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Disney exec wants half its characters to be LGBTQIA, minorities by end of year
nypost ^ | 3/30/2022 | joshua rhett miller

Posted on 03/30/2022 9:39:00 AM PDT by bitt

A Disney executive has vowed to drastically increase inclusivity in its productions, promising that at least 50 percent of its characters will be LGBTQ or racial minorities by the end of the year.

Karey Burke, president of Disney’s General Entertainment Content, said the company must do more to make its content more inclusive in a company-wide Zoom call Monday that was later posted to Twitter.

“I’m here as a mother of two queer children, actually,” Burke said on the call. “One transgender child and one pansexual child, and also as a leader.”

Burke said she supports featuring “many, many” characters who are LGBTQIA, which stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex, and asexual (or allies).

By the end of the year, Burke said she wants at least half of the entertainment giant’s characters to be LGBTQIA or racial minorities.

The Disney honcho said she had been dismayed to learn from a colleague that the company only had a “handful” of queer lead characters in its content.

“And I went, ‘What? That can’t be true,’” Burke said. “And I realized it actually is true. 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.”

The call was part of Disney’s “Reimagine Tomorrow” campaign, according to the video posted on Twitter Tuesday.

The new diversity push comes as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Florida HB 1557 into law Monday despite claims its discriminatory. The legislation bans Florida teachers from discussing LGBTQ topics like sexual orientation or gender identity with students unless they’re in the fourth grade or higher.

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1 posted on 03/30/2022 9:39:00 AM PDT by bitt
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To: bitt

JUST SAY “NO”


2 posted on 03/30/2022 9:39:27 AM PDT by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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To: bitt
Old Ben is not a psychiatrist, and I don't play one on TV.

But I;m certain this lady is a crazy as a shtthouse rat.

3 posted on 03/30/2022 9:40:52 AM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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Revealed: How the CIA helped Disney conquer Florida and buy super-cheap land that is ‘above the law’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2309291/How-CIA-helped-Disney-conquer-Florida-buy-super-cheap-land.html


4 posted on 03/30/2022 9:42:10 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: bitt

Why is there any sexuality in a kids show?


5 posted on 03/30/2022 9:43:13 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: bitt

LGBTQIA..m.i.c....k.e.y....m.o.u.s.e

SMH


6 posted on 03/30/2022 9:43:32 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: bitt

As I told everyone on the day of the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling, “This just opened Pandora’s Box. They are not going to stop at gay marriage.”


7 posted on 03/30/2022 9:43:32 AM PDT by Restless
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To: bitt

Disney exec wants to lose 1/2 it’s viewers by end of year. May they go bankrupt defending their immoral indescent woke agenda


8 posted on 03/30/2022 9:43:44 AM PDT by Bob434
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“I’m here as a mother of two queer children, actually,” Burke said on the call. “One transgender child and one pansexual child, and also as a leader.”

This woman is certifiably insane. But then again, much of our world today is mad. It's almost as if aliens seeded our atmosphere with something nefarious and are conducting experiments. I'm halfway serious here.
9 posted on 03/30/2022 9:44:44 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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Why stop at 50% why not 100%? Then people could feel a little goofy every day!


10 posted on 03/30/2022 9:49:32 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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HALF by the end of 2022?

Hell, stroll through any department store, Target, Walmart, etc and look at the ads and posters and you will learn that straight white people constitute 10% of the population. At most.


11 posted on 03/30/2022 9:50:06 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Sorry, I’m not a biologist.”)
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To: bitt

Well, Mickey and Minnie are black! Pluto is yellow, Goofy is black as well.


12 posted on 03/30/2022 9:53:42 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND NEVER GO BACK.)
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Disney exec wants half its characters to be LGBTQIA, minorities by end of year

So they’re cutting back then.


13 posted on 03/30/2022 9:54:33 AM PDT by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
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To: 2nd Amendment

LOL, I was wondering what “pansexual” meant. Does her child like to have sex with everything?? That’s what the Greek word “pan” means. Animal, vegetable, mineral?

Actually, I don’t want to look it up and find out what she means by that. I’ll leave well enough alone in the interests of my stomach.

All I can say is, those poor children!


14 posted on 03/30/2022 9:56:47 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: bitt

then half of their movies will fail.

It’s that simple.


15 posted on 03/30/2022 10:02:52 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: bitt

Why is it they lump minorities in with the homos? Do they think most minorities are homos?


16 posted on 03/30/2022 10:05:27 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: bitt

half? if its so great go all in

all gay all the time


17 posted on 03/30/2022 10:09:14 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: bitt

Normalizing Freaks Of Nature.


18 posted on 03/30/2022 10:10:45 AM PDT by oil_dude
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To: BenLurkin
Maybe we can offer Disney some help with new movie titles.

Brokeback II: Pinochio's Lying or He's Glad to See You

Beauty Is the Beast: Belle Becomes Butch

Lion King III: Lyin' to Parents about True Self

Snow Black: Witch's Reparations

Alice in B&D Land

Sleeping Obese and Proud

Mark Poppins: Best Nanny

19 posted on 03/30/2022 10:15:21 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: bitt

Will their Chinese masters allow this?


20 posted on 03/30/2022 10:19:35 AM PDT by RedMonqey (Fu%k the Ballot box. Now the Cartridge Box)
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