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. https://t.co/oFRUiuu9JG
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As a mother of two queer children and a leader, the speaker feels a responsibility to address the lack of queer representation in their content. They were surprised to learn that while there are many LGBTQIA characters, there are only a few queer leads. This realization has prompted them and their colleagues to prioritize creating narratives where gay characters can simply exist without their stories solely revolving around their sexuality. Moving forward, the speaker vows to focus more on this issue and hopes that this moment will prevent any regression in progress.
Speaker 0: I'm I'm here as a mother of of 2 queer children, actually, one transgender child and 1 pansexual child, and and also as a leader. And 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. And, I feel a responsibility to speak, not just for myself, but for them, to all of us. We we had a we had an open forum last week at 20th where, again, the home of of really incredible groundbreaking LGBTQIA stories over the years where, one of our execs stood up and said, you know, we only have a handful of queer leads in our content. And I went, what?
I that can't be true. And I and I and I realized, oh, it it actually is True. We have many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories and and and yet we don't have enough leads, and narratives in which gay characters just just get to be characters, and and not have to be about gay stories. And so, that's been very eye opening for me. And I can tell you, it's something that I feel perhaps had this moment not happened, I as a leader and me as my colleagues would not have focused on.
And and going forward, I I certainly will be more so. I know that we will be, and, and I hope this is a moment where shoot. The 50% of the tiers, Sorry. Coming. We don't we just don't allow each other to go backwards.
