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It is becoming more clear why LGBT activists are angered at the idea of
having less access to your children.


Source: Disney Parks YouTube

The war between Disney and the state of Florida has been raging on for
weeks ever since the state announced FloridaAs Parental Rights in
Education bill that bans the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity to students in kindergarten through third grade.

The bill has been labeled an anti-grooming bill by Florida Governor Ron DeSantisA press secretary Christina Pushaw while opponents have labeled it
the oDonAt Say Gayo bill. For weeks, there has been fierce debate on
social media about how much of the LGBT agenda should be pushed on
children between the ages of 4-8.


Source: WPTV News u FL Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast YouTube

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During a virtual staff meeting among Disney employees and executives, executive producer Latoya Raveneau, and President of Disney General Entertainment Content Karey Burke, and others admitted to having a not-so- secret agenda to push gay and queer content in programs targeted to
children.

In a video of the meeting that was obtained by journalist Christopher
Rufo, Burke spoke on how important it was for her to have omany, many,
many LGBTQIA characters in our storieso as the mother of transgender and pansexual children.


Karey Burke via Bionic Buzz YouTube

Burke said, oIAm here as a mother of two queer children, actually. One transgender child and one pansexual child. And also as a leader. And that
was the thing that really got me, because I have heard so much from so
many of my colleagues over the course of the last couple weeks in open
forums and through emails and phone conversations. I feel a responsibility
to speak, not just for myself but for them. o

The clip then appears to cut before Burke also says, oThat is up to all of
us. We had an open forum last week at 20th where, again, the home of
really incredible groundbreaking LGBTQIA stories over the years, where one
of our execs stood up and said, aYou know, we only had a handful of queer leads in our content.A And I went, aWhat? That canAt be true!A And I
realized, aOh. It actually is true.'o


Karey Burke via Freeform YouTube

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oEnvironment Of Fear,o Accuse Them Of Vilifying Their Audience

oWe have many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories and yet, we
donAt have enough leads and narratives in which gay characters just get to
be characters and not have to be about gay stories.o Burke said.

oThatAs been very eye-opening for me,o she said. oI can tell you itAs something that I feel that perhaps had this moment not happened, I as a
leader and me as my colleagues would not have focused on. Going forward, I certainly will be more so.o

oI know that we will be and I hope this is a moment where u shoot, the 50 percent of the tears, sorry, are coming u we just donAt allow each other
to go backwards,o the clip concludes.


A Disney production coordinator identified as Allen March, who says he
worked on DisneyAs Moon Girl series also revealed Disney has actually
created a tracker in order to determine whether or not the company is
creating enough LGBTQ+ characters.

March said, oIAve had the privilege of working with the Moon Girl team for
the last two years. TheyAve been really open to exploring queer stories.
IAm on the production side, part of the work that I feel like I can put in
is making sure that u we take place in modern-day New York so making sure
that thatAs an accurate reflection of New York.o

oSo I put together a tracker of our background characters to make sure
that we have the full breadth of expression. We got into a very similar conversation, Karey, of like, aOh. All our gender nonconforming characters
are in the background.A


Source: Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

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Florida Over The StateAs Anti-Grooming Bill

oSo itAs not just a numbers game of how many LGBTQ+ characters you have,o
he stated. oThe more centered a story is on a character the more nuanced
you get to get into their story.o

oEspecially with trans characters, you canAt see if someone is trans.
ThereAs not one way to look trans. So kind of the only 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,o March concludes.


A third video shows Vivian Ware, the Diversity & Inclusion Manager at Walt Disney Parks & Resorts, stating, oLast summer we removed all of the
gendered greetings in relationship to our live spiels.o

She explained, oSo we no longer say, aLadies and gentleman, boys and
girls.A We provided training for all of our cast members in relationship
to that. So now they know itAs, aHello, everyoneA or aHello, friends.'o


Source: Disney Parks YouTube

Ware continued saying, oWeAre in the process of changing over those
recorded messages, and so many of you are probably familiar when we
brought the fireworks back to the Magic Kingdom, we no longer say, aLadies
and gentlemen, boys and girls,A We say, aDreamers of all ages.'o

oSo I love the fact that itAs opened up the creativity, the opportunity
for our cast members to look at that. We have our cast members working
with merchandise, working with food and beverage, working with all of our guest-facing areas, where perhaps we want to create that magical moment
with our cast members, with our guests,o she said.

