Gay Subtext Frozen and Other Disney Films: Whose Agenda is It, Anyway? | The Artifice

Contents:

• DISNEY'S FROZEN AND THE 'GAY AGENDA'
• IS FROZEN 2 THE FIRST DISNEY MOVIE WH AN OPENLY GAY LEAD?
• IS ‘FROZEN’ THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR?
• IDA MENZEL TALKS FROZEN 2 AND GAY ELSA
• LET IT GAY? SUBVERSIVE MSAG OM DISNEY’S FROZEN
• GAY SUBTEXT FROZEN AND OTHER DISNEY FILMS: WHOSE AGENDA IS IT, ANYWAY?
• CONSERVATIVE RAD HOSTS: ‘FROZEN’ PROMOT GAY AGENDA, BTIALY

DISNEY'S FROZEN AND THE 'GAY AGENDA'

Swanson ntends the film doctrat young women to be lbians and nvc people that homosexualy and btialy are acceptable Swanson don't specifilly ce what parts of the film he se as promotg homosexualy, others have drawn parallels between the kgdom's rejectn of the magil powers of one of the ma characters, Elsa, and society's rejectn of homosexualy. "Disney has a long history of fieldg accatns of g s children's movi to advance one liberal agenda or another - whether 's gay rights, environmentalism or socialism, " wr the Daily Beast's Cal Dickson.

If you look hard enough, he says, you n fd a hidn homosexual agenda almost any song, movie or any other work of art. 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.

IS FROZEN 2 THE FIRST DISNEY MOVIE WH AN OPENLY GAY LEAD?

There is a fear mpaign mountg agast the film, warng nservative parents and grandparents to keep their imprsnable young children away om what some believe is a mil advertisement for the gay agenda.

After the third viewg she was nvced: This beloved movie, wh s top-notch animatn and s tchy theme song don’t jt have homosexual unrton (what Disney movie don’t? ) but is 108 mut of pure gay propaganda! Most of the reactns to Skaggs’ claims that the evil geni at Disney had duped Christian parents across the untry to allowg Frozen to brawash their children to supportg the “normalizatn of same-sex sexual behavr”—or worse, turn them gay—have been cricized, dismissed and mocked the Inter over.

”He ntued, “I wonr if people are thkg: ‘You know I thk this cute ltle movie is gog to doctrate my five-year-old to be a lbian or treat homosexualy or btialy a light sort of way. In fact, the only proof of “gay msagg” Skaggs provis is the suggtn that the ma character Elsa’s magil power is a metaphor for homosexualy: She is ostracized by the public and even her fay, jt like the “monizatn of homosexuals by society.

IS ‘FROZEN’ THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR?

” And, of urse, the happy endg where Elsa’s fay and muny fally accept her for who she is sends the msage that gays (Elsa) are not the problem, but rather society is the problem for rejectg them. Natnal Catholic Register wrer Steven Greydan (who actually qutned Frozen’s gayns back January) not only saw the rejected Elsa as a symbol for opprsed gay people, he also pots out that Elsa, unlike her boycrazy sister, shows no tert datg, so clearly she is a lbian.

”Disney has a long history of fieldg accatns of g s children’s movi to advance one liberal agenda or another —whether ’s gay rights, environmentalism or socialism. And this was all before John Travolta epilly flubbed sger Ida Menzel’s name, creatg a fictnal person and immediately overplayed meme, at the Amy fearg Frozen’s homosexual agenda might want to nsir the agendas of s crics. Kev Swanson, for example, clared that “nt homosexual activy, ” marijuana legalizatn and abortn rights were to blame for the floods that vastated Colorado last summer.

IDA MENZEL TALKS FROZEN 2 AND GAY ELSA

And spe sistg her Frozen post that she is “not anti-gay” nor “here to judge homosexuals, ” Kathryn Skaggs has dited a large number of her blog posts to advotg for “tradnal marriage. ” Then aga, if you’re legimately ncerned about a Disney movie turng your children gay, you might be jt the choir Swanson and Skaggs are preachg a tip? Marvel's first gay superhero might have a hband and kids, but the same n't be said for another Disney-owned superpowered character.

While many of were holdg out hope that Frozen II would make good on Elsa's queer subtext, the film's songwrer has said unequivolly that Elsa won't have a love tert the sequel, squashg the mors that Evan Rachel Wood's character is Elsa's girliend (she's actually playg Elsa and Anna's mother flashback scen) an terview wh IGN, Frozen II songwrer Kristen Anrson-Lopez broke our gay ltle hearts. His sensibily as a gay artist has shaped and elevated the magaze’s athetic, but he has to keep his creativy check lt Mx be seen as a magaze for gay men. But fish strong, as the nflict over Richie’s bathhoe project grows and Mx has to nsir whether ’s too risky for the magaze to speak to gay men, or even gay moments like this, the historil fictn feels not entirely historil.

LET IT GAY? SUBVERSIVE MSAG OM DISNEY’S FROZEN

Y, people actually are terted whether the Disney character is gay. It’s a wonrful nversatn that we should all have about whether a Disney prcs or queen uld be gay. The gay agenda to normalize homosexualy is woven to Disney’s movie Frozen not jt as an unrlyg msage – is the movie.

She then explas tail the way the ways the movie works to “normalize homosexual behavr. And would Elsa be revealed as a gay character?

GAY SUBTEXT FROZEN AND OTHER DISNEY FILMS: WHOSE AGENDA IS IT, ANYWAY?

The first film read as queer enough that homophobic bloggers acced Disney of doctratg children wh the gay agenda the wake of s release, and queer fans (myself clud, although I didn’t know at the time) latched onto Elsa as the potential first queer Disney prcs. ” But “Show Yourself” is arguably “Let It Go”’s spirual succsor: while the soundtrack’s lead sgle, “Into the Unknown, ” was created for the charts and awards shows, “Show Yourself” is Frozen 2’s gay anthem.

CONSERVATIVE RAD HOSTS: ‘FROZEN’ PROMOT GAY AGENDA, BTIALY

Asi om the surface-level “Elsa cis to follow a myster, pellg female voice” (which is already, uh, pretty gay), the unrlyg msage and risk volved mak Elsa’s story feel like a g-out arc om the get-go. It’s all jt about as gay as pure subtext gets. Some subsectn of the fandom has wanted Elsa to be gay sce Frozen premiered 2013.