Disney's "Strange World" Featur Gay Teen Romance - Metro Weekly

Contents:

• STRANGE WORLD: EVERYTHG ABOUT DISNEY'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER ETHAN CLA
• HERE'S HOW 'STRANGE WORLD' TRODUC THE FIRST OUT GAY TEENAGER A DISNEY ANIMATED FILM: 'IT WAS A BETIFUL THG TO BE A PART OF'
• DISNEY’S “STRANGE WORLD” FEATUR GAY TEEN ROMANCE
• DID DISNEY BURY STRANGE WORLD BEE OF GAY CHARACTER?
• STRANGE WORLD’S EXCELLENT GAY ROMANCE IS UNRMED BY DISNEY’S PAST FAILUR
• JABOIE YOUNG-WHE SAYS PLAYG DISNEY'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ANIMATED LEAD 'STRANGE WORLD' IS 'A NORMAL REFLECTN OF OUR REALY'
• LIST: 'STRANGE WORLD' REVIEWS ABOUT DISNEY'S FIRST OUT GAY, CHARACTER, BIRACIAL QUEER TEEN

STRANGE WORLD: EVERYTHG ABOUT DISNEY'S FIRST GAY CHARACTER ETHAN CLA

Ethan is Disney's first openly gay character. But the scene sparked bate due to two issu: Florida’s ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” law, which prohibs any class discsn about sexual orientatn and genr inty to stunts younger than ne years old, and Disney’s efforts as a pany to have repealed.

His father supports him and giv him advice, not focg on whether his son is gay or not, but simply as a father who is by his son’s si matters of love. 23, the movie also monstrat the Moe Hoe's renewed mment to LGBTQ reprentatn by showsg the first out gay teenager a Disney rtoon feature.

HERE'S HOW 'STRANGE WORLD' TRODUC THE FIRST OUT GAY TEENAGER A DISNEY ANIMATED FILM: 'IT WAS A BETIFUL THG TO BE A PART OF'

That character is Ethan Cla, and he's voiced by out gay edian and actor Jaboie Young-Whe.

"For her part, Unn not that her recent remake of Cheaper by the Dozen — which premiered on Disney+ March — featured one of Disney's first live actn gay teens (played by Caylee Blosensk), but says much of that storyle was downplayed the fished film.

Both the 2020 animated feature, Onward, which featured Disney's first self-intified lbian character, and 2022's Lightyear, which featured the stud's first same-sex kiss, were banned Sdi Arabia and other Gulf natns where homosexual nduct is still illegal.

DISNEY’S “STRANGE WORLD” FEATUR GAY TEEN ROMANCE

Walt Disney Studs is set to release Strange World, an animated film about a group of adventurers who travel to new worlds, which featur a gay teen romance. The scriptn of the romance was first reported Variety and explas the ntext of their relatnship wh jt enough tail to show the movie is gay-themed, whout givg too much of the story away.

Matthi Saghezchi, an Emmy Award-wng animatn productn signer nfirmed the movie’s gay romance on Twter. “It featur the first openly gay teen romance a Disney feature!!!

DID DISNEY BURY STRANGE WORLD BEE OF GAY CHARACTER?

Disney has had several characters who have been assumed to be gay — though their sexualy was never acknowledged — past projects. For example, the character LeFou om the live-actn Bety and the Beast was announced to be gay, along wh the animated cyclops Officer Spector om Onward, but neher character’s sexualy was acknowledged openly, nor did play an important role plot velopment. However, the cln of the kiss has led at least 14 untri Asia and the Middle East wh laws crimalizg homosexualy to ban Lightyear om beg released, cludg Sdi Arabia, Indonia, Malaysia, and Lebanon.

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STRANGE WORLD’S EXCELLENT GAY ROMANCE IS UNRMED BY DISNEY’S PAST FAILUR

The animated tale clud Disney's first biracial gay teen, Ethan Cla (voiced by Jaboie Young-Whe), wh a small scene of him gettg tongue-tied near his csh, Diazo -- and there are those who thk that led Disney to liberately bury the film. A bunch of fat boomer parents are jt mad about the gay character.

If you thk gay people existg is them shovg their 'liftyle' down your throat and stggle to have simple nversatns wh your children bee of that then maybe jt skip . Chapek had been cricized for, among other thgs, a belated and mishandled rponse to the "don't say gay" legislatn Florida, where Disney is the largt employer. Of all the iends and fay I spoke to after the media screeng this weekend, about 90 percent of them hadn’t heard of - 90 percent of my iends are gay and love animatn, so this shouldn’t be a bld spot.

Yet Disney has once aga scribed him as s ‘first openly gay character’ ever, which jt isn’t te, and th the ter has turned the film to a mean-spired but fully served meme. Ethan Cla’s homosexualy is one of the first thgs we learn about him.

JABOIE YOUNG-WHE SAYS PLAYG DISNEY'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ANIMATED LEAD 'STRANGE WORLD' IS 'A NORMAL REFLECTN OF OUR REALY'

It’s reprentatn that will mean so much to young people seeg a queer romance unfold for the first time, and Disney is right to put ont and centre like this, but llg Ethan Disney’s first openly-gay character when we already have so many shows how much the pany is playg to s own ridicule. Next: I Have Sent The Amphibia Fandom Into A Gay Spiral And I Regret Nothg. Ethan is the first gay protagonist a Walt Disney Animatn Studs film.

His voice actor, Jaboie Young-Whe, is openly gay real life. ↑ "‘Strange World’ To Feature First Openly Gay Teen Romance Disney Animated Film". In "Strange World, " Jaboie Young-Whe plays the first gay lead an animated Disney movie.

At first, Jaboie Young-Whe did not nsir how his role as an openly gay animated character Disney's "Strange World" uld have a social impact.

LIST: 'STRANGE WORLD' REVIEWS ABOUT DISNEY'S FIRST OUT GAY, CHARACTER, BIRACIAL QUEER TEEN

Young-Whe, 28, voic Ethan Cla, a biracial, gay teenager who gets fltered the prence of his csh Diazo. The character has ma history as the first openly gay lead a Disney animated film.

Young-Whe, who is also openly gay, exprsed his appreciatn for Hall's creative choice on the red rpet.