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Actor Nathan Lane has shared that his The Birdcage co-star, Robin Williams, was an incredible LGBTQ+ ally who played an essential role in protecting him from being outed during an interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1996. Lane earned a Golden Globe nomination for his role as Albert in the film, a gay man and […]

Fans were not wrong to pick up on queer undercurrents in “The Wizards of Waverly Place”.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Peter Murrieta served as an executive producer and the head writer of Disney Channel’s “Wizards of Waverly Place” for its first three seasons, and he confirmed on the latest episode of the “Wizards of Waverly Pod” podcast that it was the creative team’s intention to make Selena Gomez’s main character openly bisexual. Gomez’s Alex had several male love interests during the show’s run, including Mason (Gregg Sulkin) and Dean Moriarty (Daniel Samonas), but Murrieta wishes she would’ve had a female love interest with the introduction of Stevie Nichols (Hayley Kiyoko) in Season 3. “Easy, easy, easy, easy,” Murrieta said when asked what storyline he wished he could’ve explored. “I wished we could have played more with what was quite obvious to a lot of us was the relationship between Stevie and Alex. But we weren’t able to in that time…it was pretty clear to all of us what that relationship was. That would’ve been fun.”

Toni Collette was unaware of how the LGBTQ+ community championed her performance in Hereditary.