From Bottoms and Problemistas to theatre mps and gay wrtlers, this summer has somethg for everyone — pecially if you're queer.
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- DISNEY’S LONG HISTORY OF QUEER D VILLASMARY KUETER·FOLLOW3 M READ·JAN 30, 2021--LISTENSHAREDISNEY MOVI ARE CLASSIC, TIMELS STORI, WH MEMORABLE CHARACTERS AND EXCG PLOTS. ONE WAY DISNEY ACHIEV THIS IS THROUGH THEIR INIC VILLAS. HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED HOW ALMOST ALL OF THE CHARACTERS SHARE TRAS AND ATTRIBUT STEREOTYPIL OF THE LGBT MUNY? DISNEY HAS A LONG HISTORY OF QUEER DG THEIR VILLAS, WHICH NEGATIVELY AFFECTED THE QUEER MUNY BY PERPETUATG HARMFUL STEREOTYP AND MONIZG QUEER PEOPLE.BUT WHAT IS QUEER DG? WIKIPEDIA F THE TERM AS “A TERM ED TO SAY THAT CHARACTERS WERE GIVEN TRAS/BEHAVRS TO SUGGT THEY ARE NOT HETEROSEXUAL/CISGENR, WHOUT THE CHARACTER BEG OUTRIGHT NFIRMED TO HAVE A QUEER INTY.”QUEER DG SELF IS NOT A NEGATIVE THG. THERE ARE MANY EXAMPL OF WAYS THE TROPE HAS BEEN EXECUTED A WAY THAT DO NOT HARM THE QUEER MUNY. YOSHIHIRO TOGASHI, POPULAR SHONEN MANGA ARTIST AND WRER, HAD TRIED MAKG A SHONEN SERI THAT FEATURED A GAY MA CHARACTER. HOWEVER, BEE OF THE NATURE OF THE GENRE AND THE FACT THAT TOGASHI WAS NOT YET KNOWN, HIS STORY WAS REJECTED. IN ORR TO GET AROUND THE RTRICTNS OF THE MOGRAPHIC, TOGASHI OPTED TO E SUBTEXT AND QUEER-DG STEAD HIS POPULAR SERI, HUNTER X HUNTER. THE WAY HE S KURAPIKA, ONE OF THE MA SUPPORTG CHARACTERS, WAS NOT NEGATIVE BEE WAS NOT BASED ON HARMFUL STEREOTYP.SO HOW DID DISNEY QUEER THEIR VILLAS? WHAT WAS SO WRONG ABOUT ? AND WHY DO EVEN MATTER?DISNEY VILLA’S CODGDISNEY ED STEREOTYPIL SPEECH PATTERNS, MANNERISMS, AND CLOTH TO PICT THEIR SEXUALY. A FEW OF THE VILLAS, LIKE URSULA, WERE EVEN BASED OFF OF REAL LIFE QUEER PEOPLE.URSULA’S QUEER-D TRAS ARE HER MAKP, HER EP VOICE, AND THE FACT THAT SHE IS BASED OFF OF THE REAL LIFE DRAG QUEEN, DIVE. SHE ALSO FALLS TO THE SEXUAL, ALMOST PREDATOR-LIKE LGBT TROPE, UNFORTUNATELY.IT IS EVEN EASIER TO SPOT THIS THE MALE VILLAS. JAFFAR, SR, CAPTA HOOK, HAS, ARE ALL EXAMPL OF CHARACTERS DISNEY MA THAT PERPETUATED THE “SISSY” GAY TROPE. THEY WERE ALL FLAMBOYANT, EFFEMATE PARED TO THEIR MASCULE HERO CHARACTERS, MPY, AND SASSY. SR EVEN HAS LIMP WRISTS.SO WHAT’S THE ISSUE?
- ‘THEY/THEM’ REVIEW: PEACK’S GAY CONVERSN CAMP SLASHER SUFFERS FROM AN INTY CRISIS
DISNEY’S LONG HISTORY OF QUEER D VILLASMARY KUETER·FOLLOW3 M READ·JAN 30, 2021--LISTENSHAREDISNEY MOVI ARE CLASSIC, TIMELS STORI, WH MEMORABLE CHARACTERS AND EXCG PLOTS. ONE WAY DISNEY ACHIEV THIS IS THROUGH THEIR INIC VILLAS. HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED HOW ALMOST ALL OF THE CHARACTERS SHARE TRAS AND ATTRIBUT STEREOTYPIL OF THE LGBT MUNY? DISNEY HAS A LONG HISTORY OF QUEER DG THEIR VILLAS, WHICH NEGATIVELY AFFECTED THE QUEER MUNY BY PERPETUATG HARMFUL STEREOTYP AND MONIZG QUEER PEOPLE.BUT WHAT IS QUEER DG? WIKIPEDIA F THE TERM AS “A TERM ED TO SAY THAT CHARACTERS WERE GIVEN TRAS/BEHAVRS TO SUGGT THEY ARE NOT HETEROSEXUAL/CISGENR, WHOUT THE CHARACTER BEG OUTRIGHT NFIRMED TO HAVE A QUEER INTY.”QUEER DG SELF IS NOT A NEGATIVE THG. THERE ARE MANY EXAMPL OF WAYS THE TROPE HAS BEEN EXECUTED A WAY THAT DO NOT HARM THE QUEER MUNY. YOSHIHIRO TOGASHI, POPULAR SHONEN MANGA ARTIST AND WRER, HAD TRIED MAKG A SHONEN SERI THAT FEATURED A GAY MA CHARACTER. HOWEVER, BEE OF THE NATURE OF THE GENRE AND THE FACT THAT TOGASHI WAS NOT YET KNOWN, HIS STORY WAS REJECTED. IN ORR TO GET AROUND THE RTRICTNS OF THE MOGRAPHIC, TOGASHI OPTED TO E SUBTEXT AND QUEER-DG STEAD HIS POPULAR SERI, HUNTER X HUNTER. THE WAY HE S KURAPIKA, ONE OF THE MA SUPPORTG CHARACTERS, WAS NOT NEGATIVE BEE WAS NOT BASED ON HARMFUL STEREOTYP.SO HOW DID DISNEY QUEER THEIR VILLAS? WHAT WAS SO WRONG ABOUT ? AND WHY DO EVEN MATTER?DISNEY VILLA’S CODGDISNEY ED STEREOTYPIL SPEECH PATTERNS, MANNERISMS, AND CLOTH TO PICT THEIR SEXUALY. A FEW OF THE VILLAS, LIKE URSULA, WERE EVEN BASED OFF OF REAL LIFE QUEER PEOPLE.URSULA’S QUEER-D TRAS ARE HER MAKP, HER EP VOICE, AND THE FACT THAT SHE IS BASED OFF OF THE REAL LIFE DRAG QUEEN, DIVE. SHE ALSO FALLS TO THE SEXUAL, ALMOST PREDATOR-LIKE LGBT TROPE, UNFORTUNATELY.IT IS EVEN EASIER TO SPOT THIS THE MALE VILLAS. JAFFAR, SR, CAPTA HOOK, HAS, ARE ALL EXAMPL OF CHARACTERS DISNEY MA THAT PERPETUATED THE “SISSY” GAY TROPE. THEY WERE ALL FLAMBOYANT, EFFEMATE PARED TO THEIR MASCULE HERO CHARACTERS, MPY, AND SASSY. SR EVEN HAS LIMP WRISTS.SO WHAT’S THE ISSUE?
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‘THEY/THEM’ REVIEW: PEACK’S GAY CONVERSN CAMP SLASHER SUFFERS FROM AN INTY CRISIS
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