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Disney has been a vocal opponent of Florida’s new Parental Rights Bill. Leaked video footage of a recent Disney staff meeting reveals just how deep the ‘gay agenda’ at the children’s entertainment company goes.

Leaked video footage of a Disney all-hands meeting shows high-level executives and producers discussing a push towards queerness, quotas for LGBT cartoon characters, and a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” inside the company.

Posted on Twitter this morning by City Journal reporter Christopher Rufo, the five short video grabs were recorded during a recent online meeting that addressed the Florida parental rights bill which passed into law this week.

The Push to Normalise Queer Characters

“Our leadership over there has been so welcoming to my not-at-all-secret gay agenda,” announces executive producer Latoya Raveneau during the first video scoop.

Having grown up “watching all of the classics,” Raveneau explained that on joining Disney, she was happily surprised at the permission she was given for “adding queerness” into cartoons, such as having “two [queer] characters kiss in the background”.

Raveneau has worked in writing, animation and production on several popular children’s TV shows, including Puppy Dog Pals (2017-2019), Rise Up, Sing Out (2022), and The Proud Family (2022).

In other footage from the meeting, the president of Disney’s general entertainment content Karey Burke said that “as a mother of two queer children,” she laments that while Disney has “many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories,” not enough of them play a lead role.

Burke says that Florida’s new legislation has motivated her and her colleagues to further normalise “gay characters” in Disney’s storytelling.

Erasing Male and Female in Disney’s Parks

Allen March, a Disney production coordinator, shared that team behind the upcoming television series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur has “been really open to exploring queer stories”.

One of March’s roles was to “put together a tracker of our background characters to make sure that we have the full breadth of expression” of “gender nonconforming characters” in Moon Girl.

“The only way to have these canonical trans characters, canonical asexual characters, canonical bisexual characters is to give them stories where they can be their whole selves,” March told attendees at the meeting.

The online forum also heard from Vivian Ware, a Disney Parks diversity and inclusion manager. She explained that just because someone “may be presenting as female … they may not want to be called ‘princess’.” Ware added:

Last summer we removed all of the gendered greetings in relationship to our live spiels. So we no longer say, “Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.” We’ve provided training for all of our cast members in relationship to that. So now they know it’s, “Hello, everyone,” or, “Hello, friends,” [or] … “Dreamers of all ages”.

An Equality Florida representative also presented during the meeting, telling Disney LGBT staff that those who supported the De Santis bill were seeking to “erase you, criminalise your existence… [and] demonise who you are”.

Incredibly, she also warned that “the next step is to criminalise you and take your kids”.

Non-Woke Disney Employees Push Back

Recently, Disney employees who disagree with the company’s pivot towards radical sexual politics released an Open Letter in Favour of a Politically Neutral Disney. They wrote that “working for The Walt Disney Company is a dream come true,” however:

The Walt Disney Company has come to be an increasingly uncomfortable place to work for those of us whose political and religious views are not explicitly progressive. We watch quietly as our beliefs come under attack from our own employer, and we frequently see those who share our opinions condemned as villains by our own leadership…

As this politicisation makes its way into our content and public messaging, our more conservative customers will feel similarly unwanted. You can only preach at or vilify your audience for so long before they decide to spend their money elsewhere.

Disney staff, shareholders and and customers are invited to sign the open letter.

Christopher Rufo, who released today’s leaked videos, has been tracing Disney’s trajectory into wokeness for over a year. Last May, he broke a story that went mainstream, exposing Disney’s ‘Reimagine Tomorrow’ training program.

‘Reimagine Tomorrow’ seeks to school Disney employees about America’s “long history of systemic racism and transphobia” and coerce them into compensating for it in their role at the popular children’s entertainment empire.