One of the main writers of Lizzie McGuire, Nina Bargiel, recently did an interview with Feminist Disney and revealed:
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Did you ever think about adding a gay, lesbian, etc. character to the series? Do you think such a story arc and character, at least among today’s media and generally accepting society if not that of the early 00s, could have worked well with a show like Lizzie McGuire?
I believe Disney has just recently done a my-two-moms thing (yay!). We always considered the two guys who owned a chimp (David Rosen, and my brother, Jeremy Bargiel, was the bigger of the two) to be a couple. I think that we’re ready, and I think we were ready then. But the reality is that the writers don’t always get to make those sort of decisions. You work for a GIANT CORPORATION so GIANT CORPORATION makes those decisions for you. (That’s not just Disney, that’s all networks.)
The other thing - allow me to get a little bit Inside Baseball here - is that you have to be incredibly careful of a roll-out when you’re doing something different or new. If you release a show with a gay character, and that show fails, then it’s WE TRIED A SHOW WITH A GAY CHARACTER AND IT FAILED SO NO ONE WANTS TO SEE GAY CHARACTERS. (This works for women, POC, and the like. White-dude shows can fail left and right and people will continue to churn them out.)
http://feministdisney.tumblr.com/pos...r-nina-bargiel
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The TEA she spilt in the last paragraph
Does anyone remember those characters? They were bffs with Lizzie's dad and owned the chimp that helped Matt with his math homework.
