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While Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe has taken the LGBT agenda into account for years – one of the main characters in the franchise’s latest film, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”, subtly carries a “Pride” pin on its jacket throughout the film – now Marvel Comics is entering the fray.

This month, Marvel unveiled its latest addition, Escapade, a transgender mutant hero, Screen Geek reported.

The character will appear in the upcoming cartoon “Marvel Voices: Pride # 1”, written by Charlie Jane Anders and designed by artists Ro Stein and Ted Brandt. The new series debuts in June.

Escapade – whose character name is Shela Sexton – is also expected to appear in an upcoming installment of the comic book series “New Mutants” this fall.

The newly-emerged superhero “has the ability to instantly change physical location with another person or act with any specific physical or abstract trait such as possessions, organizational status, skills, superhuman powers, and even situations,” according to ComicBook.com.

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Anders, who identifies as transgender, celebrated the transgender superhero.

“I’ve loved the Marvel Universe for as long as I can remember, and I may not be able to sing the Spider-Man cartoon theme in the shower regularly,” Anders told Marvel.com. “So I was so excited to be able to introduce a whole new hero to stand with all my favorites. I hope Escapade and Morgan Red will inspire trans and non-binary people everywhere to believe that they too can fight for justice with the power of creativity and select family. “

Brandt said people “need a hero like Shela Sexton that people can look up to.”

“It’s very exciting to be a part of bringing a new character into Marvel Comics,” Stein added. “Working on Charlie Jane’s script was a lot of fun, and I hope people enjoy reading about Escapade as much as we did putting together her first outing on the site.”

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As for the “Doctor Strange” character mentioned earlier, the actress who played her, Xochitl Gomez, said she was “really happy” to see MCU – which is owned by The Walt Disney Company – provide a platform for America Chavez, who identifies as lesbian.

“I’m about positivity and creativity [but] sometimes I can not ignore it completely, ”Gomez told USA Today about the criticism that some made against Disney and MCU for sneaking a pro-LGBT message into the superhero movie. “I’m grateful to have very supportive fans who are so much louder and more enthusiastic than haters. And it’s really important as I have a really big young fan base to show them that things happen and it’s better to stay strong and keep going and moving on. “

Either way, 16-year-old Gomez told the newspaper she’s happy portraying a lesbian character in the MCU film series and is eager to “grow with her in every aspect.”

“I love that she’s a leader and a problem solver, and she happens to be a lesbian,” Gomez said.

It should come as no surprise that The Walt Disney Company tends to portray multiple LGBT characters in its various projects and platforms. That’s exactly what Disney CEO Bob Chapek and other top brands in the entertainment industry have been saying since they severely reprimanded Florida for its parental rights in the Education Act, which many mistakenly characterize as “Don’t Say Gay Law.”

In a statement last spring, Disney said it plans to push for a complete repeal of legislation banning elementary school educators from teaching pre-K to third-graders about sexual orientation and gender identity.

Karey Burke, president of general entertainment at Disney, said during Disney’s “Reimagine Tomorrow Summit”, an internal conference for staff, that she is the mother of two children, one who identifies as transgender and the other as pansexual, and would like to see “many, many, many LGBTQIA characters” portrayed in Disney movies and TV shows.

Similarly, Vivian Ware, “manager of diversity and inclusion” for Disney, praised the fact that Disneyland in Anaheim, California and Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, have done away with speaker reviews of “ladies and gentlemen” and ” boys and girls “because such sayings can steal” the magical moment “from those who do not identify themselves as explicitly male or female.

“We would not just assume because someone might, in our interpretation, perhaps present themselves as female, that they might not want to be called ‘princess’,” Ware explained. “So let’s think differently about how we really interact with our guests in a meaningful and inclusive way that makes it magical and memorable for everyone.”

Chapek, for his part, swore to Disney staff that he wanted to be “a better ally of the LGBTQ + community” and apologized “for not being the ally you needed me to be,” adding that he know that Disney has “work to do.”

As CBN’s Faithwire has reported, all of this reached a fever level in the spring when Florida lawmakers and Governor Ron DeSantis (R) signed legislation that dissolved a 1967 agreement between the state and Walt Disney World, dissolving the company’s unique, independent state status. Reedy Creek Improvement District. You can read more details about RCID’s origins and its impending demise here.

“I’m not comfortable having a company with their own government and special privileges when that company has committed to attacking the parents in my state,” DeSantis said in late April.

Disney is also not coming out of this fight unscathed with the public.

A new survey shows that public favoritism for the iconic American brand has dropped to just 33%, a dip from the 77% support Disney obtained from another survey conducted in March 2021.

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