Disney Under Fire From Conservatives For ‘Pushing a Progressive LGBT Agenda’
starobserver.com.auDisney is under fire once again, this time from conservatives in response to the “leaked” videos of the entertainment company “pushing a progressive LGBT agenda on employees.” In the videos, obtained by conservative journalist Christopher F.
Rufo, Allen March, a production coordinator, talks about how Disney is really interested in exploring queer storylines and how he created a tracker to make sure the shows are representing a diverse spectrum of LGBTQI characters. “Especially with trans characters.
You can’t see if someone is trans. There’s not one way to look trans. So the only kind of way to have these canonical trans characters, canonical asexual characters, canonical bisexual characters is to give them stories where they can be their whole selves.”SCOOP: Disney production coordinator Allen March says his team is committed to "exploring queer stories" and has created a "tracker" to make sure they are creating enough "gender nonconforming characters," "canonical trans characters," and "canonical bisexual characters." pic.twitter.com/ddSzw4aqQv— Christopher F.
Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 29, 2022Also featured in the video is Disney’s corporate president, Karey Burke, who talks about how they have noticed that there are very few queer leads in Disney content. “That’s been very eye-opening for me.
