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Contents:

• ARE TIMON AND PUMBAA OM 'THE LN KG' GAY?
• MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE
• THE LNS SHARE OF DISNEY MOURS: IS SIMBA GAY THE LN KG 2019?
• WILL SIMBA THE LN BE GAY 'THE LN KG' REMAKE?
• "THE LN KG" CHARACTER OFTEN NSIRED A GAY IN CROSSWORD CLUE
• ARE TIMON AND PUMBAA OM 'THE LN KG' GAY?

ARE TIMON AND PUMBAA OM 'THE LN KG' GAY?

Cape Town – Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen, who voice Timon and Pumbaa the live-actn The Ln Kg remake, say although they don’t thk and they n’t nfirm whether or not their characters are gay, we do need more LGBTQ reprentatn on screen.

Eichner mented that people often assume bee the actor is gay, the character they play mt be too. "I mean, I’m gay and Nathan Lane’s gay, so ’s tertg when a straight actor do a role, no one’s like, ‘That character mt be straight.

MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE

’ But bee ’s Nathan and me they’re like, ‘Oh, Timon mt be gay.

’ Which is not to say he’s not gay. "It would be ol to see more openly LGBT characters fay entertament and animated films, " he said, "so we don’t have to have annoyg discsns about whether Bert and Ernie are gay or not.

""Hopefully movg forward there will be openly gay characters the typ of movi.

THE LNS SHARE OF DISNEY MOURS: IS SIMBA GAY THE LN KG 2019?

"In an terview wh Buzzfeed News, Eichner said we always have to look for the “closeted gay character” films when we should fact be more open, hont and clive of everyone. "Well, that really opened the door to more gay rats gettg married, which I really appreciate. Few Disney characters are explicly clared to be gay by the stud, but viewers have picked up on "gay dg.

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Timon is voiced by Nathan Lane, who is openly gay, and Pumbaa by Ernie Sabella. In an article about the upg Ln Kg live-actn remake, Jezebel refers to Timon and Pumbaa as gay lovers and "their fiercely lovg and judgment-ee romance, " marked by the song "Hakuna Matata.

"THE LN KG" CHARACTER OFTEN NSIRED A GAY IN CROSSWORD CLUE

Lane said, "Now that gay rights have e so far, this versn Timon n fally marry Pumbaa and live openly the Serengeti. But for the 2017 live-actn remake, LeFou was nceived as exprsly gay and played that way by actor Josh Gad. But is a nice, exclively gay moment a Disney movie.

Clearg up any doubt about their relatnship, Zootopia -director Jared Bh tweeted, "They are a gay married uple.

ARE TIMON AND PUMBAA OM 'THE LN KG' GAY?

But they don't yell at each other bee they're gay, they yell bee they're real. The hoopla over the "exclively gay moment" the live-actn versn of Bety and the Beast (2017) -- LeFou dancg wh a man while sgg Gaston's prais -- spurred several piec potg out there was another gay uple the film. That Ken, "is picted as a closeted gay fashnista, wh a fondns for wrhg sparkly purple k wh curly-Q flourish.

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The lead animator on Jafar was Andreas Deja, who is openly gay, and has worked on Hercul, Lilo and Stch, Gaston Bety and the Beast and Sr The Ln Kg. In Tker Bell and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company om the Insi Out, thor Sean Griff not that Deja "adms to nceivg of the [Jafar] character as a gay man 'to give him his theatril qualy, his elegance.