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cliffelam  ·  4265 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why are there no gay Disney characters?

Hmm, well, I'm not sure there are that many gay (lets take that as short for LGBTU, shall we?) people (parents, teachers, kids, etc) in Disney's target market. I've seen numbers of 4% to 10% of the population (I suspect closer to 4% or lower) as self identifying as gay. That number will be enormously under-rated relative to Disney's target market, so they have even less potential loss of market. You could say that the number is higher b/c some pct of their target market will have self identified gay relatives/friends. But then how many of that segment wants to explain that sort of thing to their children at any one time?

-XC

PS - I still say Apple has a higher responsibility than Disney.