In Minnie Mouse's Dress, Right Wingers See a Penis -- and a LGBTQ Conspiracy

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In Minnie Mouse's Dress, Right Wingers See a Penis -- and a LGBTQ Conspiracy
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The right’s push against Disney is all the more ironic considering that the company has skewed conservative almost since its founding in the early 1920s.

a rule banning same-sex dancing in its parks following a four-year extended court battle in 1984, with a patron who had been booted from a dance club for dancing with his boyfriend.

“Disney does not have a great track record on queer representation quite yet,” says Sabrina Mittermeir, PhD, author of who has written extensively on Disney and LGBTQ issues. Though some of its television programming, such as Disney Channel’shas been lauded for its portrayal of queer characters, that has not yet extended to its mainstream film releases. Indeed, it was only after the uproar over the Don’t Say Gay bill that awas put back into the film.

” , that has explicitly referenced the company, and did so only in passing, says Mike Rothschild, author ofAny time you involve any kind of messaging or branding geared towards kids and you are coded to see comms and subliminal messaging in everything, they start looking at these things for the comms and the hidden meaning,” he says. “Then you get these kinds of backlashes against a company that is nominally quite conservative and is not particularly labor friendly.

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