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DISNEY'S ACTUAL 'FIRST GAY CHARACTER' HAS BEEN FOTTEN ABOUT
It wasn't Cella, Onward or The Rise of Skywalker; Disney's actual first gay character was The Prcs Diari 2: Royal Engagement. * is anyone gay in di4ries *
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At this pot, headl clarg a Disney movie ntas the stud's "first gay character" of one kd or another have bee credibly predictable. Cella's Artie is the latt to get "first gay character" headl. In as much as Artie n make any real "first" claim, 's bee he at least has more scen than Spectre Onward, who at least had a name unlike the gay guy Avengers: Endgame, whose inty was at least ls ambiguo than Lefou's the 2017 Bety and the Beast, and so on and so forth the list of Disney's bare-mimum "firsts.
Amidst this cycle of unrwhelmg rporate hype, seems as if people have fotten who Disney's actual "first gay character" was, assumg they were even aware he existed the first place. Don't go to The Prcs Diari 2 expectg some sort of masterpiece of reprentatn or queer cema; the gay ntent is as mimal as that most of the films ught the "Disney's first gay character" hype cycle.
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