Disney’s ntroversial rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill unrsr the pany’s plited history wh the LGBTQ+ muny — a plex relatnship which Disney has played both champn and punchg bag.
Contents:
- DUMBLEDORE IS GAY, BUT SHOULD HE HAVE BEEN?
- WHICH DEMOCRATIC U.S. SENATORS HAVE THE GAYT AND LEAST GAY STAFFS?
- AS MAJOR BRANDS WAVER, GAY WATER AIMS FOR AUTHENTICY
DUMBLEDORE IS GAY, BUT SHOULD HE HAVE BEEN?
* bad gay representation *
Eventually, is revealed that his father died when Waylon was a child, jt fluencg the dience’s assumptns that a man only grows up gay if he don’t have a father his life.
Smhers is the token ‘only gay the village’ of Sprgfield who is ed as a ‘love tert’ for whatever sparse gay characters e to the show for an episo (see the character of John om Homer’s Phobia). Otherwise known as the character through whom Ryan Murphy virly liv, Kurt is the effemate, cryg, fashn-obssed, boy soprano that every straight girl wants as her ‘gay bff’. Inially obssed wh his straight step-brother, and then eventually fdg love wh another gay stereotype, Kurt is the stereotype that has been phed to shows and movi for years.
Cam and Mchell are the sexls, bnch-eatg queens who uld have been one of the bt pictns of a healthy gay relatnship on mastream televisn.
WHICH DEMOCRATIC U.S. SENATORS HAVE THE GAYT AND LEAST GAY STAFFS?
<p>Glaad study says only 17 of 102 major stud films last year featured gay characters, wh the majory of them offensive</p> * bad gay representation *
The episo alt wh Mchell’s aversn to public displays of affectn… So, they blame the gay character and his father’s closed off emotns for the men not kissg. Michael Bay uldn’t be nsired a man who would wre an accurate and/or sympathetic view of homosexualy.
However, that don’t stop this film om pictg gay liftyle even more offensively than you would expect. Though the film is based on a te story, this was not any part of the real storyle so, basilly, Michael Bay jt thought would be hilar to clu an old gay letch and watch him get beaten up by a huge body builr. Another vir dive by Ryan Murphy to the liv of succsful and lovg gay men a mastream show.
It’s also another show riddled wh more stereotyp than you would hope om a gay wrer. Though n be ld for pictg surrogacy and gay parenthood, did they really have to go wh such obv pictns of the ‘man and woman’ relatnship? There are lns of gay people and there are more typ of relatnships than the heteronormative trope of The New Normal.
AS MAJOR BRANDS WAVER, GAY WATER AIMS FOR AUTHENTICY
Sure, had s issu and was fely not perfect, but managed to show at least a few different pictns of gay people. Then Ldsay has sex wh a man bee that’s clearly what lbians do, but eventually the women get back together and take their children to Canada… The land of the gays.
The mpy and, admtedly, terrible film is yet another one which picts gay-for-pay lbianism but the real issue is that of the trans* character, Z-Man.
Willow was already a fan-favore by the time she disvered she was gay durg season four, after fallg love wh fellow wch Tara Maclay (Amber Benson). It is a stretch to clu Alb Dumbledore as an LGBT character nsirg was never mentned throughout the seri that he was gay. Rowlg revealed that the headmaster of Hogwarts was, fact, gay and had been love wh former iend and foe, Gellert Grlwald.