Bob Chapek mentned Disney creatg "spirg" queer ntent when addrsg the pany’s supposed support of the ntroversial "Don’t Say Gay" bill. Here are all Disney’s official gay moments om movi and TV seri.
Contents:
- HAPPY PRI! THE ARE THE GAYT THGS DISNEY HISTORY
- IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
- REPORT: DISNEY TO INCLU GAY RELATNSHIP IN LIGHTYEAR MOVIE
- DISNEY ACCED OF REMOVG GAY NTENT OM PIXAR FILMS
- DISNEY'S 8 'FIRST OPENLY GAY' CHARACTERS, RANKED (BY HOW EMBARRASSED DISNEY SHOULD FEEL)
HAPPY PRI! THE ARE THE GAYT THGS DISNEY HISTORY
* gay stuff in disney movies *
Updated on June 7th, 2022 by Danielle Bnti: In the wake of Florida's extremely ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill and the strong cricism that me om wh The Walt Disney Company for not speakg up, seems like Disney is fally unrstandg out important LGBTQ+ reprentatn is for s fans and s st members.
Artie is able to be his thentic self and actor John McCrea is happy wh his portrayal of Artie and believ him to be a gay character, but Disney yet aga ma the mistake of not fully lvg to Artie beg an openly gay character. Orka and Flix Star Wars Ristance are two openly gay characters who aren't human and are actually two different speci but are openly a relatnship the seri.
Jungle Cise hasn't technilly been released yet, but Disney has been clear that one of the major characters the movie, McGregor Houghton, will be gay.
IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
Disney has gotten trouble for paltry LGBTQ+ reprentatn the past - but Disney has actually had gay characters sce the begng. * gay stuff in disney movies *
Certa groups are upset at the ia of a children's movie reprentg the LGBTQ+ muny while progrsiv are upset at Jack Whehall's stg, believg a gay actor should be st, and the ia that might be a stereotypil, harmful reprentatn. The show's creator and executive producer Terri Msky said that Cys and his story were largely spired by Terri's dghter's iends, who knew that they were gay middle school. When news outlets reported that The Walt Disney Company donated money to legislators who supported Florida’s ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Disney CEO Bob Chapek sent an ternal memo to the pany sayg Disney would still “unequivolly” support s LGBTQ employe.
In 2017, director Bill Condon, who is gay himself, told Attu Magaze that his versn of Bety and the Beast, Gaston’s henchman LeFou (Josh Gad) would have a csh on Gaston (Le Evans). Two years after g out, Cys also beme the first Disney character to say the words “I’m gay” out loud, when Cys sually told another iend about his sexualy. Vtage-store owner Artie do not mentn his sexualy Cella, but John McCrea, the openly gay actor who plays him, says he read the character as queer and portrayed him as such.
REPORT: DISNEY TO INCLU GAY RELATNSHIP IN LIGHTYEAR MOVIE
A new report claims that The Walt Disney Company and Pixar will clu a gay relatnship their upg Lightyear film. * gay stuff in disney movies *
Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay) and Cta Kaz (Varada Sethu) Andor, (Image cred: Disney Pl)Jungle CiseJungle Cise was so, so, so close to almost havg a character say the words "I'm gay" on screen. (Image cred: Disney+)CellaSure, we might have roasted Disney a ty b our Cella review for once aga pattg themselv on the back for their "first" out gay character (for the seventh time) and not even havg the cency to do anythg beyond an implic gay scriptn. Bex puts a ser damper on Andi and her iends' fun which tak a toll on her first year as a Goodman, one of Andi's bt iends, ma history as the first Disney character to ever say the words "I'm gay, " out loud on televisn.
(Image cred: Walt Disney Studs)Disney’s “First Gay Moment” It would not be until 2017 that we got anythg remblg an overt reference to anythg other than a straight character a movie om Disney. (Image cred: Lusfilm/Disney)Background Scen In 2019, we saw a strange pattern emergg where movi released by Disney would “clu” gay characters, but only as set drsg. In both Toy Story 4 and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, we saw background characters who did not have nam or any dialogue, but were clearly to be seen as gay.
DISNEY ACCED OF REMOVG GAY NTENT OM PIXAR FILMS
Bety and the Beast's Le Fou might be the first character that Disney has openly regnized as beg gay, but that don't mean LGBT people haven't been there all along. * gay stuff in disney movies *
(Image cred: Marvel Studs)The Mor Mentns Concurrently wh the background scen that you might not have even noticed, we saw the first direct referenc to gay characters some other Disney movi.
The at least had the benef of beg characters who were the center of the ame and liverg dialogue, though they were also mor characters who viewers were likely to fet about Stud’s “first gay character” appeared Avengers: Endgame, and was played by one of the move's directors, Joe Rso. (Image cred: Disney)2021 - The Year Of Actual Gay Characters In Disney Movi Disney still has a long way to go when to LGBTQ+ reprentatn s films, but 2021 was at least a signifint step forward as we saw three films where signifint characters who were important to the stori beg told were queer. That would seem to dite the gay scene was cut, as Cha ually do not allow such ntent the movi releas, but I have been unable to nfirm that, so 's possible the scene stayed .
Intertgly, the word is that the scene was origally cut om the Chris Evans-led movie before beg add back followg the aftermath the ongog battle between Disney and Florida over the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. It also featur Ashman’s tragic end as a gay man the 1990s, dyg as a rult of plitns om AIDS durg the height of the AIDS epimic New York before Bety and the Beast released.
DISNEY'S 8 'FIRST OPENLY GAY' CHARACTERS, RANKED (BY HOW EMBARRASSED DISNEY SHOULD FEEL)
Accatn om Pixar employe after pany refed to take public stand agast ntroversial ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill * gay stuff in disney movies *
Not only is Cella one of Disney's bt live-actn remak, but also featured Disney's first "major" gay character -- a claim that was qutned by some Disney fans sce Disney has ed the same headle before. Disney has recently bee a very huge, somewhat unexpected ally the fight for gay rights, pecially Florida, where they are currently battlg out wh Gov Ron DeSantis a fight that n all be traced back to former CEO Bob Chapek and his rponse to the polician’s famo “Don’t Say Gay” bill. While Disney may not have been able to do anythg too “openly gay” until very recently, s films are still filled wh referenc, homag, and wks to LGBTQ+ people – bee artists and creativ are so equently queer, this should e as no surprise.
There might not be any substantial evince or allegori outsi of the movi themselv that pot to this, but they set off the gaydar of many people who would know, and that’s not sayg nothg. The characters clu, of urse, the ever-popular queer-d villas: Capta Hook is portrayed as a stereotypil, effemate dandy; Maleficent reads to many (pecially fans of Angela Jolie) like a morn-day bisexual queen; Kg Candy lerally walks around wh limp wrists; Has is Megara’s sarstic, toxic gay enemy; and there’s jt somethg about Jafar.