In honor of the movie’s 15th anniversary, one wrers talks about the personal impact Disney’s “Lilo & Stch” had on him as a gay, parentls child
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- “LILO & STCH” MEANT THE WORLD TO MY GAY, PARENTLS 10-YEAR-OLD SELF
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“LILO & STCH” MEANT THE WORLD TO MY GAY, PARENTLS 10-YEAR-OLD SELF
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Lilo even feeds peanut butter sandwich to a fish that “ntrols the weather” which the other girls sneer a gay kid I always knew I was different, but havg ad parents ma me really different.
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I uldn’t help but feel Lilo’s lonels and isolatn as a reflectn of my own stggl fdg muny as a gay kid and child of ad urty of the thor. As a gay person, ’s also difficult not to read to some of the film’s subtext. The aliens who e to pture Stch, Jumbaa and Pleakly, often read as a pictn of a gay uple.
The two choose to stay wh Lilo, Nani, and Stch, beg almost like two dads their unnventnal feels more tentnal when you know that one of the -directors for the film, Dean DeBlois, is gay.