Why Disney needs a gay prcs

Contents:

• DISNEY ANNOUNC 'PRC,' FIRST FILM WH OPENLY GAY CHARACTERS.
• FROZEN 3 IS DISNEY'S PERFECT CHANCE TO INTRODUCE A GAY PRCS
• EVER AFTER HIGH GIV MASTREAM ANIMATN ITS FIRST GAY PRCS
• IS ELSA GAY? WHY FROZEN 2 DON'T ADDRS THE TOPIC
• GAY PRCS
• DISNEY'S ACTUAL 'FIRST GAY CHARACTER' HAS BEEN FOTTEN ABOUT
• WHY DISNEY NEEDS A GAY PRCS
• BRS ARE BACKG A GAY DISNEY PRCS SO HERE'S WHY IT'S GOTTA HAPPEN ASAP
• KELLY MARIE TRAN SAYS HER DISNEY PRCS, RAYA, IS GAY - INSI THE MAGIC
• ARE WE READY FOR A GAY DISNEY PRCS? WE MAY BE CLOSER THAN YOU THK.
• DISNEY PRCS PROMOT "GAY RIGHTS" AT DISNEYLAND, GUTS DELIGHTED - INSI THE MAGIC

DISNEY ANNOUNC 'PRC,' FIRST FILM WH OPENLY GAY CHARACTERS.

Style was at the fore of the Prce’s life and he later published two books about fashn and terr sign: The Power Look 1978 and a follow-up, The Power Look at Home: Deratg for Men, Fürstenberg had a well-known fondns for gay nightlife. But while a third movie isn't the works jt yet, once do happen, would be the perfect opportuny for Disney to break the mold and make a big step forward terms of clivy and diversy by troducg Elsa as a gay prcs.

Consirg there are many rners of the Inter (and even the entertament dtry) where younger viewers uld be misted on LGBTQ people, a gay Elsa -- if handled right -- would tastefully act as a posive statement for equaly and social jtice, and not, as some tractors might argue, a "rptg" one. So, while there'd be trepidatn that a gay Elsa uld hurt Frozen's ticket sal, 's a misnceptn bee the world wants to see more POC, more mori and more gay reprentatn.

FROZEN 3 IS DISNEY'S PERFECT CHANCE TO INTRODUCE A GAY PRCS

There have been a lot of mors that the eagerly anticipated sequel to Frozen will reveal Elsa to be the first gay Disney Prcs (though she is actually a queen).

That will be a great leap forward terms of reprentatn of gay characters media, but if happens, Disney will have been beaten to the punch by the most recent season of Ever After High. It’s time for gay ltle girls to see their prcs end up wh the woman of their dreams stead of silently endurg another lson what is expected of them stead of what they actually want.

It seems like gay men across the world have formed their own way to pe wh beg on lockdown that ually clus one or more for the followg: endls shirtls workouts, tasteful and/or tastels thirst traps, bakg banana bread, masturbatn, lnchg an OnlyFans, dyeg their hair, or the fal step to mania, buzzg off pletely. Given Disney's fear of alienatg parents (or media censors untri like Rsia) who aren't tolerant of LGBTQ+ them children's entertament, 's not surprisg that the stud didn't make Elsa gay Frozen 2. While the films have heavily hted at Elsa's sexualy wh subtext the lyrics and through Elsa's strong relatnships wh women, n fans expect Disney to make her the first gay Disney prcs a third movie?

EVER AFTER HIGH GIV MASTREAM ANIMATN ITS FIRST GAY PRCS

More signifint gay relatnships have appeared on smaller-sle Disney+ shows - but wh the more nservative nature of major Disney films, would have taken a miracle for Disney to make Elsa gay. When asked about the lack of gay Elsa Frozen 2, director Jennifer Lee told Insir, "When we agreed to do the sequel, we agreed we were gog to not build [om] the outsi ... While changg social tis have been reflected changg reprentatns of relatnships Disney films, may be at least a or two before an explicly gay character or relatnship mak s way to the foc of a mastream Disney “flagship” film.

