HollyWeird: Is Hollywood Going Gay and Banning Holidays?

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Is Hollywood Going Gay?

The world is changing into extra woke, and Hollywood is on the entrance of the cost. The left has determined that everybody not white or straight must be within the highlight, so it ought to come as no shock that tv applications are including extra LGBTQ characters of their lineups.

“This year’s study found that of the 775 series regular characters scheduled to appear on scripted broadcast primetime programming for the 2021-2022 season, 92 characters (11.9 percent) are LGBTQ,” GLADD introduced in its 2021-2022 Where We Are on TV report. Just shy of 12% won’t appear to be so much, however it’s practically twice the 7.1% of Americans who establish as “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender or Something Other Than Heterosexual” in a 2021 Gallup ballot. That 11.9% can also be a rise of two.8% over 2020. As GLADD wrote in its 2020 report:

“The growing state of LGBTQ representation on television is a signal that Hollywood is truly starting to recognize the power of telling LGBTQ stories that audiences around the world connect with.”

But over-representation on the display isn’t sufficient. Have you heard the time period heteronormativity? The dictionary defines it as “denoting or relating to a world view that promotes heterosexuality as the normal or preferred sexual orientation.” And, apparently, this can be a unhealthy factor – and that’s an issue for Valentine’s Day.

A bit titled “Valentine’s Day: What’s a Feminist To Do” from Everyday Feminist had this to say about this romantic vacation:

“Heteronormativity and gender roles also rear their ugly heads on Valentine’s Day. Gifts for ‘him’ or ‘her’ are clearly divided and marked and it’s almost impossible to find cards that represent queer couples.”

For the left, Valentine’s Day and Hollywood usually are not homosexual sufficient. In reality, GLADD is pushing to have LGBTQ plots in 50% of all motion pictures by 2024. A fast web search reveals that greater than 30 homosexual motion pictures are popping out this yr.

Does the leisure enterprise have an affect on its viewers? According to the Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment, it completely does. That’s the concept behind the group’s mission to “advance the role of entertainment and performing arts to inspire and drive social change.” Translated into laymen’s phrases by YouTuber Mark Dice, which means pushing to have sure agendas or messages written into the plots.

The affect is being seen all over the place – consider Disney’s Sesame Street and the way it posted a message supporting Pride Month. Propper Daley is an organization that promotes social justice and works with writers, producers, and so forth., to have scenes and plots with a social impression. Founded by Greg Propper and Mark Daley, these two even have ties to the Clintons. Propper, earlier than co-founding the corporate, labored with Hillary in 2016 serving to her with fundraisers for her presidential marketing campaign which included varied A-list celebrities. A number of years in the past, the corporate held a non-public assembly with about 400 writers to encourage them so as to add extra content material targeted on gays, transgender, and different social points equivalent to immigration and abortion.

Planned Parenthood doesn’t wish to be neglected of the social impression motion both. The firm’s Arts and Entertainment Engagement Department seeks to advertise constructive messages about abortions. For instance, the 2014 movie Obvious Child is billed as a romantic comedy a couple of woman getting an abortion on Valentine’s Day.

The message is obvious. Hollywood is getting used to advertise the left’s agenda, and audiences are consuming it up.

Cheers and Jeers

Sometimes, HollyWeird gamers make headlines for foolish or weird happenings, so here’s a assortment of newsworthy doings — honorable and dishonorable — by the tenants of Tinseltown.

Hillary Clinton’s Book to Be Made Into a Movie

Madison Wells has acquired the rights to make a movie adaptation of State of Terror, Clinton’s thriller novel. Clinton and writer Louise Penny will function govt producers and consultants on the film. Hillary might be producing through her HiddenLight Productions, which she based along with her daughter, Chelsea, and Sam Branson. No launch date has been set to date.

Alec Baldwin (Photo by Selcuk Acar/NurPhoto through Getty Images)

Alec Baldwin and Producers of Rust Being Sued by Family

Attorneys for the household of Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer who was shot and killed by Alec Baldwin on the set of Rust, have introduced a wrongful demise lawsuit. This is just the most recent go well with to be filed in opposition to Baldwin and different members of the manufacturing.

Dr. Phil’s Toxic Workplace Environment

First, Ellen DeGeneres was accused of getting a racist and poisonous work setting; now Dr. Phil’s present is within the highlight for a similar alleged offenses. Eleven workers, who advised BuzzFeed News they want to stay nameless for worry of retribution, stated their psychological well being has turn into broken from engaged on the present. One worker even claimed they had been instructed to inform a feminine visitor to not take her prescription “because they wanted her to look unstable and quote-unquote, ‘crazy.’” Phil McGraw – aka Dr. Phil – has denied the costs.

Tune in subsequent week to see what else Tinseltown has deliberate.

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