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Hawthorne Lightyear is famed for beg a gay character a Disney film, but shows like Raven's Home and movi like Eternals have featured LGBTQ+.

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17 GAY AND LGBTQ DISNEY CHARACTERS – OM D TO NON TO TASTROPHE

In Pixar’s new animated movie, Lena Wahe plays Officer Spector, the first openly gay character the stud’s movi. Disney’s history of LGBTQ reprentatn is spotty, and the pany needs to do more. * frozen gay character oaken *

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.

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?

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

* frozen gay character oaken *

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?

Bob Chapek mentned Disney creatg "spirg" queer ntent when addrsg the pany’s supposed support of the ntroversial "Don’t Say Gay" bill. Here are all Disney’s official gay moments om movi and TV seri. * frozen gay character oaken *

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.

ONWARD’S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER STILL LEAV DISNEY BEHD S PETORS

<b>Maybe they're gay, maybe they aren't?</b> Eher way the characters are fely part of the LGBTQIA muny. * frozen gay character oaken *

The film’s gay subtext is siarly disguised – but Disney and Pixar arguably break through the ference lookg glass wh Lu.

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.

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'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.

DO YOU THG OAKEN OM FROZEN IS GAY?

Pl: Mary Matal's gay iends are hot for Put (yuck!) * frozen gay character oaken *

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?

16 DISNEY CHARACTERS WHO WERE PROBABLY 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.

DISNEY’S ‘FROZEN’ IS NOT A ‘GAY’ FILM (BUT I WISH WERE)

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.

BURBANK, CA—Rpondg at last to mors surroundg the beloved animated character, Frozen 2 -directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee nfirmed Thursday that Elsa is gay but also a trans-exclnary radil femist.

Some fan theori suggt this is bee she's gay. LeFou (Josh Gad) om Bety and the Beast is perhaps the strongt non LGBTQ character Disney, wh the 2017 remake clearly showg him as gay. Onward, Pixar’s first non-sequel movie sce 2017’s Co, notably featur the stud’s first openly gay character.

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AND NOTICED THAT WHEN OAKEN REFERS TO HIS FAY AT "WANRG OAKEN'S TRADG POST AND SNA," HE POTS TO FOUR KIDS AND A BURLY MAN. THE FERENCE BEG, OF URSE, THAT THE BLOND BOHUNK IS OAKEN'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WE SUPPOSE 'S NOT TOO SURPRISG, SCE THE FILM IS BASED ON HANS CHRISTIAN ANRSEN'S DANISH FAIRY TALE THE SNOW QUEEN, AND DENMARK HAS BEEN ON THE FOREONT OF LGBT EQUALY FOR S. (THEY'VE HAD CIVIL UNNS SCE 1989 AND FALIZED MARRIAGE EQUALY 2012.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH OUT ACTOR JONATHAN GROFF PLAYG KRISTOFF, FROZEN ULD BE DISNEY'S GAYT MOVIE EVER. 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IN 'S STRAIGHT MAN'S GUI TO "LOOKG," FELY FELL TO THE LATTER TEGORY: "INSTEAD OF, SAY, FUNNY, MCG GUYS WH WTY ONE-LERS AND PUT-DOWNS," WR MICK STGLEY, "LOOKG TRODUC THREE HO-HUM CHARACTERS YOU WOULDN'T HANG AROUND WH IF THEY WERE ON SPORTSCENTER."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHY DON'T YOU TELL HOW YOU REALLY FEEL?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN HIS VERDICT, JUDGE STEPHEN REHARDT REFERRED TO WDSOR VS. UNED STAT, THE GROUNDBREAKG 2013 SUPREME COURT SE THAT HELPED DISMANTLE THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN S WORDS AND S ED, WDSOR TABLISHED A LEVEL OF SCTY FOR CLASSIFITNS BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN THAT IS UNQUTNABLY HIGHER THAN RATNAL BASIS REVIEW. 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This one le, livered passg wh no follow-up, marks the first verbal regnn of a character’s gay relatnship an animated Disney movie.

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