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.”