IS ELSA GAY? WHY FROZEN 2 DON'T ADDRS THE TOPIC

” 1This article will provi the rear wh several tools and strategi for queer readgs of Disney characters and relatnships cludg how to look for thgs that are “queer d, ” how to read to “mp, ” s of queer thorship, referenc to LGBTQ history, and fally how to fd empowerment om “queer homosocial” relatnships and solidary wh other “transgrsive” romanc.

” 2 A “queer readg” is a way of lookg at somethg; do not always imply that the creators tend for the character to be read that way or that a character is gay.

5 This ia subverts the notn that heterosexualy is the natural flt of human programmg and pots to the superficialy and fluidy of tradnal genr Khan is a queer d predator at a time when gay men were seen as a threat to the nocence of childrenTo say that somethg is “queer d” is to say that a character exhibs cultural signs of beg a member of the LGBTQ muny. This policy was showsed the fact that openly gay people like Producer and Lyricist Howard Ashman and animator Adreas Deja were hired and allowed to be open about their sexualy. The actns, however, potentially speak to the gay muny (pecially the whe, middle class gay muny) who mt sacrifice a part of their privilege to follow their love and often sacrifice much more, cludg one’s “voice.

GAY PRCS

” Both Ariel and Ursula are nnected their rebelln agast Tron, though they take different approach for different Rponse: As mentned above, Ursula has been claimed as an LGBTQ in and the phrase “Part of Your World” has been ed as a slogan favor of gay acceptance. Lumiere on the other hand is arguably bisexual or pansexual based on how much he enjoys kissg Authorship: Howard Ashman (producer and lyricist) and Adreas Deja (lead animator for Gaston who Deja has said he based on hyper-mascule gay men the urban gym culture of the 1980s). 12 David Ogn Stiers (the voice of Cogsworth), while closeted at the time of Bety and the Beast, me out as gay years ’s animatn parodi hyper-masculy of gay culture.

DISNEY'S ACTUAL 'FIRST GAY CHARACTER' HAS BEEN FOTTEN ABOUT

Also the parg of the Beast and Gaston plac the two men same-sex History: In 1966, a vlent police raid on the gay bar Stonewall rulted the gay people fightg back. Homosocial Relatnships: While Jafar and Iago’s relatnship is homosocial, the most pellg relatnship the film (arguably more tertg than the one between Aladd and Jasme) is the relatnship between Aladd and the Genie.

Aladd has several pellg homosocial relatnships the film cludg the monkey Abu and the Authorship: Howard Ashman (producer and lyricist) worked on this film before he died and animator Andreas Deja was the lead animator on Them: In this se, Aladd wants to break out of the sentialism which f him as jt a street rat sgg “There’s so much more to me.

WHY DISNEY NEEDS A GAY PRCS

Th, the world of Aladd v the queer rear to dulge a world where genr and sexualy are as vast and myster as the Arabian Rponse: This was the first Disney animated film to specifilly market to gay dienc a mercial featurg the Genie as the queer d fashn nsultant. 15There’s One In Every Fay: The Ln KgCo/Camp Characters: Sr, Zazu, and Timon are all men wh feme Authorship: Openly gay Elton John did the mic for this film while Nathan Lane provid the voice of, the style of Shere Kahn plays the role of nscendg predator.

BRS ARE BACKG A GAY DISNEY PRCS SO HERE'S WHY IT'S GOTTA HAPPEN ASAP

” The more pellg homosocial relatnships the movie, however, are between Pohontas and Grandmother Willow and Pohontas and her bt iend Nakoma who, while she adms she thks Koum is soooo handsome, shows an awful lot of jealoy over Pohontas and John Smh’s relatnship.

Kg Jam’ appearance Pohontas II: Journey to a New World mak him an official gay character a Disney There: The Hunchback of Notre DameHomosocial Relatnships: The relatnship between Hugo and the goat, Djali, is nsired to be Disney’s first openly gay lov that goat.

