⁣Executive Producer Latoya Raveneau says her team has implemented a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” and is regularly “adding queerness” to children’s programming.
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I love Disney’s content. I grew up watching all of the classics. They have been a huge, informative part of my life. But the same time, I had worked at small studios for most of my career and I had heard whispers that “They won’t let you show this a Disney show.” And I’m like “Okay.” So, I was little sus [SIC: suspicious] when I started. But then my experience was bafflingly the opposite of what I had heard on my little pocket of Proud Family Disney TVA. The showrunners were super welcome. Meredith Roberts and the leadership over there have been so welcoming to my not-at-all-secret gay agenda. So I felt like maybe it was that in the past, but I guess something has happened, cause they have turned it around and are going hard. And all of that momentum and that sense that I don’t have to be afraid to have these two different characters kiss in the background. I was basically adding queerness. If you see anything queer in the show… no one would stop me, and no one was trying to stop me.

⁣Disney production coordinator Allen March says his team is committed to “exploring queer stories” and has created a “tracker” to make sure they are creating enough “gender nonconforming characters,” “canonical trans characters,” and “canonical bisexual characters.”
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I’ve had the privilege of working with the Moon Girl team for the last two years. They’ve been really open to exploring queer stories. I’m on the production side, and part of the work that I feel like I can put in is making sure that – we take place in modern-day New York, so making sure that that’s an accurate reflection of New York. So, 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. “All of our gender-nonconforming characters are in the background. So, it’s not just a numbers game of how many LGBTQ+ characters you have. The more centered a story is on a character, the more nuanced you get to get into their story. Especially with trans characters. You can’t see if someone is trans. There’s not one way to look trans. So, the only kind of way to have these canonical trans characters, canonical bisexual characters, is to give them stories where they can be their whole selves.”