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ARE TIMON AND PUMBAA OM 'THE LN KG' GAY?
"I don’t re if Bert and Ernie are gay. I want to see actual gay people," said the edian, who voic Timon the Disney remake. * gay lion king *
” The character was famoly origated by openly gay actor Nathan Lane, five years before g out publicly The Advote 1999. Eichner, who is also gay, recently spoke to Buzzfeed about takg on a role so fed by another actor.
“I’m glad that [director] Jon Favre kept the tradn of Timon beg played by a gay actor, wh a certa type of edic sensibily, alive, ” Eichner said.
“Gay people always had to sort of search for the closeted gay character, bee there were no openly gay characters, and we were so thirsty for them, ” he said.
"Jafar's orig story is that he's gay and pissed." * gay lion king *
“People are always tryg to fd the gay character animated movi. I thk the way to rrect that is to actually put gay characters animated movi.
Takg a swipe at the first of Disney’s live-actn remak, Eichner referenced the blk-and-you’ll-miss- “exclively gay moment” (as touted by the movie’s out gay director Bill Condon) 2017’s “Bety and the Beast. “I would love to see a world where we don’t have to argue about, you know, whether what’s his name ‘Bety and the Beast’ is gay or not. It jt should be gay, ” he said.
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I don’t re if Bert and Ernie are gay. I want to see actual gay people that are not a mystery. The way to move on om all those bat is to jt create openly gay characters children’s programmg and fay entertament.