Gay Subtext Frozen and Other Disney Films: Whose Agenda is It, Anyway? | The Artifice

Contents:

• DISNEY'S FROZEN AND THE 'GAY AGENDA'
• IS FROZEN 2 THE FIRST DISNEY MOVIE WH AN OPENLY GAY LEAD?
• ‘FROZEN’ GAY CONSPIRACY THEORY
• GAY SUBTEXT FROZEN AND OTHER DISNEY FILMS: WHOSE AGENDA IS IT, ANYWAY?
• 8 WAYS FROZEN IS DISNEY’S GAYT ANIMATED FILM YET
• GAY ACTIVISTS LOBBY DISNEY TO MAKE ELSA A LBIAN FROZEN 2
• IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY

DISNEY'S FROZEN AND THE 'GAY AGENDA'

Swanson ntends the film doctrat young women to be lbians and nvc people that homosexualy and btialy are acceptable Swanson don't specifilly ce what parts of the film he se as promotg homosexualy, others have drawn parallels between the kgdom's rejectn of the magil powers of one of the ma characters, Elsa, and society's rejectn of homosexualy.

IS FROZEN 2 THE FIRST DISNEY MOVIE WH AN OPENLY GAY LEAD?

"Disney has a long history of fieldg accatns of g s children's movi to advance one liberal agenda or another - whether 's gay rights, environmentalism or socialism, " wr the Daily Beast's Cal Dickson.

If you look hard enough, he says, you n fd a hidn homosexual agenda almost any song, movie or any other work of art. She had a post assertg a myriad of ways that the film advot for "the gay agenda" and statg that she won’t “let go.

‘FROZEN’ GAY CONSPIRACY THEORY

And this is how divisive the so-lled "homosexual agenda is right now": some people don’t unrstand why we are still talkg about this, while others are so aaid of homosexualy that they will project their fear onto anythg pop culture.

GAY SUBTEXT FROZEN AND OTHER DISNEY FILMS: WHOSE AGENDA IS IT, ANYWAY?

They nsir even their simple sire to unrstand more about homosexualy, possibly mixed wh their own homosexual tennci, to be so unbelievably unacceptable that they mt acce others of tentnally tryg to unrme their self-ntrol. Some people watch Frozen and thk is obvly about the "lbian agenda, " bee they, those particular viewers, are themselv obssed wh worry over the creased social acceptance of homosexualy. 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.

8 WAYS FROZEN IS DISNEY’S GAYT ANIMATED FILM YET

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.

GAY ACTIVISTS LOBBY DISNEY TO MAKE ELSA A LBIAN FROZEN 2

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. (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'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY

It turns out that giant man “Wanrg Oaken’s Tradg Post and Sna” is probably gay. 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.