Disney actor Jack Whitehall faces backlash over 'stereotypes' in first openly gay role

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Tuesday, 14 August 2018 ()

Disney is facing a backlash over a report its first openly gay major film character, played by comic actor Jack Whitehall, will be "hugely effete" and "very camp". Campaigners for LGBT rights said the company risked botching a watershed moment by "playing up to negative tropes and received ideas about queer people" in "The Jungle...
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