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DO THE ‘PROUD BOYS’ KNOW THEIR ANTHEM WAS WRTEN BY A GAY JEW?

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Do the ‘Proud Boys’ know their anthem was wrten by a gay Jew? Ironilly, that particular "Aladd" song was wrten by Jewish poser-lyricist team of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, the latter of whom was gay.

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Proud Boys members have spewed homophobic slurs durg vlent attacks, and McInn once rerd a vio tled "10 Thgs I Hate About Jews" before changg the tle. Yet, for playwright Chad Beguel--who is rponsible for the book and lyrics of Aladd on Broadway--his reer has e full circle thanks to two productns wrten by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, the award-wng llaborators behd Aladd, Bety and the Beast, and The Ltle what he lled his own "really gay story, " Beguel was spired to bee a wrer after his father took him to see an Off-Broadway productn of Ltle Shop of Horrors, one of Ashman and Menken's earlit llaboratns.

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It's Not Jt Frozen: Most Disney Movi Are Pro-GayBy preachg acceptance and qutng genr, the pany's kids films offer a queer-studi crash urse.

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Elsa hidg her ice-powers uld be read as a metaphor for the closet, the Osr-wng “Let Go” plays like a g-out anthem, and a character the film evok the qutn of whether homosexualy is a choice by quirg of Elsa’s powers, “born wh or cursed?

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