“And I went, ‘What? That can’t be true,’” Burke said. Disney has reportedly reinstated a gay kiss in its upcoming “Toy Story” spinoff, “Lightyear.” Disney/ Pixar 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. The call was part of Disney’s “Reimagine Tomorrow” campaign, according to the video posted on Twitter Tuesday. Its website promises that 50 percent of regular and recurring characters across the Disney universe will come from “underrepresented groups.”
“One transgender child and one pansexual child, and also as a leader.”īurke 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). “I’m here as a mother of two queer children, actually,” Burke said on the call. 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.
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