Daily Beast Says New Disney+ Movie May Be Disney’s most gay-positive and encouraging

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Breitbart News noted: "While the movie never affixes the label of 'gay' to its young star, according to the Daily Beast, the movie is an homage to every gay kid who loves stage plays and musicals."

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Rueby Wood, the film's 15-year-old star, is frequently seen in gender-bending garb. At the film's premier, he wore a black frock festooned with a colorful rock necklace, fruit-tart finger rings, and colorful, long fake fingernails."

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The Beast reported: "'Better Nate Than Ever' ... just may be the most gay-positive and encouraging youth programming that Disney has ever released." Kevin Fallon, the senior entertainment reporter for the Beast, raved over the movie's "gloriously queer-positive" bent.

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"The film, in the most beautiful sign of progress and the greatest compliment I can give, is something I desperately wish I had when I was growing up," Fallon gushed. "It's a love letter to kids – to theater kids, and most specifically theater kids who were made to feel shy or ashamed about who they were and how they acted, and who probably, almost 100 percent of the time, grew up to be gay."

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The film is directed by Tim Federle, creator of "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series," and he explained this new movie is specifically meant to further the LGBT agenda. "In my several years with the company now, I was heartened to see we won the [LGBT group] GLAAD award, we had the first-ever same gender kiss," Federle told Variety. "And what I wanted to bring to this was a slightly younger POV of a middle-schooler discovering. For me, who didn't grow up with a movie like this, I know this movie would have made me feel seen and a lot less alone."

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