Snoop Dogg is teaming up with GLAAD and The Voice’s Jeremy Beloate to support LGBTQ+ youth for Spirit Day, months after criticising a Disney film for including queer characters.
Snoop Dogg has teamed up with GLAAD for a new collaboration aimed at uplifting LGBTQ+ youth, marking a notable shift from comments he made earlier this year about queer characters in children’s films.
Announced Thursday (Oct. 16), the partnership is part of GLAAD’s annual Spirit Day, a campaign focused on standing up against bullying and showing solidarity with LGBTQ+ youth. The collaboration includes a new song, ‘Love Is Love,’ featuring The Voice‘s Jeremy Beloate, who was part of Snoop’s team during season 26 in 2024. The track will appear in an episode of Snoop’s YouTube children’s series, Doggyland.
In addition to the song, Snoop Dogg and Beloate sat down for a conversation about LGBTQ+ issues, including same-sex parenting and the importance of inclusivity in children’s media.
“It’s a beautiful thing that kids can have parents of all walks and be able to be shown love and to be taught what love is, because hate is taught, and so is love … whether it’s two fathers, two mothers, whatever it is, love is the key,” Snoop Dogg says in the video. “I think these kids are being loved by these great parents that are, you know, showing them an example of what family is.”
The comments mark a major change in tone from August, when the Snoop Dogg criticised the Disney movie Lightyear for featuring LGBTQ+ characters. At the time, he said he didn’t want to “explain queer relationships” to his grandchildren. “I didn’t come here for this sh**, I just came to watch the godd**n movie,” Snoop said on the It’s Giving podcast. “I’m scared to go to the movies now. Like, y’all throwing me in the middle of sh** that I don’t have an answer for.”
Weeks later, Snoop Dogg appeared to soften his stance after activist Ts Madison publicly addressed his remarks. Commenting on her Instagram post, he wrote, “I was just caught off guard and had no answer for my grandsons all my gay friends [know] what’s up they been calling me with love. my bad for not knowing the answers for a 6 yr old … teach me how to learn I’m not perfect.”
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