Ware then added, oAnd we donAt want to just assume because someone might
be, in our interpretation, may be presenting as female, that they may not
want to be called aprincess.A So, letAs think differently about how do we really engage with our guests in a meaningful and inclusive way that makes
it magical and memorable for everyone.o


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A fourth video features Nadine Smith of Equality Florida specifically discussing FloridaAs Parental Rights in Education bill.

Smith states, oWeAre also reacting from the reality that when they can
erase you and they can criminalize your existence, when they can demonize
who you are, the next step is to criminalize you and take your kids.o

oAnd weAre already seeing that in Texas. So the slippery slope between
these ugly messages emanating from legislative leaders in our state and
then amplified by our governor, whose spokesperson immediately began
calling everyone who opposed this bill agroomersA aka pedophiles.o


In another clip from DisneyAs staff meeting Latoya Ravenau, who is an executive producer for Disney Television Animation revealed how she has
turned the studio into her own personal pocket to insert as much LGBT
content as possible.

The clip, also from Rufo, begins with Raveneau saying, oI love DisneyAs content. I grew up watching all of the classics. They have been a huge informative part of my life. But at the same time, like, I worked at small studios most of my career and IAd heard, you know, you hear whispers.o

oIAd heard things like, aThey wonAt let you show this in a Disney show,A
and IAm like, aOkay.A So I was a little like sus when I started, but then
my experience was baffingly the opposite of what I had head, oshe
continued.


Latoya Raveneau via Christopher F. Rufo Twitter

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oIn my little pocket of Proud Family Disney TVA, the showrunners were
super welcoming . Meredith Roberts and our leadership over there has been
so welcoming to my not-at-all-secret gay agenda,o she declared.

oMaybe it was that way in the past, but I guess something must have
happened in the last, they are turning it around, theyAre going hard, and
then like all that momentum that I felt, that sense of aI donAt have to be afraid to have these two characters kiss in the background.A I was just, wherever I could, just basically adding queerness. If you see anything
queer in the show u no one would stop me, and no one was trying to stop
me.o


Raveneau is currently a director on the new Disney+ series oThe Proud
Family: Louder and Prouder.o It was announced last year that the sequel
to the hit early 2000s cartoon oThe Proud Familyo would feature two mixed-
race gay dads, voiced by Zachary Quinto and Billy Porter.

The fathers would be the adopted parents of a 14-year-old social justice activist who gets bullied due to having two fathers. Another character
named Michael will be voiced by EJ Johnson will be returning to the show
as a non-binary character.


Source: The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder

Raveneau also serves as Executive Producer and writer of the Disney series oRise Up, Sing Outo a show that proudly boasts its LGBT representation
with a character named Amelia who has two lesbian mothers. oRise Up, Sing
Outo is described as a show that aims to deliver inspiring and optimistic messages such as celebrating black hair and exploring names that can be mispronounced or stigmatized.

The show has been criticized for pushing elements of Critical Race Theory
also known as CRT such as teaching children about race-based
microaggressions.


Source: Rise Up, Sing Out Season 1 Episode 3 oSpeak Up!o (2022), Disney
Plus

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In one of their most popular episodes, a dark-skinned character, Gabriel,
is dropped off at school by his mother, whereupon heAs told by a white student, oHey, Gabriel, I didnAt know that was your mom. Your skin is so
much darker than hers.o

oHold it, did that comment make you feel uncomfortable?o, the seriesA lead character, a young black girl named Taniya, suddenly interjects. oThatAs a micro-aggression!o

oA micro-aggression is when someone says or does something that makes you
feel bad / Sometimes just because of your race,o Taniya sings, her added caveat muddying the definition of what constitutes such an act, ascribing
a specific racist intent to what was once defined as an unintentional
action. oBut you know what? HeAs wrong! You should be proud of your skin.
/ ItAs what makes you you.o


Source: Rise Up, Sing Out Season 1 Episode 3 oSpeak Up!o (2022), Disney
Plus

CRT is another polarizing issue that many parents have fought against
teaching to their young children in states like Virginia where opposition
to CRT was a deciding factor in the 2021 Gubernatorial race won by
Republican Glenn Youngkin.

Earlier this month, Pixar (a Disney subsidiary) accused their parent
company of preventing them from allowing LGBT scenes in movies that were
aimed at children, a talking point that led to a huge LGBT backlash
against the company for failing to immediately support progressive
opposition to FloridaAs bill.

The fallout of FloridaAs anti-grooming bill will likely inspire LGBT
activists in Disney to push even more questionable content that will be
aimed at children.

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