Is Frozen 2 the first Disney movie wh an openly gay lead? - CNET

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• IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
• IS ‘FROZEN’ THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR?HI YOUR KIDS! ANTI-GAY NSPIRACY THEORISTS WARN THAT THE CRILLY-ACCLAIMED RTOON IS ACTUALLY HOMOSEXUAL PROPAGANDA.CAL DICKSONUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 1:13PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 12, 2014 5:45AM EDT DISNEYFROZEN MIGHT JT BE THE MOST TALKED-ABOUT KIDS MOVIE SCE TOY STORY, BUT ’S NOT ALL ACLAS AND AWARDS FOR THE OSR-WNG ANIMATED FLICK. THERE IS A FEAR MPAIGN MOUNTG AGAST THE FILM, WARNG NSERVATIVE PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS TO KEEP THEIR IMPRSNABLE YOUNG CHILDREN AWAY OM WHAT SOME BELIEVE IS A MIL ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE GAY AGENDA. IT SEEMS TO HAVE STARTED WH KATHRYN SKAGGS WHO, ACRDG TO THE TLE OF HER BLOG, IS “A WELL-BEHAVED MORMON WOMAN.” AFTER BEG DRAGGED AGAST HER WILL THREE DIFFERENT TIM BY THREE SETS OF GRANDCHILDREN TO SEE FROZEN, SKAGGS ULDN’T “LET IT GO” ANY LONGER. AFTER THE THIRD VIEWG SHE WAS NVCED: THIS BELOVED MOVIE, WH S TOP-NOTCH ANIMATN AND S TCHY THEME SONG DON’T JT HAVE HOMOSEXUAL UNRTON (WHAT DISNEY MOVIE DON’T?) BUT IS 108 MUT OF PURE GAY PROPAGANDA!“IT IS APPARENT THAT THE VERY BT TALENT WH THE DTRY WAS LLED UPON FOR EVERY FACET OF PRODUCG AND BRGG [FROZEN] TO THE BIG SCREEN: ILLTRATORS; ANIMATORS; WRERS; POSERS; SGG ARTIST; ACTORS; ETC., ORR TO WOO S TEND DIENCE, PARENTS, TO A OZEN-STATE, WHICH WOULD THEN ALLOW LIBERALISM TO DOCTRATE CHILDREN,” SKAGGS WROTE LENGTHY BLOG POST LAST MONTH. MOST OF THE REACTNS TO SKAGGS’ CLAIMS THAT THE EVIL GENI AT DISNEY HAD DUPED CHRISTIAN PARENTS ACROSS THE UNTRY TO ALLOWG FROZEN TO BRAWASH THEIR CHILDREN TO SUPPORTG THE “NORMALIZATN OF SAME-SEX SEXUAL BEHAVR”—OR WORSE, TURN THEM GAY—HAVE BEEN CRICIZED, DISMISSED AND MOCKED THE INTER OVER. YET, AS IS OFTEN THE SE WH OUTRAGEO, POLILLY-CHARGED NSPIRACY THEORI, SOMEONE WAS BOUND TO BE.“IF I WAS THE DEVIL, WHAT WOULD I DO TO REALLY FOUL UP AN ENTIRE SOCIAL SYSTEM AND DO SOMETHG REALLY, REALLY, REALLY EVIL TO FIVE- AND SIX- AND SEVEN-YEAR-OLDS CHRISTIAN FAI AROUND AMERI?” PASTOR AND RIGHT-WG RAD HOST KEV SWANSON ASKED ON HIS SHOW MONDAY. “I WOULD BUY DISNEY.”HE NTUED, “I WONR IF PEOPLE ARE THKG: ‘YOU KNOW I THK THIS CUTE LTLE MOVIE IS GOG TO DOCTRATE MY FIVE-YEAR-OLD TO BE A LBIAN OR TREAT HOMOSEXUALY OR BTIALY A LIGHT SORT OF WAY.’ I WONR IF THE AVERAGE PARENT GOG TO SEE FROZEN IS THKG THAT WAY. I WONR IF THEY ARE JT WALKG AND SAYG, ‘YEAH, LET’S GET MY FIVE-YEAR-OLD AND SEVEN-YEAR-OLD DOCTRATED EARLY.’ YOU KNOW THEY’RE NOT, I THK FOR THE MOST PART THEY’RE OBLIV. MAYBE THEY DO PICK UP ON PIEC OF , BUT THEY JT DON’T GET UP AND WALK OUT.”LIKE SKAGGS, NEHER SWANSON NOR HIS -HOST STEVE VGHN, OFFER MUCH THE WAY OF SPECIFIC EXAMPL OF L, SCEN OR EVEN THEM THE MOVIE THAT PROVE THEIR POT. IN FACT, THE ONLY PROOF OF “GAY MSAGG” SKAGGS PROVIS IS THE SUGGTN THAT THE MA CHARACTER ELSA’S MAGIL POWER IS A METAPHOR FOR HOMOSEXUALY: SHE IS OSTRACIZED BY THE PUBLIC AND EVEN HER FAY, JT LIKE THE “MONIZATN OF HOMOSEXUALS BY SOCIETY.” ELSA’S NON-MAGIL SISTER ANNA’S SHOTGUN WEDDG TO SOMEONE SHE BARELY KNOWS IS MEANT TO ILLTRATE HOW “HETEROSEXUALS DIMISH MARRIAGE.” AND, OF URSE, THE HAPPY ENDG WHERE ELSA’S FAY AND MUNY FALLY ACCEPT HER FOR WHO SHE IS SENDS THE MSAGE THAT GAYS (ELSA) ARE NOT THE PROBLEM, BUT RATHER SOCIETY IS THE PROBLEM FOR REJECTG THEM.NATNAL CATHOLIC REGISTER WRER STEVEN GREYDAN (WHO ACTUALLY QUTNED FROZEN’S GAYNS BACK JANUARY) NOT ONLY SAW THE REJECTED ELSA AS A SYMBOL FOR OPPRSED GAY PEOPLE, HE ALSO POTS OUT THAT ELSA, UNLIKE HER BOYCRAZY SISTER, SHOWS NO TERT DATG, SO CLEARLY SHE IS A LBIAN. IF THAT’S NOT ENOUGH, FOLLOWG THE CLOSG CREDS “ELSA’S GIANT, MALE-VOICED SNOW MONSTER, WANRG THROUGH HER ABANDONED ICE PALACE, PICKS UP HER ABANDONED TIARA AND PLAC DATILY ON HIS OWN HEAD, SG AS DISVERS S TE NER PRCS.”DISNEY HAS A LONG HISTORY OF FIELDG ACCATNS OF G S CHILDREN’S MOVI TO ADVANCE ONE LIBERAL AGENDA OR ANOTHER —WHETHER ’S GAY RIGHTS, ENVIRONMENTALISM OR SOCIALISM. HOWEVER, THERE SEEMS TO BE SOMETHG ABOUT FROZEN THAT HAS ATTRACTED MORE THAN THE UAL AMOUNT OF NTROVERSY FOR A KIDS’ RTOON.FROZEN IS A FEMIST MOVIE, CLAIMED SOME CRICS, BEE NEHER OF S FEMALE PROTAGONISTS ARE RCUED BY A HANDSOME PRCE THE END BUT, RATHER, THEY SAVE THEMSELV. FROZEN IS NOT SO FEMIST, OTHERS ARGUED, BEE ELSA’S CLIMACTIC “G OUT,” IF YOU WILL, CLUS AN ARGUABLY SEXY MAKEOVER. OTHERS STILL TOOK THE TIME TO LL FROZEN RACIST, ACCG DISNEY OF “WHEWASHG” THE DIGENO PEOPLE OF SNDAVIA, WHERE THE ANIMATED FILM IS SUPPOSED TO TAKE PLACE. AND THIS WAS ALL BEFORE JOHN TRAVOLTA EPILLY FLUBBED SGER IDA MENZEL’S NAME, CREATG A FICTNAL PERSON AND IMMEDIATELY OVERPLAYED MEME, AT THE AMY AWARDS. THOSE FEARG FROZEN’S HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA MIGHT WANT TO NSIR THE AGENDAS OF S CRICS. KEV SWANSON, FOR EXAMPLE, CLARED THAT “NT HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY,” MARIJUANA LEGALIZATN AND ABORTN RIGHTS WERE TO BLAME FOR THE FLOODS THAT VASTATED COLORADO LAST SUMMER. AND SPE SISTG HER FROZEN POST THAT SHE IS “NOT ANTI-GAY” NOR “HERE TO JUDGE HOMOSEXUALS,” KATHRYN SKAGGS HAS DITED A LARGE NUMBER OF HER BLOG POSTS TO ADVOTG FOR “TRADNAL MARRIAGE.” THEN AGA, IF YOU’RE LEGIMATELY NCERNED ABOUT A DISNEY MOVIE TURNG YOUR CHILDREN GAY, YOU MIGHT BE JT THE CHOIR SWANSON AND SKAGGS ARE PREACHG TO. CAL DICKSON
• DISNEY’S ‘FROZEN’ IS NOT A ‘GAY’ FILM (BUT I WISH WERE)
• IS FROZEN 2 THE FIRST DISNEY MOVIE WH AN OPENLY GAY LEAD?
• RIGHT-WGERS CALL FROZEN A GAY INDOCTRATN FILM

IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY

It's Not Jt Frozen: Most Disney Movi Are Pro-GayBy preachg acceptance and qutng genr, the pany's kids films offer a queer-studi crash urse. Elsa hidg her ice-powers uld be read as a metaphor for the closet, the Osr-wng “Let Go” plays like a g-out anthem, and a character the film evok the qutn of whether homosexualy is a choice by quirg of Elsa’s powers, “born wh or cursed? Through both s rporate practic and the ntent of s films, Disney for s has implemented the so-lled "gay agenda"—which is to say, helpg make the world a more acceptg start the most obv place: As a bs, Disney has long held a progrsive attu toward LGBT people.

Gay pri events have been hosted at Disney World sce 1991, and the pany started offered s gay employe health surance benefs for their partners sce 1995, a cisn that wasn’t entirely popular back of the most poignant exampl of the pany’s tolerant atmosphere is the se of lyricist Howard Ashman, who was openly gay and died of AIDS 1991.

IS ‘FROZEN’ THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR?HI YOUR KIDS! ANTI-GAY NSPIRACY THEORISTS WARN THAT THE CRILLY-ACCLAIMED RTOON IS ACTUALLY HOMOSEXUAL PROPAGANDA.CAL DICKSONUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 1:13PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 12, 2014 5:45AM EDT DISNEYFROZEN MIGHT JT BE THE MOST TALKED-ABOUT KIDS MOVIE SCE TOY STORY, BUT ’S NOT ALL ACLAS AND AWARDS FOR THE OSR-WNG ANIMATED FLICK. THERE IS A FEAR MPAIGN MOUNTG AGAST THE FILM, WARNG NSERVATIVE PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS TO KEEP THEIR IMPRSNABLE YOUNG CHILDREN AWAY OM WHAT SOME BELIEVE IS A MIL ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE GAY AGENDA. IT SEEMS TO HAVE STARTED WH KATHRYN SKAGGS WHO, ACRDG TO THE TLE OF HER BLOG, IS “A WELL-BEHAVED MORMON WOMAN.” AFTER BEG DRAGGED AGAST HER WILL THREE DIFFERENT TIM BY THREE SETS OF GRANDCHILDREN TO SEE FROZEN, SKAGGS ULDN’T “LET IT GO” ANY LONGER. AFTER THE THIRD VIEWG SHE WAS NVCED: THIS BELOVED MOVIE, WH S TOP-NOTCH ANIMATN AND S TCHY THEME SONG DON’T JT HAVE HOMOSEXUAL UNRTON (WHAT DISNEY MOVIE DON’T?) BUT IS 108 MUT OF PURE GAY PROPAGANDA!“IT IS APPARENT THAT THE VERY BT TALENT WH THE DTRY WAS LLED UPON FOR EVERY FACET OF PRODUCG AND BRGG [FROZEN] TO THE BIG SCREEN: ILLTRATORS; ANIMATORS; WRERS; POSERS; SGG ARTIST; ACTORS; ETC., ORR TO WOO S TEND DIENCE, PARENTS, TO A OZEN-STATE, WHICH WOULD THEN ALLOW LIBERALISM TO DOCTRATE CHILDREN,” SKAGGS WROTE LENGTHY BLOG POST LAST MONTH. MOST OF THE REACTNS TO SKAGGS’ CLAIMS THAT THE EVIL GENI AT DISNEY HAD DUPED CHRISTIAN PARENTS ACROSS THE UNTRY TO ALLOWG FROZEN TO BRAWASH THEIR CHILDREN TO SUPPORTG THE “NORMALIZATN OF SAME-SEX SEXUAL BEHAVR”—OR WORSE, TURN THEM GAY—HAVE BEEN CRICIZED, DISMISSED AND MOCKED THE INTER OVER. YET, AS IS OFTEN THE SE WH OUTRAGEO, POLILLY-CHARGED NSPIRACY THEORI, SOMEONE WAS BOUND TO BE.“IF I WAS THE DEVIL, WHAT WOULD I DO TO REALLY FOUL UP AN ENTIRE SOCIAL SYSTEM AND DO SOMETHG REALLY, REALLY, REALLY EVIL TO FIVE- AND SIX- AND SEVEN-YEAR-OLDS CHRISTIAN FAI AROUND AMERI?” PASTOR AND RIGHT-WG RAD HOST KEV SWANSON ASKED ON HIS SHOW MONDAY. “I WOULD BUY DISNEY.”HE NTUED, “I WONR IF PEOPLE ARE THKG: ‘YOU KNOW I THK THIS CUTE LTLE MOVIE IS GOG TO DOCTRATE MY FIVE-YEAR-OLD TO BE A LBIAN OR TREAT HOMOSEXUALY OR BTIALY A LIGHT SORT OF WAY.’ I WONR IF THE AVERAGE PARENT GOG TO SEE FROZEN IS THKG THAT WAY. I WONR IF THEY ARE JT WALKG AND SAYG, ‘YEAH, LET’S GET MY FIVE-YEAR-OLD AND SEVEN-YEAR-OLD DOCTRATED EARLY.’ YOU KNOW THEY’RE NOT, I THK FOR THE MOST PART THEY’RE OBLIV. MAYBE THEY DO PICK UP ON PIEC OF , BUT THEY JT DON’T GET UP AND WALK OUT.”LIKE SKAGGS, NEHER SWANSON NOR HIS -HOST STEVE VGHN, OFFER MUCH THE WAY OF SPECIFIC EXAMPL OF L, SCEN OR EVEN THEM THE MOVIE THAT PROVE THEIR POT. IN FACT, THE ONLY PROOF OF “GAY MSAGG” SKAGGS PROVIS IS THE SUGGTN THAT THE MA CHARACTER ELSA’S MAGIL POWER IS A METAPHOR FOR HOMOSEXUALY: SHE IS OSTRACIZED BY THE PUBLIC AND EVEN HER FAY, JT LIKE THE “MONIZATN OF HOMOSEXUALS BY SOCIETY.” ELSA’S NON-MAGIL SISTER ANNA’S SHOTGUN WEDDG TO SOMEONE SHE BARELY KNOWS IS MEANT TO ILLTRATE HOW “HETEROSEXUALS DIMISH MARRIAGE.” AND, OF URSE, THE HAPPY ENDG WHERE ELSA’S FAY AND MUNY FALLY ACCEPT HER FOR WHO SHE IS SENDS THE MSAGE THAT GAYS (ELSA) ARE NOT THE PROBLEM, BUT RATHER SOCIETY IS THE PROBLEM FOR REJECTG THEM.NATNAL CATHOLIC REGISTER WRER STEVEN GREYDAN (WHO ACTUALLY QUTNED FROZEN’S GAYNS BACK JANUARY) NOT ONLY SAW THE REJECTED ELSA AS A SYMBOL FOR OPPRSED GAY PEOPLE, HE ALSO POTS OUT THAT ELSA, UNLIKE HER BOYCRAZY SISTER, SHOWS NO TERT DATG, SO CLEARLY SHE IS A LBIAN. IF THAT’S NOT ENOUGH, FOLLOWG THE CLOSG CREDS “ELSA’S GIANT, MALE-VOICED SNOW MONSTER, WANRG THROUGH HER ABANDONED ICE PALACE, PICKS UP HER ABANDONED TIARA AND PLAC DATILY ON HIS OWN HEAD, SG AS DISVERS S TE NER PRCS.”DISNEY HAS A LONG HISTORY OF FIELDG ACCATNS OF G S CHILDREN’S MOVI TO ADVANCE ONE LIBERAL AGENDA OR ANOTHER —WHETHER ’S GAY RIGHTS, ENVIRONMENTALISM OR SOCIALISM. HOWEVER, THERE SEEMS TO BE SOMETHG ABOUT FROZEN THAT HAS ATTRACTED MORE THAN THE UAL AMOUNT OF NTROVERSY FOR A KIDS’ RTOON.FROZEN IS A FEMIST MOVIE, CLAIMED SOME CRICS, BEE NEHER OF S FEMALE PROTAGONISTS ARE RCUED BY A HANDSOME PRCE THE END BUT, RATHER, THEY SAVE THEMSELV. FROZEN IS NOT SO FEMIST, OTHERS ARGUED, BEE ELSA’S CLIMACTIC “G OUT,” IF YOU WILL, CLUS AN ARGUABLY SEXY MAKEOVER. OTHERS STILL TOOK THE TIME TO LL FROZEN RACIST, ACCG DISNEY OF “WHEWASHG” THE DIGENO PEOPLE OF SNDAVIA, WHERE THE ANIMATED FILM IS SUPPOSED TO TAKE PLACE. AND THIS WAS ALL BEFORE JOHN TRAVOLTA EPILLY FLUBBED SGER IDA MENZEL’S NAME, CREATG A FICTNAL PERSON AND IMMEDIATELY OVERPLAYED MEME, AT THE AMY AWARDS. THOSE FEARG FROZEN’S HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA MIGHT WANT TO NSIR THE AGENDAS OF S CRICS. KEV SWANSON, FOR EXAMPLE, CLARED THAT “NT HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY,” MARIJUANA LEGALIZATN AND ABORTN RIGHTS WERE TO BLAME FOR THE FLOODS THAT VASTATED COLORADO LAST SUMMER. AND SPE SISTG HER FROZEN POST THAT SHE IS “NOT ANTI-GAY” NOR “HERE TO JUDGE HOMOSEXUALS,” KATHRYN SKAGGS HAS DITED A LARGE NUMBER OF HER BLOG POSTS TO ADVOTG FOR “TRADNAL MARRIAGE.” THEN AGA, IF YOU’RE LEGIMATELY NCERNED ABOUT A DISNEY MOVIE TURNG YOUR CHILDREN GAY, YOU MIGHT BE JT THE CHOIR SWANSON AND SKAGGS ARE PREACHG TO. CAL DICKSON

