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Disney Rolling Out Children’s Cartoon Featuring 14-Year-Old Activist With Interracial Gay Dads

Jon Brown
Disney Rolling Out Children’s Cartoon Featuring 14-Year-Old Activist With Interracial Gay Dads
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Disney is revamping “The Proud Family,” a 20-year-old cartoon sitcom about an African American family, and will be featuring a cast that includes two interracial gay dads whose adopted daughter is a teenage racial activist.

Actors Zachary Quinto and Billy Porter, both of whom are gay, will be playing Barry Leibowitz-Jenkins and Randall Leibowitz-Jenkins, respectively, according to Entertainment Weekly (EW). The two are a couple and mixed-race adoptive parents to Maya Leibowitz-Jenkins, a 14-year-old black activist voiced by Keke Palmer.

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