Russell T Davies: family friendly Disney+ marginalises LGBTQ+ voices
Queer as Folk has raised concerns that Disney’s streaming service is marginalising LGBTQ+ voices due to its focus on family friendly programmes.Russell T Davies, who revived Doctor Who and recently wrote Years and Years for the BBC, said he was worried that Disney would become one of the dominant businesses in global television, resulting in niche voices being sidelined by a morally conservative business.He told the Edinburgh television festival: “Disney is out to buy all of these companies and will keep buying them, and then, as a gay man, I’m sitting there going, ‘Well, where is my content?’“My great worry with huge monoliths like that is it’s family orientated, it’s family friendly.”Disney+ launched in the US less than a year ago and has
