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Contents:

• ELSA GAY AND HAS GIRLIEND ‘FROZEN 3,’ ACRDG TO SOURC
• DISNEY NOW HAS THE PERFECT OPPORTUNY TO CONFIRM ELSA'S GAY INTY - INSI THE MAGIC
• IS FROZEN 2 THE FIRST DISNEY MOVIE WH AN OPENLY GAY LEAD?
• BEN SHAPIRO PREDICTS THAT GAY ‘FROZEN’ SEQUEL WILL SPARK DISNEY’S DOWNFALL
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• IS ELSA GAY? WHY FROZEN 2 DON'T ADDRS THE TOPIC
• DISNEY RUMORED TO MAKE POPULAR ‘FROZEN’ CHARACTER GAY THIRD INSTALLMENT
• SO, HOW GAY IS DISNEY’S FROZEN?
• FROZEN 3 IS DISNEY'S PERFECT CHANCE TO INTRODUCE A GAY PRCS

ELSA GAY AND HAS GIRLIEND ‘FROZEN 3,’ ACRDG TO SOURC

What was remarkable, though, was s cln of Disney’s first openly gay teen character, Ethan Cla played by Jaboie Young-Whe. Or will Frozen III pick up directly after the events of the sophomore movie?

In the origal film, the ice queen’s sister Anna (played by Kristen Bell) got all the love-story actn, leavg many the LGBTQ muny hopg and wonrg if Elsa might be gay. Elsa Gay and Has a Girliend Frozen 3. Wh there beg six years between the first and send movi, Frozen 3 is likely far om g to un—but this wouldn’t be the first move Disney has ma to ph a homosexual agenda.

Acrdg to Fahwire, “The Disney Channel ma history 2017 when Joshua Ryan, who played Cys the ‘Andi Mack’ seri, beme the first character to utter the phrase, ‘I’m gay. In the same year, Disney stirred up major ntroversy when they promoted an “exclively gay moment” Bety and the Beast, between LeFou and a henchman drsed as a woman. 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).

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

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.

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

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. 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.

BEN SHAPIRO PREDICTS THAT GAY ‘FROZEN’ SEQUEL WILL SPARK DISNEY’S DOWNFALL

Shapiro isn’t the first to terpret Elsa as gay; ever sce Frozen was released, Elsa has been herald as a queer in, as her story is that of reprsed inty (her ice powers), which fally emerge durg her inic “Let It Go” scene. Matos wrote: “Elsa’s treatment is also eerily remiscent of practic that take place durg the procs of gay nversn therapy, which subjects are ndned through medative and repetive procs to supprs certa urg and sir that occur naturally. Shapiro’s fear of an imaged gay Frozen sequel me the midst of his rant about Bud Light, which recently igned a lengthy, ranged backlash after partnerg wh TikTok star and trans activist Dylan Mulvaney to promote the beer on social media.

Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. While rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people. ”In July 2019, two gay men om St.

Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. ”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir suici. Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

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

It is hard for me as a gay this untry. ”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people.

That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable.

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. 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.

IS ELSA GAY? WHY FROZEN 2 DON'T ADDRS THE TOPIC

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?

DISNEY RUMORED TO MAKE POPULAR ‘FROZEN’ CHARACTER GAY THIRD INSTALLMENT

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.

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.

” Fergon then go on to reference Disney’s 2018 live actn “Bety and the Beast” remake, where Gaston’s lackie LaFou was revealed to be Disney’s first openly gay character. A group of "gay furry" hackers has been releasg rmatn om US state ernments. SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola.

SO, HOW GAY IS DISNEY’S FROZEN?

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RELATED | Sorry, Gays, Elsa Won't Have a Girliend Frozen 2. Ida Menzel, who voic the character, appeared on The Ellen DeGener Show (via Entertament Weekly) September 2016 and voiced her support for the ia of Elsa beg revealed as gay. It's a wonrful nversatn that we should all have about whether a Disney prcs or queen uld be gay, " Menzel said at the time, although she later noted that she uldn't promise would actually happen.

The stud allegedly feared that if Frozen 2 clud a girliend for Elsa, the film would be be banned untri where homosexualy is nsired taboo or is still punishable by law.

FROZEN 3 IS DISNEY'S PERFECT CHANCE TO INTRODUCE A GAY PRCS

Now, Disney is said to be hopeful that the time between Frozen 2 and Frozen 3 will give the world a chance to change, and that the revelatn of Elsa beg gay "won't e as much ntroversy as would right now. Fans have speculated about Elsa's sexualy sce Frozen was first released 2013, but Frozen 2 still don't addrs whether or not she's gay.

Given Disney's fear of alienatg parents (or media censors untri like Rsia) who aren't tolerant of LGBTQ+ them children's entertament, 's not surprisg that the stud didn't make Elsa gay Frozen 2. The st and creators of the Frozen movi are much more on board wh a gay Elsa than Disney seems to be.

Rpons on the matter range om vague to hopeful, givg fans a spark of possibily for a gay Elsa the future.