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How boring. And stupid.Lucasfilm has added another retcon to the Star Wars saga, and it is almost as bad and stupid as George Lucas changing the fact that Han Solo shot first in the Tatooine tavern.Luke Skywalker is gay. Canonically, as they say–means that Disney has officially endorsed the claim that the iconic character is gay.In 1977 this would have been a stunning and brave revelation. Today it is dull and silly. A concession to the nutty idea that films should have “representation” for every variation of the human experience.The idea has been floating out there for a while, but...

Disney’s first movie that features an LGBT lead character has bombed at the box office.

Disney’s upcoming adventure film “Strange World” will feature a gay teen romance — the first in an animated feature produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The refreshing nod to inclusivity comes as “Lightyear,” the much-anticipated “Toy Story” spinoff, was reportedly banned in 14 countries over a brief same-sex kiss.

On March 9, LGBTQ employees and allies at Pixar Animation Studios sent a joint statement to Walt Disney Company leadership claiming that Disney executives had actively censored “overtly gay affection” in its feature films. The stunning allegation — made as part of a larger protest over the company’s lack of public response to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill — did not include which Pixar films had weathered the censorship, nor which specific creative decisions were cut or altered. But in at least one case, the statement appears to have made a significant difference. According to a source close to the...

Decades of confidential sexual abuse allegations from within the Boy Scouts of America will spill into public view later today when more than 1,200 of the organization’s “perversion files” are released by order of the Oregon Supreme Court. The files will offer the public an unprecedented look at how suspected molestations were handled by one of the nation’s leading youth organizations from the early 1960s through 1985, a time when awareness of sexual abuse was evolving rapidly. ~snip~ The abuse reports to be released today played a key role as evidence in a landmark Oregon lawsuit in 2010 that resulted...

A survey of news stories in seven English-speaking countries conducted by the Family Research Institute shows that incidents of teacher-pupil sex are most often perpetrated by male homosexual teachers. Overall, 43 percent of teachers who made the news for having sex with their pupils over the last 27 years were homosexual. Homosexual teachers violated 1,925 (56 percent) of the 3,457 pupil-victims. Women were 11 percent of perpetrators, but a heterosexual female teacher was least apt to have sex with pupils, Christian Newswire reported Thursday. Lexis-Nexis was searched from 1980 through 2006 uncovering 902 teachers who had sex with pupils. Teachers...

(CBS 3) FLORIDA One woman revealed her darkest secret, so she can help parents and especially their children. At age 12 she was molested by her babysitter. It was so shocking, she barely understood it. She talked about the incident with CBS 3 Anchor Pat Ciarrocchi. When you see a blonde and beautiful Lauren Book walking a Florida beach, you wouldn't know she survived years of sexual abuse. "Do I run and tell my Mom and Dad? I was too embarrassed to tell my Mom and Dad at the time,” she said. At the time, Lauren was 12. It was...

(CBS) SAUK VILLAGE A family speaks out about a student's fear after police question an employee at a south suburban grade school for allegedly taking indecent photos of the boy. Police in Sauk Village are working with Strassburg Elementary School officials after a student's father identified three inappropriate pictures. CBS 2's Kristyn Hartman reports a co-worker of the person of interest brought picture evidence forward to police. The father of the alleged victim said there were signs that something was amiss, mainly when his son's grades had fallen considerably. On Wednesday, members of the family stood with signs in front...

NEPTUNE BEACH, FL -- A First Coast man is behind bars after police say he posed online as a 16-year old girl to lure a teen victim into forced sex. 27-year-old Travus Earl Belden is charged with attempted sexual battery on a minor, false imprisonment, and battery. His alleged victim -- a 14-year old Neptune Beach boy. Police who arrested Belden say he told them he was planning to harm the boy. "He (Belden) said that his intentions were sexual and violent in nature and he intended to do the young boy harm," said Neptune Beach Sergeant Ryan Hall. Police...

Pedophile's victims hail verdict CODY CHEUNG was 12 when his piano teacher, Neal Richard Winter, sexually abused him. It continued for five years while Winter ingratiated himself with Mr Cheung's family but, ashamed and afraid, he kept quiet. Yesterday Mr Cheung wept as Winter was found guilty of 27 of 32 sexual offences against him and two other boys - including intercourse with two, then 12 and 14 - whom he tutored at his home between 1992 and 2002. The jury could not reach a verdict on five charges. The Herald can now reveal there are many other victims, two...

The Maryland Jesuit Province has found that a 2003 accusation of sexual abuse against a priest who taught at Georgetown Preparatory School is "substantially true," according to letters sent to parents of students and alumni of the private school in North Bethesda. The Rev. Garrett "Gary" Orr, who was investigated but not charged by Montgomery County police, is on a leave of absence and has been barred from assignments at schools and parishes, the Very Rev. Timothy Brown, the Jesuit provincial head, said in a letter to the Rev. William L. George, president of Georgetown Prep. "It is with a...

A 42-year-old North Carolina AIDS activist, who said his highest priority was talking to kids about the disease, has been busted, along with his roommate for raping a 13-year-old boy. Ricky Odell Yow, 42, the founder of Global Wheel of Hope, an organization that performs AIDS-HIV education in schools and who just last month was the subject of a heart-rending feature story in the Greensboro News & Record, is now being held on $1.5 million bond after being charged with five counts of taking indecent liberties with a child, three counts each of a first-degree sex offense with a child,...

CONTACT: Gary Glenn 989-835-7978 Professor David Halperin 734-647-5884 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, brings back “How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality & Initiation” family group renews criticism of tax-funded college class “How to be Gay” U-M catalogue calls class “an experiment in the very process of initiation it hopes to understand.” ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A statewide family values group Monday renewed its criticism of a controversial University of Michigan class — offered this fall for the first time since 2003 — again calling on state lawmakers to pressure university officials to drop the course altogether. The American Family Association...