Is Elsa gay? That’s the qutn ‘Frozen’ fans are askg ahead of the ‘Frozen II’ release and followg a 2016 Twter mpaign lled #GetElsaAGirliend.
Contents:
- IS FROZEN 2 THE FIRST DISNEY MOVIE WH AN OPENLY GAY LEAD?
- DISNEY RUMORED TO MAKE POPULAR ‘FROZEN’ CHARACTER GAY THIRD INSTALLMENT
- SO, HOW GAY IS DISNEY’S FROZEN?
- IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
- DISNEY’S ‘FROZEN’ IS NOT A ‘GAY’ FILM (BUT I WISH WERE)
- GAY SUBTEXT FROZEN AND OTHER DISNEY FILMS: WHOSE AGENDA IS IT, ANYWAY?
IS FROZEN 2 THE FIRST DISNEY MOVIE WH AN OPENLY GAY LEAD?
In the origal film, the ice queen’s sister Anna (played by Kristen Bell) got all the love-story actn, leavg many the LGBTQ muny hopg and wonrg if Elsa might be gay. Elsa Gay and Has a Girliend Frozen 3. Wh there beg six years between the first and send movi, Frozen 3 is likely far om g to un—but this wouldn’t be the first move Disney has ma to ph a homosexual agenda.
Acrdg to Fahwire, “The Disney Channel ma history 2017 when Joshua Ryan, who played Cys the ‘Andi Mack’ seri, beme the first character to utter the phrase, ‘I’m gay.'”.
In the same year, Disney stirred up major ntroversy when they promoted an “exclively gay moment” Bety and the Beast, between LeFou and a henchman drsed as a woman.
DISNEY RUMORED TO MAKE POPULAR ‘FROZEN’ CHARACTER GAY THIRD INSTALLMENT
movie wh an openly gay won't reveal anythg about the plot of the animated sequel, which opens the US and UK on Friday and Atralia Nov. Disney's first official gay character appeared the 2017 live-actn remake of Bety and the Beast, which LeFou (Josh Gad) has a csh on Gaston (Le Evans) and danc wh another man.
Disney AnimatnMeanwhile, Jack Whehall is set to play the first major Disney character to be explicly gay the upg Jungle Cise, which opens July 2020. What was remarkable, though, was s cln of Disney’s first openly gay teen character, Ethan Cla played by Jaboie Young-Whe. Or will Frozen III pick up directly after the events of the sophomore movie?
The Disney Channel ma history 2017 when Joshua Ryan, who played Cys the “Andi Mack” seri, beme the first character to utter the phrase, “I’m gay.
SO, HOW GAY IS DISNEY’S FROZEN?
For now, though, I want to addrs somethg I noted passg my review: the qutn of gay-culture them Frozen. All of this seems to me a) clearly if subtly exprsive of a pro-gay culture at Disney, and b) not that big a al, asmuch as the them are subtle and ambiguo enough not pose eher a signifint annoyance to even savvy parents or a rptg fluence on children.
(I would not say that of the pro-gay them the lik of Madagasr 2 or the Happy Feet movi; those are a different tegory, and I do object to them. However, there’s another pro-gay element Frozen worth notg that I origally missed: a fleetg but fe suggtn that a mor character has a fay nsistg of a same-sex partner and a bunch of children. Oaken’s gay fay.
Hey, did you notice the gay character? It turns out that giant man “Wanrg Oaken’s Tradg Post and Sna” is probably gay.
IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
It seems plsible the filmmakers have thrown this moment to allow sharp-eyed homophile viewers to draw their own nclns about jt what sort of “fay” this is. From the perspective of Hollywood filmmakers, while ’s not yet possible for a mastream fay film to have overtly gay characters or them, the heteronormativy of tradnal children’s entertament has been problematized.
Gay fai and their alli mt take their nsolatns where they n fd them, and ntent themselv for the most part wh wks and nods, hts and subtexts. And yet, this se the filmmakers have walked that le really well: so well that the pro-gay them have gone right over the heads of untls adult Christian viewers, many of whom have embraced Frozen as ronatg powerfully wh Christian them.
DISNEY’S ‘FROZEN’ IS NOT A ‘GAY’ FILM (BUT I WISH WERE)
Y, people actually are terted whether the Disney character is gay. Some fan theori suggt this is bee she's gay. LeFou (Josh Gad) om Bety and the Beast is perhaps the strongt non LGBTQ character Disney, wh the 2017 remake clearly showg him as gay.
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GAY SUBTEXT FROZEN AND OTHER DISNEY FILMS: WHOSE AGENDA IS IT, ANYWAY?
Elsa hidg her ice-powers uld be read as a metaphor for the closet, the Osr-wng “Let Go” plays like a g-out anthem, and a character the film evok the qutn of whether homosexualy is a choice by quirg of Elsa’s powers, “born wh or cursed? Through both s rporate practic and the ntent of s films, Disney for s has implemented the so-lled "gay agenda"—which is to say, helpg make the world a more acceptg start the most obv place: As a bs, Disney has long held a progrsive attu toward LGBT people.