Contents:
- RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON’S KELLY MARIE TRAN THKS HER DISNEY PRCS IS GAY
- 17 GAY AND LGBTQ DISNEY CHARACTERS – OM D TO NON TO TASTROPHE
RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON’S KELLY MARIE TRAN THKS HER DISNEY PRCS IS GAY
The movie will feature a Black, gay superhero, as well as the first hearg impaired hero. But for the pany that started toutg s “exclively gay moments” a few years back, and whose characters have long been embraced by queer muni, Raya has felt for many like one step closer to the was eager to add that jt bee she terpreted the Namaari and Raya relatnship as somethg more than platonic, that wasn’t the official Disney le. ” Disney films have been tiptoeg around the perimeter of queer reprentatn for some time now whether be the “exclively gay” lisend of Bety and the Beast, a fleetg, sapphic background kiss The Rise of Skywalker, Thor: Ragnarok’s allegedly bisexual Valkyrie, Onward’s brief mentn of a female p’s girliend, or Elsa’s totally platonic iend Honeymaren Frozen II.
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17 GAY AND LGBTQ DISNEY CHARACTERS – OM D TO NON TO TASTROPHE
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Poe Dameron (Osr Isaac) and Fn (John Boyega) is another popular gay ship that the "Star Wars" sequel trilogy should have mted to.
"The seri' ma gay character, Cynthia Rose (Esther Dean), was also treated as a joke the first movie — which Rebel Wilson's Fat Amy has an ongog gag of "outg" her before she nfs at the end of the movie — and is later siled the sequels. As one cric said at the time of “closeted gay fashnista” Ken: “Pairg homophobia wh misogyny, the jok about Ken suggt that the worst thgs a boy n be are eher a girl or a homosexual. Disney faced more flak 2018 when Jack Whehall, a straight man, was revealed as playg the “hugely effete, very mp” gay man McGregor Jungle Cise.