According to a groundbreaking new undercover investigation by James O’Keefe, Disney is doubling down on its commitment to ensuring that children are constantly exposed to LGBT content—they’re just being quiet about it. The video was released online on July 3.
“It’s the unspoken thing for children to see LGBTQ content,” Walt Disney’s Creative Marketing Director—and drag queen—Amit Gurnani told an undercover investigator using a hidden camera. “[Disney CEO] Bob Iger is not axing LGBTQ content at all.” When asked if Disneyland might soon feature drag queens, Gurnani replied: “I’d love to get a drag queen at Disneyland…I’m sure that would happen at some point.”
Interestingly, although O’Keefe’s video racked up 1.7 million views on X, it made less of a splash than previous exposés of the biggest name in children’s entertainment. That’s because it is no longer shocking: Disney’s decision to “queer” their content is now a matter of public record. In fact, even liberal late night host Bill Maher recently referenced Disney’s “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” in a monologue denouncing the entertainment industry’s targeting of children with sexual content.
Thus, O’Keefe’s new report is not surprising to those of us who have been tracking the trajectory of children’s entertainment and the political leanings of Disney executives. When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis passed the Parental Rights in Education legislation in 2022, for example, Disney mobilized to back the LGBT movement.
Executives hosted an all-hands meeting called the “Reimagine Tomorrow Conversation Series,” in which executive producer Latoya Raveneau stated that Disney was implementing a “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” and “adding queerness” to all children’s content. Production coordinator Allen Martsch announced the creation of a “tracker” to ensure that the company is creating enough “canonical trans characters, canonical asexual characters, [and] canonical bisexual characters.”
