

SCOOP: Disney corporate president Karey Burke says, "as the mother one transgender child and one pansexual child," she supports having "many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories" and wants a minimum of 50 percent of characters to be LGBTQIA and racial minorities. Now, it’s simply “Hello everyone,” or, “Hello, friends.” Since last summer, they’ve removed all the “gendered greetings,” from their live spiel at the parks, such as saying “ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,” according to additional meeting footage obtained by Rufo.

That said, the entertainment giant has been making changes for some time now. “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.”īurke indicated that her plan is a response to Florida’s “Just Say Gay” law, which prohibits teachers from discussing sexuality and gender identity “in a manner that is not age appropriate” in the classroom for students from kindergarten to third grade.

Rufo and posted to Twitter.īurke said that Disney had only a “handful” of queer leads in their content. Karey Burke, president of Disney’s General Entertainment Content, announced on a company-wide Zoom call Monday that as “the mother of two queer children”-one transgender and one pansexual, she elaborated-she intends to drastically ramp up queer visibility within the Magic Kingdom, increasing characters in Disney productions that are LGBTQIA or other underrepresented minorities by a whopping 50 percent by the end of 2022, according to the New York Post via meeting footage obtained by journalist Christopher F. Within 24 hours after the event, you’ll be connected to our exclusive online dating system where you can send messages to each other without releasing your last name or e-mail address.There’s a lot of change happening in the Mouse House, where Mickey will perhaps no longer be dating Minnie, but rather a gentleman mouse instead.

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