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Wyvern
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Well, conservative and family-friendly are two separate things. Disney theme park division actually has a long history of supporting LGBT rights. The most famous example would probably be the annual "Gay Days" event which is held at Disney parks in California and Florida. It's basically a pride event at Disney World (no parade, though.) And just this week, Disney was in the news for adding a lesbian couple to the cast of one of their sitcoms. |
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GracieLizzy
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Yeah Disney as an entity has been (quietly) pro gay rights for a while now. Rantasmo of "Needs More Gay" and the Nostalgia Chick did a good video on it here:
http://blip.tv/nostalgia-chick/nostalgia-chick-rantasmo-disney-needs-more-gay-6545576 Since that video's release there has been a gay couple in a Disney film albeit kind of in a "blink and you'll miss it" way. The guy who runs the store / sauna in Frozen has a husband you see very briefly. Also as someone pointed out Tokyo Disney was less liberal on the issue actually, it was Disney Worldwide that mandated that Tokyo Disney couldn't force one of the couple to wear a Tuxedo. |
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musouka
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This sounds absolutely wonderful. I'll have to keep my eyes peeled next time I make my rounds at my Japanese bookstores.
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TsunaReborn!
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To me any positivity on this subject is
More than welcome but I hope soon that it doesn't need to make the new because it is the norm. |
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zeo1fan
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Like, when I came out of the closet, being gay was the only thing I really talked about for a while. And it kinda got on people's nerves. I'd kept it a secret for so long, that I sort of let it swallow me. People got fed up with me, because I was letting myself be defined by it. But now that I've cooled down; now that I'm not treating it like it's the most important part of me, I get along with people way better. I'm way more laidback. And if the conversation just happens to slip into what kinda dudes I find attractive, nobody cares. Incidentally, I actually find it really interesting to hear about the lens through which straight men view male attractiveness. |
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TsunaReborn!
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^^^
I know what you mean, even though I'm gay myself, I get annoyed then other gays throw it in people's faces. Now I don't tell people and just talk like they know as they'll pick it up eventually. |
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zeo1fan
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Same. I think being chill about stuff is better, anyway. The people I've met who do make a big deal out of it tend to regard me as some sort of victim. 
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TsunaReborn!
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it's always the way
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feuerwerke
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This story is absolutely adorable.
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Echo_City
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Disney hasn't been a promoter of "traditional family values" or anything like that in eons. The Disney of Walt and, to a lesser extent, Roy is ancient history. It'd be interesting if there were a well known, well regarded (ie:"household name") and powerful company today that were openly "right of center" as we haven't had anything like that in the US in decades, the closest that we've gotten to that has been the Koch Brothers 
This doesn't really surprise me, as Samurai Champloo made it abundantly clear that Feudal Japan was a "paradise of man-love second only to Ancient Greece" and when the bros were off gettin' busy with each other, pursuing that "more noble" form of love, what were the gals to do but adapt? As the cliche goes, "Bad habits die hard." |
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