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Fresh off its contention with Florida’s Parents Rights (AKA “Don’t Say Gay”) bill, the Disney Company has released its “gayest movie yet” for young audiences, complete with an androgynous main star.
A trailer for the new live-action movie Better Nate than Ever features actor Rueby Wood portraying “Nate Foster,” who dreams of becoming a broadway star.
Far-leftists at The Daily Beast dubbed the film Disney’s “Gayest Kids Movie Yet,” suggesting there will be even gayer content to come, and described it as “gloriously queer-positive,” which is a weird thing to say about a movie geared towards children.
According to the Beast, the main character could discover he’s gay one day:
There are hints that Nate is likely going to realize he is gay one day, which is obvious to everyone, though that label is never articulated. Not everyone at age 13 is capable of processing or understanding that about themselves; I certainly was not. But it is a film about how cool that could be for him. It is a film about following your dreams, finding your tribe, and learning that there are people out there who will be ecstatic to love you for who you are, as you are. It is a film about the gorgeous, unbreakable bond between a gay boy and his single aunt.
The movie’s openly gay director, Tim Federle, told Out Magazine he purposely made the story’s protagonist queer-curious.
“When I was 13, I did not have the word for it yet, I just had the hunch and I felt different but I was also excited about it because I thought that that queer element of my identity made me see the world in a different lens that was completely not adult,” Federle tells Out about the intentionality of main character Nate knowing he’s queer and different than everyone else in his life, but still not knowing quite exactly what it is called just yet. “It was about identity and expression and creativity and emotionality. Nate doesn’t say the word because Nate’s still figuring it out in real-time. And I do think it’s a very adult prism to want to put labels on people, and that the fundamental experience of growing up is that you get to try on a lot of different hats until you find the one that fits.”
The Gay Times reports, “In the original novel, which Federle also wrote, Nate is routinely bullied for being gay and is often met with homophobic slurs from the high school jocks, although he admits he’s “undecided” on his sexual orientation.”
The movie’s release comes as the Walt Disney Corporation found itself at the center of a groomer controversy after coming out against the Florida bill banning teachers from discussing sexuality with K-3 students, with Disney CEO Bob Chapek eventually voicing his opposition to the bill.
The film also comes after footage surfaced of Disney execs discussing the company’s “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” during a virtual meeting, where Disney corporate president Karey Burke complained, “We have many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories and yet, we don’t have enough leads.”
SCOOP: Disney corporate president Karey Burke says, "as the mother [of] one transgender child and one pansexual child," she 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. pic.twitter.com/oFRUiuu9JG
— Christopher F. Rufo
(@realchrisrufo) March 29, 2022
The groomer film has been available on the Disney+ streaming platform since the beginning of April.