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Contents:
- 17 GAY AND LGBTQ DISNEY CHARACTERS – OM D TO NON TO TASTROPHE
- ONWARD’S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER STILL LEAV DISNEY BEHD S PETORS
- HAPPY PRI! THE ARE THE GAYT THGS DISNEY HISTORY
- SO, HOW GAY IS DISNEY’S FROZEN?
- DO YOU THG OAKEN OM FROZEN IS GAY?
17 GAY AND LGBTQ DISNEY CHARACTERS – OM D TO NON TO TASTROPHE
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ONWARD’S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER STILL LEAV DISNEY BEHD S PETORS
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But when the gay actor playg Artie (John McCrea) took ownership of the character (tellg Attu an terview “to me ’s official: he’s queer“) the cricism didn’t really stick. Is Artie gay? Faced wh cricism, the le would have been: a talkg rock and an earrg-wearg billy n’t be gay!
Did the most gged of gay subcultur serve better? There was bate around Disney+ relegatg the gay-centric TV versn of h film Love, Simon to s adult-foced ‘Star’ sectn.
HAPPY PRI! THE ARE THE GAYT THGS DISNEY HISTORY
There was more bate still when a straight actor (Michael Cimo) took on the tular gay role.
We know, we know, has never been nfirmed that Jafar is gay. It’s logil to assume the character is queer-d, for the film rri the DNA of the late lyricist Howard Ashman, who was gay, and whose magil songs, cludg A Whole New World, were creded wh reversg Disney’s wang fortun the 80s/90s. Bety and the Beast director Bill Condon nfirmed Disney’s first “exclively gay moment” a 2017 Attu terview, generatg global headl.
Still, the film brgs reprentatn other ways, om out gay actor Le Evans’ stg as Gaston to Sir Ian McKellen as a Vic-que Cogsworth. The film’s gay subtext is siarly disguised – but Disney and Pixar arguably break through the ference lookg glass wh Lu. When news outlets reported that The Walt Disney Company donated money to legislators who supported Florida’s ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Disney CEO Bob Chapek sent an ternal memo to the pany sayg Disney would still “unequivolly” support s LGBTQ employe.
SO, HOW GAY IS DISNEY’S FROZEN?
In 2017, director Bill Condon, who is gay himself, told Attu Magaze that his versn of Bety and the Beast, Gaston’s henchman LeFou (Josh Gad) would have a csh on Gaston (Le Evans). “It is a nice, exclively gay moment a Disney movie, ” he said.
Two years after g out, Cys also beme the first Disney character to say the words “I’m gay” out loud, when Cys sually told another iend about his sexualy.
“It was important to as we did four of the films, we wanted a gay character somewhere them. Abrams said that of urse gay characters would be g to Star Wars. “When I talk about clivy, ’s not excludg gay characters.
DO YOU THG OAKEN OM FROZEN IS GAY?
Out om director Steven Clay Hunter, who wanted to make a film about his own experienc as a gay man.