” There is also a theme of social jtice Esmeralda’s “God Help the Outsts” which n be read to clu the queer History: This film was released around the same time that fundamentalist Christian groups were boyttg the Walt Disney Company bee of their endorsement of homosexualy. The three soldiers Yao, Lg, and Chien-Po n be nsired queer d bee of their over-exaggerated mascule performance or feme Authorship: Openly gay Harvey Fierste voiced the role of Yao who asks if a drs mak him look Them: Mulan sgs the song “Reflectn” about how if she were to be herself, she would break her fay’s heart. Also there is the fact that Capta Shang starts to have feelgs for Mulan, unr the imprsn that she is a Your Fate: BraveHomosocial Relatnships: One of the most impactful aspects of the film is that the end featur two women ridg off to the sunset.

KELLY MARIE TRAN SAYS HER DISNEY PRCS, RAYA, IS GAY - INSI THE MAGIC

While she never mentns attractn to the same sex, her rejectn of heteronormativy queers her character to the pot where she acced of It Go: FrozenHomosocial Relatnships: The relatnship between Elsa and Anna is central to the film. Sven and Olaf, like Hugo and the goat are nsired to be another Disney gay prepar the world for the image of two women Authorship: Openly gay actor Jonathan Groff voiced Kristoff while actors like Ida Menzel and Josh Gad (while both straight) have been associated wh queer-themed mils such as Rent, Wicked and Book of Mormon.

In as much as Artie n make any real "first" claim, 's bee he at least has more scen than Spectre Onward, who at least had a name unlike the gay guy Avengers: Endgame, whose inty was at least ls ambiguo than Lefou's the 2017 Bety and the Beast, and so on and so forth the list of Disney's bare-mimum "firsts. Amidst this cycle of unrwhelmg rporate hype, seems as if people have fotten who Disney's actual "first gay character" was, assumg they were even aware he existed the first place. Don't go to The Prcs Diari 2 expectg some sort of masterpiece of reprentatn or queer cema; the gay ntent is as mimal as that most of the films ught the "Disney's first gay character" hype cycle.

Unls you unt a lbian uple appearg the background of Toy Story 4, this might be the only direct reference to beg gay a G-rated movie ever, which is all the more imprsive given the MPAA's reputatn for ratg gay ntent more harshly than equivalent straight ntent. Mia's reactn is also a stronger gay rights statement than most of Disney's other "exclively gay moments" movi (Disney's TV seri and streamg programs have notably been a lot more LGBTQ-iendly than s movi have been).

ARE WE READY FOR A GAY DISNEY PRCS? WE MAY BE CLOSER THAN YOU THK.

Studi have shown that entertament has a ncrete impact on both self-nfince and tolerance, and a gay Disney prcs would be a powerful statement of acceptance for young LGBT viewers. All we need is someone to show that there are other optns, other kds of prcs, and other ways to have the happy endg that you the #GiveElsaAGirliend mpaign has unsurprisgly lnched a rival #GiveElsaABoyiend mpaign, what’s more tertg to me is the phback om well-meang people who claim not to have a problem wh LGBT reprentatn yet still don’t feel que right about a gay Elsa. While ’s te that female characters tend to disproportnately foc on romance, a world where gay and bisexual teens are four tim more likely to try to kill themselv than straight teens, I would argue the power of a gay Disney prcs far outweighs the power of a pennt one.

DISNEY PRCS PROMOT "GAY RIGHTS" AT DISNEYLAND, GUTS DELIGHTED - INSI THE MAGIC

And when you nsir Disney has recently offered female characters whout romantic arcs Zootopia, Insi Out, Wreck-It Ralph, and Brave, the mand that Elsa be sgle rather than gay feels slightly more disgenuo. Sure, there’s a good chance will feel slightly clunky whenever Disney do eventually ci to troduce a gay protagonist, simply bee we’re jt not ed to seeg gay stori children’s entertament. But to pretend entertament only matters on an athetic level is to be woefully naïve about what ’s like to seldom see yourself reflected on the qutn remas: Would Disney ever actually nonize a gay Disney prcs?

” And while I still fd highly unlikely we’ll actually get a gay Elsa Frozen 2, a recent episo of the live actn Disney seri Once Upon A Time proved the pany isn’t que as averse to changg wh the tim as I would’ve expected.

This powerful moment was a perfect rebuttal for those who worry that troducg gay characters to fay-iendly properti will eher nfe children or overly sexualize the material.