The tth about what really go on at Gay Days at Disneyland - Queerty

Contents:

• HAPPY PRI! THE ARE THE GAYT THGS DISNEY HISTORY
• THE TTH ABOUT WHAT REALLY GO ON AT GAY DAYS AT DISNEYLAND
• DISNEY FILM FEATURG GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE
• WHY GAY MEN CAN'T GO TO DISNEY WORLD - INSI THE MAGIC
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

HAPPY PRI! THE ARE THE GAYT THGS DISNEY HISTORY

Disney has recently bee a very huge, somewhat unexpected ally the fight for gay rights, pecially Florida, where they are currently battlg out wh Gov Ron DeSantis a fight that n all be traced back to former CEO Bob Chapek and his rponse to the polician’s famo “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

While Disney may not have been able to do anythg too “openly gay” until very recently, s films are still filled wh referenc, homag, and wks to LGBTQ+ people – bee artists and creativ are so equently queer, this should e as no surprise. Whout further ado: The are the gayt thgs Disney History.

THE TTH ABOUT WHAT REALLY GO ON AT GAY DAYS AT DISNEYLAND

First thg is first: Disney obvly has a massive list of characters who, for whatever reason, jt seem really gay. There might not be any substantial evince or allegori outsi of the movi themselv that pot to this, but they set off the gaydar of many people who would know, and that’s not sayg nothg. The characters clu, of urse, the ever-popular queer-d villas: Capta Hook is portrayed as a stereotypil, effemate dandy; Maleficent reads to many (pecially fans of Angela Jolie) like a morn-day bisexual queen; Kg Candy lerally walks around wh limp wrists; Has is Megara’s sarstic, toxic gay enemy; and there’s jt somethg about Jafar.

DISNEY FILM FEATURG GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE

Disney has been cricized for s history of makg villas gay, as ’s easy to draw the le between that and gay people = villas – but at the same time, everyone mt adm that there’s nothg que like the mp and productn value that e om an excellent queer-d Disney Villa song.

While ’s te that no woman should be labeled a lbian simply bee she exprs distaste for the ncept of beg forced to marriage, the fact still remas that the characters are heavily gay-d.

Oaken’s Fay Sna was jt a glimpse at a gay fay, ’s te, but Oaken of Frozen has been nfirmed to have a hband and three children – whom we see briefly, takg shelter om the ld the fay steam room. They didn’t do that thg where they advertised that the movie would feature “the first openly gay character” only to have be someone mor and nsequential to the story. Here’s another example of a time Disney jt sually dropped a gay uple to their movi whout sayg a word: Zootopia.

WHY GAY MEN CAN'T GO TO DISNEY WORLD - INSI THE MAGIC

This act of normalizatn is subtle but still que different om the days when Disney had to hi their obvly gay portrayals of characters what many ll “queer-dg:” Utilizg mon stereotyp queer people have for one another, as well as mirrorg storyl that they would fd faiar, to make clear that the creators tend to imply that a character is gay. Queer-dg was credibly mon the early days of film, as while the Hays Co strictly prohibed people talkg about beg homosexual or queer any way, many artists and animators very much were.

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

Ferdand isn’t herently gay – there’s no love story to even really gus at – but he is also not performg his assigned genr as expected, so he’s fely queer, no qutn about . This short telegraphs how gay men have, historilly, often had to hi their love behd fightg or aggrsn. Jeremy Irons Said He Thks Sr is Gay.

Renowned actor Jeremy Irons, durg an terview wh Queerty for Hoe of Gucci 2021, said that while he did not ially read Sr as gay, after rewatchg the film, he realized that the reason he do what he do mt be, sentially, that he is closeted, lonely, and bored. “There is no doubt that Sr is a gay who do not dare to e out and that mak him very unhappy.

It’s unsurprisg that some gay-d characters are The Ln Kg. After all, the mic was wrten by one of the most famo (and fabulo) gay men morn history: Sir Elton John.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

Speakg of gay mic…. More importantly, though, even if she isn’t, “When She Loved Me” sounds very gay out of the very specific ntext of Toy Story 2.

First of all, The Great Moe Detective is based on the stori of Sherlock Holm, a character so often wrten as gay fan wrgs that Arthur Conan Doyle’s tate has felt the need to addrs the past. As we discsed wh Elton John: a gay poser wrg the songs for a movie, even if that movie has no herently gay ntent whatsoever, giv the whole thg a very queer flavor – and Ashman, the lyril half of the posg duo behd The Ltle Mermaid and Bety and the Beast, and the man who wrote Aladd, was famoly gay. Ashman was gay when was credibly dangero to be gay.

If you’ve seen Bohemian Rhapsody, you have a ltle b of the picture: AIDS was rampant, and nobody knew what was or how you ught , but was labeled the “gay ncer” and known to be an eventual ath sentence. Bee appeared, the begng, to maly affect gay people and dg ers, the print at the time, Ronald Reagan, emed to be a “moral issue. This lack of fundg and rearch allowed the not only the disease, but also misrmatn and fear, to spread, and many people began to form the same associatn between gay people and AIDS as others did wh Asian people and COVID-19.