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EXCLUSIVE: IS SR OM ’THE LN KG’ GAY? JEREMY IRONS SETTL THE BATE.

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The Gays(tm) are mad that Sr, voiced by Chiwetel Ejfor, isn't as gay as they remembered om the animated 1994 mil.

"The biggt misstep of the new Ln Kg for me was the hetero-fitn of gay in Sr, " said one social media er. "My only cricism is I wish Sr livered one le like the origal and he was more gay thx!

Historilly, the ma way LGBTQ+ people have found ourselv reprented film and televisn was through characters that were d as queer, though their sexual and genr inti had no signifint prence, bee homophobia. In the origal animated versn, the character, voiced by Jeremy Irons, fell le wh the then-expected d-as-gay villay that me to fe untls Disney properti.

GASP! DISNEY'S SR IS NO LONGER A GAY IN

Disney films have always ronated wh queer and trans dienc. Here are the gayt films the non. * scar gay icon *

And if you jt listen to the origal versn of "Be Prepared, " Sr's voice is basilly remiscent of an entiled and disgntled (whe) gay man who mand his right to marry while ignorg the plight of LGBTQ+ folks of lor. Unrstandably, however, 's not absurd that those of who grew up on the origal Ln Kg would want to mata much of what we remember of the origal, cludg Sr's latent homosexualy. In fact, that the new Sr is not sublimally gay -- and Billy Eichner says he played Timon wh a "gay sensibily, " whatever the hell that means -- is sign of progrs.

RELATED | Billy Eichner Confirms He Played Timon wh a 'Gay Sensibily'. Disney has felt the heat as of late as fans ll on the pany to publicly nmn Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill, which jt passed through the state senate. As of today, Pixar animators are speakg out agast the pany, sharg an open letter that rporate offic "have mand the removal of 'nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn … regardls of when there is prott om both the creative teams and executive learship at Pixar, '" acrdg to The ntroversy led some fans to pot out that LGBTQ+ folks have always been a part of Disney's succs.

\u201cAndreas Deja (who is gay) animated nearly every disney villa durg the Disney Renaissance.

OSR WIL: “GAY” IN OR “HOMOPHOBE”?

"Jafar's orig story is that he's gay and pissed." * scar gay icon *

1646685855Queer-dg villas was an easy way for 1900s animatn to signate a character as different, ually saddlg them wh a bunch of cliché, homosexual stereotyp that the dience digts and associat as evil, playg off of history's real-life stigma agast LGBTQ+ folks. " Thankfully, gays aren't jt the villas anymore as we have a growg amount of posive reprentatn animatn the days. Disney, wh s famo reticence toward pictg openly gay characters almost certaly didn’t tend to produce an overtly gay narrative Mulan.

As Sean Griff’s book Tker Bells and Evil Queens not, Disney has long targeted gay dienc — and partly bee queer dienc are experts at -optg ostensibly straight narrativ for themselv. “The ia that lbians and gay men uld be watchg Disney and g the texts (films, TV shows, theme parks, rerds, etc.

“Historil evince dit that lbians and gay men have read Disney artifacts om a non-heterosexual viewpot throughout the pany’s history...

THE BABADOOK DIRECTOR FALLY ACKNOWLEDG THE CHARACTER BEG A GAY IN

Osr Wil's life and work create ntradictory versns of this man. Should he really be nsired a gay in or is time we look to others? * scar gay icon *

As long as evince showed that homosexual dienc were unrstandg Disney through a ‘gay sensibily, ’ then a relatnship existed whether Disney approved of or not. The one notable exceptn to this le is Bety and the Beast’s Gaston, a villa tentnally signed to be so manly that he be herently homoerotic. Villas regularly bee gay ins; Disney prc are equently reamed as gay men; and so many people have read Frozen’s Elsa as queer that the ph to give her a girliend has bee a proment media narrative around that anchise.

It’s probably not a cince that several of the films volved Howard Ashman, a gay mil lyricist who -wrote the sr to The Ltle Mermaid and Bety and the Beast and shaped the story ncept of Aladd before his ath 1991. There are a few characters the Disney non, like Bety and the Beast’s Gaston, who are seen as homoerotic paragons. But perhaps the most heartbreakg gay readg of Bety and the Beast volv the story of the Beast himself.

” That isn’t unlike the prejudice felt by gay men like Ashman, who was alg wh AIDS plitns while wrg the lyrics for the songs of the origal animated movie. The Ln Kg’s Sr follows the shopworn trope of a gay-d villa: He preens, flips his hair, snters ways that his very stiff brother Mufasa don’t.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

From exclively gay moments "Bety and the Beast" to DeSantis and Disney World, Disney has a long and strange history wh the LGBTQ muny. * scar gay icon *

On the one hand, Sr and many stereotypilly portrayed characters like him feel like the byproducts of lazy and unimagative wrg (oh, wow another limp-wristed, gay-ish villa! Sce gay people haven’t ever been allowed to be the hero of Disney movi, no one n really blame for takg our cmbs and appreciatg the bombastic, opposnal, unapologetilly queer villas like Sr. The Ln Kg has a uple of ls-villao queer-d characters Pumba and Timon, Simba’s two nihilistic, adoptive gay dads.

Frollo’s sexual hypocrisy and ragg hatred of Esmeralda, the object of his sir, mak him the perfect allegory for morn-day homophob.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * scar gay icon *

It prompts Disney’s bt “I Want” song, which is also one of the gayt songs ever wrten, “Out There. If only for this reason, Maleficent is one of the gayt Disney films around. And jt like all nversn therapy, fails, and Maleficent emerg om the moment of trma stronger, angrier, smarter, and ready to be gay, do crim.

the amount of people who replied to this sayg that shego was the e of their gay awakeng is outstandg so here’s an appreciatn post for our queen.

are we all jt gog to ignore the fact that natalie certa and cz ramirez rs 3 are gay girls bound to hook up or what. 7 mentHow the fuck is he a gay in when he had children wh the crazy lns?

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