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The cast and creatives behind “Agatha All Along” are celebrating the Disney+ series’ unprecedented LGBTQ representation.

“I would agree with that,” Sasheer Zamata, who plays Jennifer Kale, said when told at Monday’s premiere that “Agatha” has been described as “the gayest project Marvel has ever done.

I think the thing that makes it more gay is that we are singing with Patti.”

See more photos from the “Agatha All Along” premiere below.

 

By ANUSHA SHANKAR, City News Service

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, June 25, officially threw its support behind proposed legislation that would establish a California LGBTQ+ Commission.

Assembly Bill 3031 would create a commission “that represents California’s diverse LGBTQ+ community and shines a light on the unique challenges that LGBTQ+ people face,” according to a motion by Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Hilda Solis.

The proposed commission would advise the state Legislature and governor on policy matters, collect data, review and assess programs, and provide recommendations that respond to the needs of the LGBTQ+ community, according to the motion.

The motion calls California a “national leader” in the fight for LGBTQ+ civil rights, having passed laws that protect gender-affirming care, expanded inclusive education and anti-discrimination protections that include sexual orientation and gender identity.

In June last year, the board adopted a motion by Supervisors Solis and Janice Hahn to create an LGBTQ+ Commission in Los Angeles County, which recently held its first meeting.

Similar efforts have been made by local governments like city of West Hollywood’s Lesbian and Gay Advisory Board, which was reconstituted as the LGBTQ+ Commission in 2022.

In June alone, 490 such bills have been proposed, according to the motion.

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“The commission will be an important demonstration of California’s commitment to being a civil rights leader and will help ensure that the voices of the most vulnerable members in our community are heard at the highest levels of government,” the motion reads.

If AB 3031 is passed, the commission will convene quarterly meetings to identify statewide needs of the LGBTQ+ community and offer supportive policies and initiatives, beginning in July 1, 2025.

The bill has already passed in the Assembly and in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Because queer people? “There is a lot of pageantry we’re already competing with. "Don't be afraid! and maiden pride, adieu!

No glory lives behind the back of such.”

Much Ado About Nothing, act 3, scene 1

“She grew absolutely ashamed of herself.—Of neither Darcy nor Wickham could she think, without feeling that she had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd.

Beatrice and Benedick’s model of evenly-matched opponents who become well-suited lovers has become Hollywood’s ideal image of love, almost 500 years later.

Warring and wooing, Beatrice and Benedick’s presence is felt across the ages. You’ve Got Mail is based on the play Parfumerie by Miklós László, in which a pair of enemies unwittingly fall in love through letters.

… Teen is a queer guy on the show, but it’s not the driving force, which I think is really great. Not coincidentally, this was also the era of the first female actresses onstage in England, and strong female leads were a source of intense fascination during the period.

In May 1665, Nell Gwyn played Beatrice opposite her real-life lover, star actor Charles Hart, in a role that cemented the appeal of the “gay couple.” Warm, witty and impudent, Nell was an archetypal Beatrice.

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Peter Warne: YES! Leonard Digges’s dedication to the 1632 Second Folio, one of the rare Early Modern descriptions of a Shakespearean play in performance, declares the play a crowd-pleaser: “…let but Beatrice / And Benedick be seene, loe in a trice, the Cockpit Galleries, Boxes, all are full.”

On Charles I’s private copy of the Second Folio, the king himself crossed out the title of “Much Ado About Nothing” and scrawled “Beatrice and Benedick” below it.

RESTORATION THEATRE

Restoration comedies by William Congreve, William Wycherley and George Etherege are all dominated by the “gay couple”—a pair of lovers whose attraction is tempered by antagonism.

Witches are queer, inherently, just because we are outcasts and set aside for many reasons. In 2009, West Hollywood created the Transgender Advisory Board, while the city of Los Angeles created the Transgender Advisory Council.

According to the motion, 520 anti-LGBTQ+ bills were introduced across the country in 2023 in more than 40 states, 84 of which were signed into law.

"Teen is a queer guy on the show, but it’s not the driving force, which I think is really great. It goes beyond even showing them in a relationship. Agatha Harkness herself, Kathryn Hahn, told the press: "What is the most exciting thing about it is is that’s not exactly what it’s about. “Nell’s and Hart’s mad parts are most excellently done,” wrote Samuel Pepys, “but especially hers.” Nell’s life story—she may have been a child prostitute and later became Charles II’s mistress—exemplifies the difficulties faced in the period by free-spirited and desirable women.

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Beatrice and Elizabeth Bennet would have liked each other.

Aside from Locke, Agatha All Along boasts an almost entirely female-identifying cast.