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GOP Politician: Gay Character in Cruella Ruined My Childhood
GOP Politician: Gay Character in Cruella Ruined My Childhood
Omar Navarro, a convicted stalker and perennial long-shot candidate against California Congresswoman Maxine Waters, doesn't like the drag queen on Blue's Clues either.
Omar Navarro, a California Republican politician who has tried and failed several times to unseat U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, is complaining that Disney has ruined his childhood by featuring a gay character in the movie Cruella.
Navarro, who has also served jail time on stalking charges, tweeted Sunday about the new film, which tells the backstory of Cruella de Vil (Emma Stone), the puppy-stealing villain of 101 Dalmatians, and features John McCrea as Artie, a gay member of Cruella's entourage and Disney's first major LGBTQ+ character. The movie opened Friday.
\u201cThe new Disney Cruella with Emma Stone just ruined my childhood with an openly flamboyant gay in the movie. \n\nDisney persist shoving the LGBT agenda down our throat.\u201d— Omar Navarro (@Omar Navarro) 1622431404
He has followed up with an ignorant tweet about pansexuality and one condemning the children's TV program Blue's Clues for featuring a drag queen.
\u201cLet children be children. Let\u2019s stop the indoctrination in the schools. Drag queens don\u2019t need to enter our schools. There\u2019s a difference between accepting and shoving an agenda and propaganda down children\u2019s throats. Blue\u2019s Clues newest episode is straight propaganda.\u201d— Omar Navarro (@Omar Navarro) 1622498990
Navarro has run doomed campaigns against Waters, a popular and long-serving Los Angeles-area Democrat, in every election in California's 43rd Congressional District since 2016. He adheres pretty much to the far-right line and believes Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election, but he seems to be particularly obsessed with LGBTQ+ issues, noting his support for "traditional Christian family values" and opposition to the "LGBT agenda."
Navarro's checkered past includes a guilty plea in 2016 to a charge of illegally attaching an electronic tracking device to his wife's car, for which he served probation, and a guilty plea last year to stalking an ex-girlfriend, for which he spent six months in jail.
His latest tweets have drawn substantial ridicule.
\u201chow am I supposed to enjoy the movie about a woman murders dogs and wears their skin when you acknowledge that homosexuals exist\u201d— Sam Adams (@Sam Adams) 1622494012
\u201cIf that ruined your childhood, I hope you didn\u2019t watch Full House. Three single men, living under one roof raising kids in San Francisco....\u201d— John Stamos (@John Stamos) 1622555112
\u201c@RealOmarNavarro Yeah, as a gay, when straight characters (90% of fiction) come on screen I start crying and immediately run to Twitter to piss about it aswell. \nI feel you man\u201d— Omar Navarro (@Omar Navarro) 1622431404
