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Disney’s ntroversial rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill unrsr the pany’s plited history wh the LGBTQ+ muny — a plex relatnship which Disney has played both champn and punchg bag.

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

Bety and the Beast's Le Fou might be the first character that Disney has openly regnized as beg gay, but that don't mean LGBT people haven't been there all along. * gay disney 2014 *

Conservative groups have urged a boytt of Disney over news that the fay-iendly stud would feature s first "exclively gay moment" the live-actn remake of Bety and the Beast.

Director Bill Condon told the Brish gay magaze Attu that Le Fou, the bumblg sikick played by Josh Gad, would be portrayed as a gay man.

Rsia further announced that Bety and the Beast will be rated 16+ over ncerns that the adaptatn would vlate the untry's "gay propaganda" backlash is overblown for a number of reasons. Le Fou might be the first character that Disney has openly regnized as beg gay, but that don't mean LGBT people haven't been there all From Harper's BAZAARDisneySean Griff lerally wrote the book on the gay history of Disney. "It's not necsarily gay, but 's fely queer.

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

From exclively gay moments "Bety and the Beast" to DeSantis and Disney World, Disney has a long and strange history wh the LGBTQ muny. * gay disney 2014 *

"Le Fou might be the first character that Disney has openly regnized as beg gay, but that don't mean LGBT people haven't been there all those unfaiar, there's a subtle difference between those two phras. While "gay" refers to people who like members of their same sex, "queer" is a reclaimed term that sprang up amic circl the early 1990s. It n be hard to fe, but you know queerns when you see Reluctant Dragon, a short produced 1941, is extremely queer, even if 's not necsarily gay.

In the 1948 film, actors Farley Granger and John Dall (both of whom were gay men) played a pair so nvced of their abily to pull off the perfect murr that they ve iends to their apartment to throw a dner party at the scene of the crime. The men were based off real-life killers Leopold and Loeb, although any reference to the characters' homosexualy was exprsed through subtext.

DISNEY FILM FEATURG GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE

A PSA-style tnal film shown public schools the 1950s, "Boys Beware, " warned that some gay men "rort to vlence" to prey on young boys public rtrooms and public parks.

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