Crics h out at the entertament giant's failure to clu gay characters s films
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GAYHISTORY: MICKEY MOE, HOMOPHOBE
Mickey Moe: guilty of a hate crime? Brent Bozell is one of those right-wgers who has ma a reer of beg dignant at every hour of the day, always on the lookout for an exce to whe and pla. One of the thgs that upsets him is that some ic books feature openly gay characters.… * mickey mouse gay mi *
For the upg provotive paras that make a perdic show of bchery ci throughout the entire world (Gay Pri), the Amerin pany plans to distribute rabow-lored Mickey Moe ears to children all s amement parks. For a long time now, Disney has ma no secret of s role as a pro-LGBT lobby for the easily manipulated youth: rabow sticker llectns, Gay Days s amement parks, televisn seri that make homosexualy seem mon… no holds are barred when to attackg the most vulnerable. One of the thgs that upsets him is that some ic books feature openly gay characters.
If Bozell knew anythg about earlier tim, he would realize that gays have been portrayed ics for s, not jt ic books but even ic strips that ran fay newspapers. Yet a Mickey Moe ic strip om January 22, 1931 shows the ltle ront meetg a big t who displays all the markers stereotypilly given to gay characters durg that perd: a lisp, a limp handshake, and a general effemacy of manner ( this se, battg eyelash).
Revealg himself to be not jt homophobic but a vlent gay-basher, Mickey attacks the big t. In the early s of the 20th century, many rtoonists featured characters that were gay stereotyp: swishy men and butch women. (Later on the Cold War era, Annie meets some traoro State Department diplomats who seemed very effemate, nformg to the monly-held notn that gays were more likely to betray their untry).