List: Gay characters, same-sex upl Disney, Marvel movi, shows

Contents:

• GAY PURR-EE
• DISNEY ANIMATED FILM FEATURG FIRST OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE
• DISNEY'S OPENLY GAY ANIMATED MOVIE 'STRANGE WORLD' FLOPS AT BOX OFFICE

GAY PURR-EE

A farm t mov to Paris search of the high life while her wannabe lover om back home tri to productn, box office & pany Vios1More like thisReview Well I DID like serly, I thought "Gay Pur-ree" is up there on par wh Disney's greatt productns, even surpassg some of them. FandorethJun 11, 2002FAQ2Contribute to this pageSuggt an ed or add missg ntentBy what name was Gay Purr-ee (1962) officially released India English? Disney’s latt major animatn fally livers on those reprentatn promis the pany’s been makg for years (Picture: Disney)Disney has fally done – after years of quick referenc, teasg and plenty of queer dg, the stud has s first gay lead character an animatn wh new film, Strange World.

Dpe s stumble earlier this year when Disney had to be phed to speak out publicly agast Florida’s highly ntroversial ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law, as one of the world’s most powerful media pani has been an advote for LGBTQ+ rights and cln for many years via s msagg, polici and – of urse – merchandise. Everyone remembers the ial excement when was revealed Disney was gog to feature s first ‘openly gay’ character wh LeFou (Josh Gad) the 2017 live-actn remake of Bety and the Beast, before turned out was all to do wh Gad’s performance one scene and never tentnally baked to the script. Sce 2020, feels like we’ve been chg towards this evable moment wh Strange World, after Onward featured a lbian character, live-actn film Jungle Cise ma explic reference to Jack Whehall’s character McGregor beg gay and Toy Story adjacent film Lightyear showed Disney’s first animated same-sex kiss 2022 (aga, sadly cut some untri, as well as almost the US).

DISNEY ANIMATED FILM FEATURG FIRST OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE

Fans were prevly upset to see Shang cut om the live-actn Mulan remake (Picture: Disney)However, is Strange World that is the Disney rtoon that is first to make one of s lead characters gay, balancg a way where is repeatedly referenced, forms part of a sub-plot and – ccially – allows for some lovely bondg moments between s supportive onscreen fay. Openly gay edian Jaboie Young-Whe stars as Ethan Cla, the grandson of legendary explorer Jaeger Cla (Dennis Quaid) and son of the more rerved explorer-turned-farmer Searcher Cla (Jake Gyllenhaal).

Ethan also mak an awome new iend Splat, FYI (Picture: Disney)Durg their geoly animated adventure, which ow a bt of gratu to pulp magaz, Jul Verne, Terry Pratchett and mythology, is ma clear early on that Ethan is gay and nursg a csh on one of his male iends. Strange World manag to balance a sual ‘not a big al’ approach to Ethan as Disney’s first gay lead character while also makg tegral to who he is and an element of his personaly that’s never bshed unr the rpet.

The movie tells the story of an Algerian-French heterosexual young man begng a soclogy study of gay islamic homosexuali and disverg gay love wh a young French steward. But when Waleed sudnly dumps him to marry a woman, Rami mt face the realy of life as a gay man Egypt. All of this at a time of a major crackdown on gay men and the notor Queen Boat arrts of 2001.

DISNEY'S OPENLY GAY ANIMATED MOVIE 'STRANGE WORLD' FLOPS AT BOX OFFICE

The batn of beg back his hometown, this prsure om his mother and his homosexualy him to have equent panic attacks.

Out Loud is the first film om Lebanon wh a gay theme that sets a new standard for cema om the Middle East the midst of the Arab Sprg. Abllah, a young gay man, is tryg to fd his way through the difficult sexual, polil and racial climate of Moroc.

Salma, a DJ and bartenr fac a difficult moment as she out as gay to her tradnal Christian fay. Waseem is a Syrian gay-for-pay htler seekg refuge Cologne. A documentary by Peter Barbosa and Garrett Lenoir, I Exist giv a voice to gay and lbian Amerins om the Middle East, who often rema silent out of shame and fear.