Contents:
- 17 GAY AND LGBTQ DISNEY CHARACTERS – OM D TO NON TO TASTROPHE
- IS FROZEN 2 THE FIRST DISNEY MOVIE WH AN OPENLY GAY LEAD?
- SO, HOW GAY IS DISNEY’S FROZEN?
- IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
- DISNEY NOW HAS THE PERFECT OPPORTUNY TO CONFIRM ELSA'S GAY INTY - INSI THE MAGIC
- IS ELSA GAY? WHY FROZEN 2 DON'T ADDRS THE TOPIC
- GAY FAY FROZEN?
17 GAY AND LGBTQ DISNEY CHARACTERS – OM D TO NON TO TASTROPHE
Oaken's gay fay Hey, did you notice the gay character?
It turns out that giant man "Wanrg Oaken's Tradg Post and Sna" is probably gay. As one cric said at the time of “closeted gay fashnista” Ken: “Pairg homophobia wh misogyny, the jok about Ken suggt that the worst thgs a boy n be are eher a girl or a homosexual. Disney faced more flak 2018 when Jack Whehall, a straight man, was revealed as playg the “hugely effete, very mp” gay man McGregor Jungle Cise.
Disney faced new gay-bag accatns over the genrfluid-fashn-lovg Artie this year’s Cella.
IS FROZEN 2 THE FIRST DISNEY MOVIE WH AN OPENLY GAY LEAD?
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!
SO, HOW GAY IS DISNEY’S FROZEN?
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. 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.
IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
The film’s gay subtext is siarly disguised – but Disney and Pixar arguably break through the ference lookg glass wh Lu.
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.
DISNEY NOW HAS THE PERFECT OPPORTUNY TO CONFIRM ELSA'S GAY INTY - INSI THE MAGIC
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. For now, though, I want to addrs somethg I noted passg my review: the qutn of gay-culture them Frozen.
IS ELSA GAY? WHY FROZEN 2 DON'T ADDRS THE TOPIC
All of this seems to me a) clearly if subtly exprsive of a pro-gay culture at Disney, and b) not that big a al, asmuch as the them are subtle and ambiguo enough not pose eher a signifint annoyance to even savvy parents or a rptg fluence on children. (I would not say that of the pro-gay them the lik of Madagasr 2 or the Happy Feet movi; those are a different tegory, and I do object to them. However, there’s another pro-gay element Frozen worth notg that I origally missed: a fleetg but fe suggtn that a mor character has a fay nsistg of a same-sex partner and a bunch of children.
Oaken’s gay fay. Hey, did you notice the gay character? It turns out that giant man “Wanrg Oaken’s Tradg Post and Sna” is probably gay.
GAY FAY FROZEN?
It seems plsible the filmmakers have thrown this moment to allow sharp-eyed homophile viewers to draw their own nclns about jt what sort of “fay” this is. From the perspective of Hollywood filmmakers, while ’s not yet possible for a mastream fay film to have overtly gay characters or them, the heteronormativy of tradnal children’s entertament has been problematized.
Gay fai and their alli mt take their nsolatns where they n fd them, and ntent themselv for the most part wh wks and nods, hts and subtexts.