16 Disney Characters Who Were Probably Gay

Contents:

• DISNEY'S 8 'FIRST OPENLY GAY' CHARACTERS, RANKED (BY HOW EMBARRASSED DISNEY SHOULD FEEL)
• DISNEY EXEC VOWS MORE GAY CHARACTERS AMID HUGE CLIVY PH
• 16 DISNEY CHARACTERS WHO WERE PROBABLY GAY
• TOY STORY 4 BEG BOYTTED OVER SUBTLE GAY BACKGROUND CHARACTERS
• DISNEY RTOR SAME-GENR ‘LIGHTYEAR’ KISS FOLLOWG “DON’T SAY GAY” BACKLASH
• HOW MANY TIM IS DISNEY GOG TO INTRODUCE ITS ‘FIRST’ GAY CHARACTER?
• PIXAR SHORT FILM ‘OUT’ FEATUR STUD’S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER
• DISNEY ACCED OF REMOVG GAY NTENT OM PIXAR FILMS

DISNEY'S 8 'FIRST OPENLY GAY' CHARACTERS, RANKED (BY HOW EMBARRASSED DISNEY SHOULD FEEL)

The same-sex kiss first ma headl last month, when Pixar animators spoke out agast Disney an open letter obtaed by Variety, sayg that rporate executiv had mand cuts "om nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn. But was later rtored light of Disney's "Don't Say Gay" ntroversy, when was revealed the pany had donated roughly $200, 000 to Republin policians who supported the bill, which forbids discsns of sexual orient elementary school classrooms.

"Other live-actn Disney films have relegated queer characters to the background, like a blk-and-you'll-miss- kiss between two women "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, " or the "exclively gay moment" of Josh Gad's LeFou dancg wh another man "Bety and the Beast. The pany has never been known for s great LGBTQ+ reprentatn or polics, but 's e unr even more scty than ual after fans learned that the pany was donatg money to legislators Florida backg that state's ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill. Especially when the news broke that Pixar has been censorg gay ntent out of s films for Disney really been producg enough spirg ntent to unteract s donatns and lack of a statement?

DISNEY EXEC VOWS MORE GAY CHARACTERS AMID HUGE CLIVY PH

When this live-actn remake me out, Disney touted LeFou (played by Josh Gad) as beg their first gay character and even said that he had an "exclively gay moment" the film. Disney and Marvel Studs proudly announced that 2019 they had troduced their first gay character the Marvel Cematic Universe, only to have fans fd out that was an unnamed character one scene played by the movie's straight -director.

MacGregor, played by Jack Whehall, was supposed to be Disney's "first major gay character" when Jungle Cise was set to be released way back 2019, but bee of the global panmic, the film was layed until 2021. Marvel's first gay superhero and the first married gay uple the MCU both happened 2021, which was que the year for "First Gays" for the pany.

Artie is one of several characters advertised as the pany's "first major gay character" after both LeFou Bety and the Beast and MacGregor the layed-for-several-years Jungle Cise. After news broke that Disney not only donated to legislators backg anti-gay bills, but also repeatedly cut queer ntent om their movi, Pixar cid to rtore a scene the Lightyear film where a female character named Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba) kiss her female partner.

16 DISNEY CHARACTERS WHO WERE PROBABLY GAY

Comedian Jaboie Young-Whe will be voicg a new character the upg animated film Strange World who is volved "the first openly gay teen romance a Disney feature" acrdg to Twter er Matthiew Saghezchi, who saw a clip om the film at the Annecy 2022 ftival. "Andi Mack" was the first seri on Disney Channel to feature a gay ma characterValkyrie, played by Tsa Thompson, appears two "Thor" films and two "Avengers" filmsWhen asked if Loki romanced would-be prcs or another prce, the god of mischief rpond wh, "A b of both"Is "Strange World" the first Disney movie that featur a gay character?

" It's the first Disney movie wh an out, gay November at the Los Angel premiere of "Strange World, " star Jake Gyllenhaal said Disney's animated fay adventure normaliz a "queer kid" character as part of s storyle about young people fdg their own inty. 'Florida teacher vtigated by state agency for showg this Disney movie classCrics' take on "Strange World":List: 'Strange World' reviews about Disney's first out gay, character, biracial queer teenDisney vs.

In 2017, "Andi Mack" ma s but on Disney Channel, and was the first seri on that work to feature a gay ma Elizabeth Lee played the tle character, and her world is turned upsi-down (jt before her 13th birthday) when she learns her olr sister is actually her mother, and her mother is actually her grandmother. Wh support om Andi and Buffy, Cys out to Jonah at a party (see vio above) show aired for three there a gay character 'Thor' 3 and 4? Episo 1 rep:The ‘Loki’ premiere fds the God of Mischief a strange new realyIt's Hiddlton's Loki nfirmed as Marvel's first bisexual lead characterIs there a gay character Marvel's 'Eternals?

TOY STORY 4 BEG BOYTTED OVER SUBTLE GAY BACKGROUND CHARACTERS

"Eternals" also has the Marvel Cematic Universe's first love scene between Gemma Chan ("Crazy Rich Asians") and Richard LeFou gay Disney's 'Bety and the Beast?

'In the 1991 animated feature "Bety and the Beast, " 's clear LeFou worships Gaston − as his bt the 2017 live-actn film "Bety and the Beast, " starrg Emma Watson (the "Harry Potter" films) as Belle, Le Evans (the "Hobb" films) as Gaston and Dan Stevens as the Beast, LeFou worships Gaston − and, who was straight the animated classic, was gay this versn. Screenshot: DisneyArtie is never explicly picted as queer Disney’s new villa orig story, which ma all the hubbub that he was the latt “First” gay character at the stud all rather silly.

