Should kids & family movies have gay characters?

I never said that I support a policy to exclude, as in never show for any reason, such people.

Diversity of any kind is important and should be represented in film. Movies are about representing life. Why should all the characters be straight and none gay? 

Why should there be diversity? Because diversity is part of society and animated films are about dealing with things that we deal with in real life and homosexuality is something that exists in society.

Never. I'm the nicest guy around....

The character inf Beauty and the Beast isnt even gay. It was the director trying to drum up controversy for the film. All eh does is dance with a man. Its not like they are shown kissing, fondling or laying in bed together. If they hadn't mentioned it no one would have thought anything of it.

"and during Disney Park's Gay Days."


So, every day of the year.

It was clear from the get-go that your intentions were the best, so all is well. Having spent the last decade contributing regularly to various political blogs, I know how tempting it can be to get pulled into skirmishes (of which I've certainly had my share) with people like Conspirologist and others on this thread who are quickly revealed to have excluded themselves from the sphere of rational discourse, claiming unassailable authority on matters about which they clearly know nothing, and which are fueled instead by a combination of only supposition, urban legend and old wives' tales, deliberate disinformation and outright hysteria.

But I figure they may also provide a public service in their small ways: during the national debate over marriage equality, for instance, I noticed that the more hysterical opposition became, the more public support for legal equality increased (as, presumably, more and more people concluded, "What a bunch of crackpots...the hell with them and their nonsense"). Plus, the more time the crackpots spend at their keyboards firing off furious messages full of vitriol, the less time they're out in the real world doing serious damage.


       

Not sure, but it definitely explains all those white feathers stuck on Mickey's chin after him and Donald came out of the Haunted Mansion.

There is a difference between transgender and crossdressing though. He still identifies himself as a male in private, but passes off as a human female in public to hide his true identity. Like how Mulan disguised herself to join the army. It wouldn't make sense to call Ping a transgender in that case.