{"id":1928320,"date":"2023-05-10T19:12:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T23:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-invites-drag-queen-to-the-little-mermaid-world-premiere\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T19:13:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T23:13:41","slug":"disney-invites-drag-queen-to-the-little-mermaid-world-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-invites-drag-queen-to-the-little-mermaid-world-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney invites drag queen to &#8220;The Little Mermaid&#8221; premiere."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdisney-invites-drag-queen-to-the-little-mermaid-world-premiere%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1928320&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Disney Invites Drag Queen Nina West to The Little Mermaid Premiere<\/h2>\n<p>Disney continues to push LGBTQ representation in its entertainment for children, as evidenced by its recent invitation to drag queen Nina West to the world premiere of its live-action The Little Mermaid. During the blue-carpet festivities, West, whose real name is Andrew Levitt, was seen cavorting with actress Melissa McCarthy, who plays Ursula the Sea Witch and has stated her performance was inspired by drag queens.<\/p>\n<h3>A Disney Staple<\/h3>\n<p>West thanked Disney in an Instagram post, saying, \u201cThank you, @disney @disneystudios @disneyanimation @disneylittlemermaid for having me tonight and allowing me to share in such a magical celebration.\u201d West is quickly becoming a Disney staple following his appearance in the Disney+ LGBTQ Pride concert in 2021, where he hosted the live-stream video that featured other drag queens plus performances of popular Disney songs re-imagined with LGBTQ themes.<\/p>\n<h3>Drag Culture in Disney<\/h3>\n<p>Drag culture is becoming a central component of Disney\u2019s entertainment for children. In 2021, a division of Disney hosted a drag queen story hour event aimed at the children of employees, with the intention of celebrating the \u201cgender fluidity of childhood\u201d while providing kids with \u201cunabashedly queer role models.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News reported, Melissa McCarthy recently revealed her character in The Little Mermaid has drag queen roots, saying she \u201c100 per cent\u201d drew inspiration from drag queens for her turn as the voice-stealing villain.<\/p>\n<h3>The Little Mermaid Struggles<\/h3>\n<p>The Little Mermaid, which opens in cinemas May 26, is proving to be a tough sell for Disney. The movie\u2019s first full trailer is massively unpopular, garnering more than 1 million \u201cdislikes\u201d on YouTube less than a week after its unveiling during the Oscars in March.<\/p>\n<p>Follow David Ng on Twitter @HeyItsDavidNg. Have a tip? Contact me at dng@breitbart.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it continues to aggressively push LGBTQ ideology in its entertainment for children, the Walt Disney Co. invited drag queen Nina West to the world premiere of its live-action The Little Mermaid on Monday at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. During the blue-carpet festivities, Nina West \u2014 whose real name is Andrew Levitt \u2014 cavorted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1928321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[6962,6344,7069,4477,11606,10555,7291],"class_list":["post-1928320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-the","tag-disney","tag-drag","tag-invites","tag-mermaid","tag-premiere","tag-queen"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}