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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.” TRANSCRIPT: 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

Disney’s activism partner Nadine Smith of Equality Florida tells LGBTQ employees that @GovRonDeSantis and @ChristinaPushaw want to “erase you, “criminalize your existence,” and “take your kids”—a wild conspiracy theory that Republicans want to kidnap gay people’s children. TRANSCRIPT: You can look at the comments, you can look at the coverage, but the context is also who is pushing it, what their record is, and what the history is in Florida. You can go back to the 50’s and the Johns committee where the legislature put together a task force whose whole job was to root civil rights workers and any homosexuals out of the universities. And destroyed lives – literally

Disney corporate president Karey Burke says, he supports having “many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories” and wants a minimum of 50 percent of characters to be LGBTQIA and racial minorities. TRANSCRIPT: “I’m here as a mother to two queer children actually, one transgender child and one pansexual child, and also as a leader.” Burke said in the video. “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.

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. TRANSCRIPT: 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.