That and the fact took three trailers for him to get a le of dialogue, but Whehall’s McGregor at least gettg a scene that humanized his relatnship wh his sister bee of the fact she didn’t abandon him for beg queer like the rt of his fay—even if the scene did dance around sayg the word “gay”—was actually pretty solid, if fleetg. It really do jt feel like yterday when we were promised the live-actn Bety and the Beast’s “exclively gay moment, ” only to be given Josh Gad dancg wh another man a ty agment of the film’s climactic dance sequence. Ever sce John Boyega and Osr Isaac’s Fn and Poe swapped jackets and lip-b their way to the galaxy far, far away’s hottt ship this si of the In T-65 X-Wg, Star Wars fans have wanted to see some gays space.

DISNEY RTOR SAME-GENR ‘LIGHTYEAR’ KISS FOLLOWG “DON’T SAY GAY” BACKLASH

Alas, after the Brothers Rso patted themselv on the back Endgame’s pre-release prs tours that they had brought the first on-screen explicly gay character to the MCU—after some fumbl along the way—we got... Updated on June 7th, 2022 by Danielle Bnti: In the wake of Florida's extremely ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill and the strong cricism that me om wh The Walt Disney Company for not speakg up, seems like Disney is fally unrstandg out important LGBTQ+ reprentatn is for s fans and s st members. Artie Cella is an openly gay character who teracts wh the ma character throughout the new movie that foc on Cella Vil om 101 Dalmatians.

Artie is able to be his thentic self and actor John McCrea is happy wh his portrayal of Artie and believ him to be a gay character, but Disney yet aga ma the mistake of not fully lvg to Artie beg an openly gay character.

Orka and Flix Star Wars Ristance are two openly gay characters who aren't human and are actually two different speci but are openly a relatnship the seri. Jungle Cise hasn't technilly been released yet, but Disney has been clear that one of the major characters the movie, McGregor Houghton, will be gay.

HOW MANY TIM IS DISNEY GOG TO INTRODUCE ITS ‘FIRST’ GAY CHARACTER?

Certa groups are upset at the ia of a children's movie reprentg the LGBTQ+ muny while progrsiv are upset at Jack Whehall's stg, believg a gay actor should be st, and the ia that might be a stereotypil, harmful reprentatn.

Before the live-actn versn of Bety and the Beast me out 2017, director Bill Condon announced an terview that one character would have a gay sp. The show's creator and executive producer Terri Msky said that Cys and his story were largely spired by Terri's dghter's iends, who knew that they were gay middle school.

Pixar jt released a new short, aptly tled Out, that foc on a young man named Greg who has a secret: he's gay, and he has a boyiend named Manuel.

PIXAR SHORT FILM ‘OUT’ FEATUR STUD’S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER

Pixar's 2020 short film Out revolved around a gay man as s ma character, a big step for the stud, though was released on Disney+ and not shown ont of a feature film like other Pixar shorts often Disney's non-Pixar animated movie Zootopia om 2016, the ma character liv next door to a gay married antelope uple, but this isn't at all clear the movie self. And 2013's Frozen, fans have speculated the tradg post owner Oaken might be gay, as we see his fay appears to nsist of a man and several kids.

More recently, some crics read a gay subtext to Pixar's 2021 film Lu, which centers around the relatnship between two young boy sea monsters.

DISNEY ACCED OF REMOVG GAY NTENT OM PIXAR FILMS

Outsi of animatn, Disney's 2017 live-actn Bety and the Beast suggted Gaston's sikick LeFou is gay, givg him a three-send shot where he danc wh another man. In 2019, two Disney blockbters clud very mor gay characters: In Avengers: Endgame, a man group therapy wh Capta Ameri refers to gog on a date wh another man, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, a periphery female character kiss a woman durg the closg celebratn scene. And 2021's Jungle Cise, the brother of Ey Blunt's character allus to his homosexualy by referencg turng down marriage to women bee "my terts happily lie elsewhere" and sayg iends and fay turned their backs on him "bee of who I loved.

Then, July's Thor: Love and Thunr nfirmed Valkyrie (Tsa Thompson) is gay via a le referencg the fact that she lost her "girliend battle" (though fans were disappoted she did not get a girliend the prent, as Thompson had prevly implied), and November's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever clud a brief moment where a woman kiss another woman on the forehead. That most notably occurred wh LeFou Bety and the Beast, pecially bee the director, Bill Condon, promised ahead of time there would be an "exclively gay moment. " His ment received signifint news verage, but when said moment was a blk-and-you-miss- shot, crics argued the stud hadn't gone far enough, and the phrase "exclively gay moment" was adopted to sarstilly mock Disney.

When Onward featured s gay police officer character, Polygon's Ey Heller wrote that "fully embracg the LGBTQ muny means gog beyond small gtur of clivy" like this, and the LGBTQ+ reprentatn Endgame and The Rise of Skywalker was wily panned given both volved mor si characters. Wrg for The Los Angel Tim, Tracy Brown said was a "pleasant surprise" that Strange World's LGBTQ+ reprentatn arriv "wh mimal fanfare, " while Variety lled the movie "urageo" for s cln of a young gay character — though IndieWire's Emma Stefansky argued the film's LGBTQ+ reprentatn still "feels timid, " notg Ethan's csh has ltle screen time and uld be removed for an overseas release. Of urse, there has also been a backlash to Disney's ph for greater LGBTQ+ reprentatn, pecially light of the pany's fight wh Florida over the so-lled "Don't Say Gay" bill.