Is Elsa gay? That’s the qutn ‘Frozen’ fans are askg ahead of the ‘Frozen II’ release and followg a 2016 Twter mpaign lled #GetElsaAGirliend.
Contents:
- ‘I’M NOT GAY NO MORE’ VIRAL STAR ‘ASSLTED WH OZEN YOGHURT’ BIZARRE CINT
- IS FROZEN 2 THE FIRST DISNEY MOVIE WH AN OPENLY GAY LEAD?
- IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
- SO, HOW GAY IS DISNEY’S FROZEN?
‘I’M NOT GAY NO MORE’ VIRAL STAR ‘ASSLTED WH OZEN YOGHURT’ BIZARRE CINT
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A man who shot to fame on the ter after renouncg his homosexualy at a fah healg event claims to have been attacked wh ozen yoghurt over the clip. A clip went viral November of Andrew Caldwell beg ‘livered’ om homosexualy at a Church of God Christ (COGIC) event.
In the origal clip, which the church later pulled offle due to a pyright dispute, he clared: “I’m not gay no more.
Of Mr Caldwell’s claim that she ed homophobic language, she replied: “That is not te, bee I’m gay… everybody here that I work wh knows I’m gay. movie wh an openly gay won't reveal anythg about the plot of the animated sequel, which opens the US and UK on Friday and Atralia Nov.
IS FROZEN 2 THE FIRST DISNEY MOVIE WH AN OPENLY GAY LEAD?
Disney's first official gay character appeared the 2017 live-actn remake of Bety and the Beast, which LeFou (Josh Gad) has a csh on Gaston (Le Evans) and danc wh another man.
Disney AnimatnMeanwhile, Jack Whehall is set to play the first major Disney character to be explicly gay the upg Jungle Cise, which opens July 2020. 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.
IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
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.
SO, HOW GAY IS DISNEY’S FROZEN?
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. For now, though, I want to addrs somethg I noted passg my review: the qutn of gay-culture them Frozen.