“These people don’t care about protecting children, they care about protecting ‘childhood innocence’-ignorance romanticized a bullshit fantasy made up by adults, reflecting every adult prejudice.”
“Random drag queens in public spaces pose exactly 0 threat to children,” Natalie Wynn, a popular trans YouTuber, remarked on this controversy in a tweet. “It’s OK to just say you don’t want kids to go to drag shows because you don’t want them to see men dressed up like women,” wrote conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey in a tweet, adding that “men pretending to be women should be celebrated, especially by children.” Even Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene jumped in on the war against drag saying she was going to propose a bill making it illegal for children to be exposed to drag performances. In a direct rebuttal to Pride Month celebrations taking place across the country, conservatives have also denounced LGBTQ+ spaces as innately depraved and unfit for children. It should be more normalized, but I’m glad we are making those steps.” “I think it’s a shame that it’s such a story. “It’s great that it’s back in the film,” actor Chris Evans, who voices the character Buzz Lightyear, told Vanity Fair at last week’s world premiere. In a Townhall column titled “When a Kiss Is Not Just a Kiss,” talk radio host Larry O’Connor pushed back against a Perez Hilton tweet noting that Lightyear is “banned in multiple countries over a gay kiss. But the focus of these attacks has since shifted from schools, evolving into much broader attacks on LGBTQ+ people in all public spaces. The revival of this age-old smear was adopted by some of the right’s most popular pundits and politicians. This campaign has also escalated in conservative media in March, far-right pundits began maligning educators who talk about gender identity or sexual orientation as “groomers” who seek to prey on schoolchildren. As state legislatures tee up hundreds of anti-LGBTQ+ proposals this year, a study from the Human Rights Campaign declared that 2022 could be the most anti-trans legislative year in history, per USA Today. Over the past three months, the biggest names in conservative media have resurrected an all-out war against LGBTQ+ Americans, attempting to trigger a moral panic that is growing more extreme and more widespread with each passing week. Shapiro’s portrayal of LGBTQ+ people and relationships as inherently lewd or pornographic, and thus, inappropriate for children, has become the norm among many conservatives. “That this must be said demonstrates that our society is in a state of moral collapse.”
What may be appropriate for adults is not appropriate for children,” the podcaster continued.
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His post included a screenshot from the upcoming animated movie that features two lesbian parents embracing each other. “Disney works to push a ‘not-at-all-secret gay agenda’…Parents should keep that in mind before deciding whether to take their kids to see ‘Lightyear,’” tweeted Ben Shapiro, one of the most popular right-wing podcast hosts.
The conservative outrage machine has picked its next target and it’s about to hit theaters: Disney-Pixar’s Lightyear, the Toy Story spin-off movie out Friday.