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.
IS FROZEN 2 THE FIRST DISNEY MOVIE WH AN OPENLY GAY LEAD?
Disney faced new gay-bag accatns over the genrfluid-fashn-lovg Artie this year’s Cella. 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. There was more bate still when a straight actor (Michael Cimo) took on the tular gay role.
SO, HOW GAY IS DISNEY’S FROZEN?
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. 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.
IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
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. 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.
DISNEY NOW HAS THE PERFECT OPPORTUNY TO CONFIRM ELSA'S GAY INTY - INSI THE MAGIC
(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.
IS ELSA GAY? WHY FROZEN 2 DON'T ADDRS THE TOPIC
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. And yet, this se the filmmakers have walked that le really well: so well that the pro-gay them have gone right over the heads of untls adult Christian viewers, many of whom have embraced Frozen as ronatg powerfully wh Christian them. 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.
GAY FAY FROZEN?
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.
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. 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. The ia of Elsa beg gay was further enhanced after Disney Animatn released the Frozen 2 trailer durg Pri month 2019, wh the sequel self suggtg a potential future relatnship between Elsa and Honeymaren (Rachel Matthews).