I just came across this bbc story, reporting that ”The trailer for Disney Pixar’s Finding Dory has thousands of people wondering if the film has set a precedent by featuring a lesbian couple.” Although, having just checked out the trailer in question, I’m not sure I can see what they are talking about, if it is true then surely this is great progress on the LGBT front. As with disabled people, lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people are severely under represented in the mainstream media, so for a company like disney, so often taken to be quite conservative, to include a lesbian couple in one of it’s films, is a major step forward. No doubt there will be people who vehemently oppose this, hating the fact that so-called ‘alternative lifestyles’ are being ‘normalised’, but, to me, such normalisation is long overdue. It’s high time we saw gay people in disney films, more transgender people on tv and disabled people at the cinema. Humanity is wonderfully diverse, and art should reflect that diversity.