In this way, even though Disney films ually offer a tradnal happy endg wh a heterosexual marriage, the journey always volv rejectg parental and societal expectatns, and exercisg a “eedom to marry whomever you love” spir that is enmic to gay, many Disney romanc are exampl of “impossible sire, ” a trope that is ccial to the queer experience, as genr-studi theorist Heather Love argued Feelg Backward.

DISNEY’S ‘FROZEN’ IS NOT A ‘GAY’ FILM (BUT I WISH WERE)

In The Queer Child Kathryn Bond Stockton argu that queerns is not jt about homosexualy, but also about growg abnormal ways that mak the child an outst. Outsi the film, Let It Go is also a g-out anthem for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people: “Conceal don’t feel, don’t let them know/ Well now they know!

IS FROZEN 2 THE FIRST DISNEY MOVIE WH AN OPENLY GAY LEAD?

A Christian film reviewer says that ntrary to one pastor's claim that Frozen has a "homosexual agenda, " Disney's popular film actually offers a "rponsible and fay iendly" msage.

"For all that Asay sought to praise, Pastor Kev Swanson, the host of a weekly program on the Colorado-based Generatns Rad, strongly censured the film - even though he adms he had not seen - suggtg that was a tool of Disney, which he scribed as "probably one of the most pro-homosexual anizatns the untry. I wonr if people are thkg: 'You know I thk this cute ltle movie is gog to doctrate my 5-year-old to be a lbian or treat homosexualy or btialy a light sort of way', " said Swanson.

RIGHT-WGERS CALL FROZEN A GAY INDOCTRATN FILM

"In ntrast, Asay, who reviewed the film for his se, said that "you would really need to ph" to suggt that the film's empowerment msage "uld be taken as some gay-iendly metaphor. ""I thk you have to remember that the msag - that ''s okay be different' - far predate the sort of drive for gay equaly that we fd now — far, far predate , " said Asay. I thk that when you look at Elsa's story, I took not as any gay metaphor but really talkg a lot about what almost all kids feel as they go through adolcence.

«To be onelf» and a curg love theme lead here to a more narrow directn: to a theme of homosexualy and acceptg by a society – slightly speakg: not so childish theme a child rtoon.