Is Frozen 2 the first Disney movie wh an openly gay lead? - CNET

Contents:

• IS FROZEN 2 THE FIRST DISNEY MOVIE WH AN OPENLY GAY LEAD?
• WHY ELSA DON'T HAVE A LOVE STORY, GAY OR OTHERWISE, 'FROZEN 2'
• DISNEY NOW HAS THE PERFECT OPPORTUNY TO CONFIRM ELSA'S GAY INTY - INSI THE MAGIC
• IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
• FROZEN 2 SPOILERS: IS ELSA GAY? ANIMATOR OPENS UP ON LGBTQ REPRENTATN 'IT'S BETIFUL'
• ONWARD’S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER STILL LEAV DISNEY BEHD S PETORS
• COULD ELSA REALLY BE GAY IN FROZEN 2?
• IDA MENZEL TALKS FROZEN 2 AND GAY ELSA
• FROZEN 2: DISNEY'S ELSA SHOULDN'T BE A LBIAN SAY THOANDS OF BACKERS ANTI-GAY PETN
• SNL'S FROZEN 2 'DELETED SCEN' SHOW ELSA COME OUT AS GAY WHILE OLAF, UM, GROWS UP
• FROZEN 2 SPOILERS: IS ELSA GAY? ANIMATOR OPENS UP ON LGBTQ REPRENTATN 'IT'S BETIFUL'

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

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.

WHY ELSA DON'T HAVE A LOVE STORY, GAY OR OTHERWISE, 'FROZEN 2'

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. Y, people actually are terted whether the Disney character is gay.

DISNEY NOW HAS THE PERFECT OPPORTUNY TO CONFIRM ELSA'S GAY INTY - INSI THE MAGIC

And would Elsa be revealed as a gay character? The first film read as queer enough that homophobic bloggers acced Disney of doctratg children wh the gay agenda the wake of s release, and queer fans (myself clud, although I didn’t know at the time) latched onto Elsa as the potential first queer Disney prcs.

” But “Show Yourself” is arguably “Let It Go”’s spirual succsor: while the soundtrack’s lead sgle, “Into the Unknown, ” was created for the charts and awards shows, “Show Yourself” is Frozen 2’s gay anthem. Asi om the surface-level “Elsa cis to follow a myster, pellg female voice” (which is already, uh, pretty gay), the unrlyg msage and risk volved mak Elsa’s story feel like a g-out arc om the get-go. It’s all jt about as gay as pure subtext gets.

Some subsectn of the fandom has wanted Elsa to be gay sce Frozen premiered 2013. Joe Rso playg a gay member of Capta Ameri’s support group Avengers: Endgame do not unt. Neher do LeFou’s “exclively gay moment” 2017’s Bety and the Beast.

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

Elsa’s gay character arc crystalliz “Show Yourself, ” which absolutely reads like the queer anthem fans want to be.

FROZEN 2 SPOILERS: IS ELSA GAY? ANIMATOR OPENS UP ON LGBTQ REPRENTATN 'IT'S BETIFUL'

"Dpe many popular theori that Queen Elsa "Frozen" is gay, she don't have any love tert "Frozen 2.

Ever sce "Frozen" premiered 2013, people the LGBTQ muny have found Queen Elsa's story to be a powerful allegory for queer inty, and hoped she might be given a gay love tert the g Elsa don't have any type of romantic partner the upg movie, spe the popular fan theori about her sexualy. "But far om givg the whole story away, the trailer also teased a new directn the film might take, one that fans have been hopg for ever sce Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee’s animated h first dropped 2013… the Snow Queen will fally e out as gay.

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

What’s more, some have suggted Elsa’s lourful transformatn is another ht towards the gay Disney storyle we’ve all been wag for.

Historilly, Disney hasn’t been the bt for gay, bi and trans reprentatn. DisneyBut Elsa’s not the only not-so-secret gay character troduced the film.

DisneySo much so that #GiveElsaAGirliend ntu to trend on Twter, wh hundreds of fans askg Disney to nfirm Elsa as an openly gay character the sequel. ”Whatever route Elsa’s arc tak the sequel, ’s clear the world is more than ready for a gay Disney Prcs – Frozen 2 might fally be the time for the Snow Queen to let go. 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).

COULD ELSA REALLY BE GAY IN FROZEN 2?

While Disney didn’t exprsly nfirm Elsa’s LGBTQ+ inty the Frozen anchise, the Queer-dg led fans to believe she was gay. There has been a shift, though, Disney animatn, as the stud announced that the upg Strange World (2023) will feature Disney’s first openly gay teen romance.

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. 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.

IDA MENZEL TALKS FROZEN 2 AND GAY ELSA

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.

“I know I n’t make any statements to Elsa’s sexualy bee I’ve always been told she is a character not fed by her 'T MISSFrozen 2 - is Elsa gay? ”The animators on Frozen 2 clearly have not been told explicly whether Elsa is gay but for Malerie, the way the characters are created through the work of multiple partments at Disney is what allows them to feel so real and genue for fans om all walks of said: “I would also like to shout out the tails that go to Anna and Elsa’s stumg most of the cred gets put on the animatn partment but there are so many other partments that make everythg look so betiful, even down to makg sure the cloth simulatn looks wonrful.

Marvel's first gay superhero might have a hband and kids, but the same n't be said for another Disney-owned superpowered character. While many of were holdg out hope that Frozen II would make good on Elsa's queer subtext, the film's songwrer has said unequivolly that Elsa won't have a love tert the sequel, squashg the mors that Evan Rachel Wood's character is Elsa's girliend (she's actually playg Elsa and Anna's mother flashback scen) an terview wh IGN, Frozen II songwrer Kristen Anrson-Lopez broke our gay ltle hearts. Onward, Pixar’s first non-sequel movie sce 2017’s Co, notably featur the stud’s first openly gay character.

FROZEN 2: DISNEY'S ELSA SHOULDN'T BE A LBIAN SAY THOANDS OF BACKERS ANTI-GAY PETN

This one le, livered passg wh no follow-up, marks the first verbal regnn of a character’s gay relatnship an animated Disney movie.

Elsa’s new ballad, “Show Yourself, ” sound pretty dang gay. Whether animators vertly add those gay moments, or ’s jt fans projectg, the bt-se scenar for Disney is to let LGBTQ muni celebrate potentially gay characters whout the pany havg to acknowledge their queerns. Disney’s dience is huge, and unfortunately, clus vol homophob — both the Stat and ternatnal markets, cludg untri where beg gay n land you jail — as well as queer viewers sperate for reprentatn.

A nice gay moment. Thanks large part to lobbyg om fans, Disney started featurg explicly gay characters recent years — mostly blk-and-you’ll-miss- moments.

SNL'S FROZEN 2 'DELETED SCEN' SHOW ELSA COME OUT AS GAY WHILE OLAF, UM, GROWS UP

Back 2017, director Bill Condon ma headl when he announced that his live-actn Bety and the Beast remake would feature “a nice, exclively gay moment” urty of Josh Gad’s LeFou.

FROZEN 2 SPOILERS: IS ELSA GAY? ANIMATOR OPENS UP ON LGBTQ REPRENTATN 'IT'S BETIFUL'

The obsequ sikick to Bety and the Beast’s Gaston had always been spected of admirg the swaggerg villa as more than jt a ra, but acrdg to Condon (who is openly gay himself), his versn of LeFou would be explicly cshg on Gaston.