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- ONWARD’S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER STILL LEAV DISNEY BEHD S PETORS
- 2020 WAS ANIMATN’S BIGGT, GAYT YEAR SO FAR
- KIPO AND THE AGE OF WONRBEASTS MAK G OUT AS GAY SIMPLE AND DIRECT
- DREAMWORKS FILM TO FEATURE GAY CHARACTER
ONWARD’S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER STILL LEAV DISNEY BEHD S PETORS
In Pixar’s new animated movie, Lena Wahe plays Officer Spector, the first openly gay character the stud’s movi. Disney’s history of LGBTQ reprentatn is spotty, and the pany needs to do more. * gay dreamworks characters *
Onward, Pixar’s first non-sequel movie sce 2017’s Co, notably featur the stud’s first openly gay character. This one le, livered passg wh no follow-up, marks the first verbal regnn of a character’s gay relatnship an animated Disney movie.
Elsa’s new ballad, “Show Yourself, ” sound pretty dang gay. Whether animators vertly add those gay moments, or ’s jt fans projectg, the bt-se scenar for Disney is to let LGBTQ muni celebrate potentially gay characters whout the pany havg to acknowledge their queerns. Disney’s dience is huge, and unfortunately, clus vol homophob — both the Stat and ternatnal markets, cludg untri where beg gay n land you jail — as well as queer viewers sperate for reprentatn.
2020 WAS ANIMATN’S BIGGT, GAYT YEAR SO FAR
Today, DreamWorks' terrific How To Tra Your Dragon 2 glis to theaters. Of the film's several rare creatur is a particularly important one: a matter-of-fact gay character. In a blk-and-miss asi, vikg character Gobber ments on a hband and wife's rnn after several years of trangement by sayg, "This is why I never , and one other reason." * gay dreamworks characters *
A nice gay moment. Thanks large part to lobbyg om fans, Disney started featurg explicly gay characters recent years — mostly blk-and-you’ll-miss- moments.
Back 2017, director Bill Condon ma headl when he announced that his live-actn Bety and the Beast remake would feature “a nice, exclively gay moment” urty of Josh Gad’s LeFou. The obsequ sikick to Bety and the Beast’s Gaston had always been spected of admirg the swaggerg villa as more than jt a ra, but acrdg to Condon (who is openly gay himself), his versn of LeFou would be explicly cshg on Gaston. That “exclively gay moment” end up beg even more disappotg, however, when only amounted to some (by Condon’s own admissn) “subtle” flirtg, and a few sends of footage where LeFou and a man drag lli at a celebratn.
Avengers: Endgame -director Joe Rso said that was so important to him that Marvel movi reflect the queer muny that he wanted to play the Marvel Cematic Universe’s first gay character himself. (Marvel Studs print Kev Feige has nfirmed that there will be fally be a gay superhero the MCU, urty of Brian Tyree Henry’s character The Eternals. Cys Goodman, the bt-iend character on Disney Channel’s Andi Mack, me out as gay a 2017 episo.
KIPO AND THE AGE OF WONRBEASTS MAK G OUT AS GAY SIMPLE AND DIRECT
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Disney Pl’ High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri featur a gay romance. ” In this se, the sexual exploratn happens to be gay, while films like Never Been Kissed and 10 Thgs I Hate About You, which feature siar high-school sexual terrory, are still on the platform.
Of the film's several rare creatur is a particularly important one: a matter-of-fact gay character.
The movie's openly gay director, Dean DeBlois, kept , explag to Fox 411, "I thk 's nice. "That Gobber is butch and otherwise not intifiably gay mak his g out that much more powerful.
DREAMWORKS FILM TO FEATURE GAY CHARACTER
"When Shego and Kim fought the <i>Kim Possible</i> movi, somethg stirred ep si me... and that was gayns." * gay dreamworks characters *
He's jt gay, that's jt part of him.