and Disney products are no longer allowed in their homes – what a shame
What does Disney Corp actually hope to gain by all this crap? When they devalued Song of the South, I went online and bought a DVD of it. It had been many many years since I last saw it. I watched it and found nothing wrong with the movie. It had a great message to give to the viewers. Then low and behold, they are retooling Splash Mountain! REALLY??????? To the Princess and the Frog, no fun there and again REALLY?????? This magical place is mainly for the CHILDREN…GOT THAT DISNEY??? For the children! God help our country!
It’s a blessing that Walt is not here to witness this crazy society in which the extreme is normal and what was normal is frowned upon or labeled “racist.”
As Sandra said, I wish Walt Disney was still here! He would not approve of these things, I am sure! It is too bad that he left us at age 65, in December, 1966.
This wouldn’t be happening if Trump was in office
This is not what a family want to see in Disney films!! NOT AT ALL!! I love Disney,Keep it family friendly,I don’t want to that to explain that to my grandchildren.if you do this I will boycott Disney from my family!!
this gay crap is getting tyring enough
you want to be gay so be gay but
stop shoving it down our throats,
you can get married, have children like the rest of the normal people/ gay paradas, jobs,
enough of it don’t care if you like it up the ass or another female eating your pussy enough
and rainbow flags like pre schoolers
These tranny-loving faggots over at Disney need to get themselves killed!
Completely finished with Disney. Don’t trust their movies and etc for the young!
Too Bad you can’t impeach CEOs! The State of Fla. should try to get Disney out of their state. Give them to New York–Better yet China
One more reason to not spend a dime on anything Disney.
boycott there are many good theme parks in orlando. there will be no disney products near my kids.
Good bye Disney!
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