It's a proven fact that most Disney films are pretty gay. Although the only overtly gay character is "The Fool" om the live-actn Bety and the Beast, movi like Mulan have challenged genr bari, and movi like Frozen have drawn parallels to the queer experience. But Disney's foray to queer…
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- DISNEY'S FROZEN IS 'VERY EVIL' GAY PROPAGANDA, SAYS CHRISTIAN PASTOR
- SHOW YOURSELF: FROZEN II AND ITS (CONTUG) POWERFUL GAY ALLEGORY
- DISNEY'S FROZEN AND THE 'GAY AGENDA'
- IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
- DISNEY NOW HAS THE PERFECT OPPORTUNY TO CONFIRM ELSA'S GAY INTY - INSI THE MAGIC
- SO, HOW GAY IS DISNEY’S FROZEN?
- 8 WAYS FROZEN IS DISNEY’S GAYT ANIMATED FILM YET
- IS ELSA GAY? WHY FROZEN 2 DON'T ADDRS THE TOPIC
- FROZEN IS THE GAY AGENDA
DISNEY'S FROZEN IS 'VERY EVIL' GAY PROPAGANDA, SAYS CHRISTIAN PASTOR
(Note: This article ntas spoilers for Frozen and Frozen II. It also ntas the discsn of gay subtext a Disney movie. If that bothers you, like…leave lol) Sce the release of 2013’s… * frozen gay allegory *
Get our ee weekly email for all the latt cematic news om our film cric Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cematic email for eeDisney’s h movie Frozen enurag homosexualy and btialy. Or at least, that’s what one Christian pastor Kev Swanson of the Reformatn Church, who hosts a Christian rad show Colorado and sists he is not a "til hat nspiratorialist", scribed the animated film as "very evil" and nounced Disney as "one of the most pro-homosexual anisatns the untry". "I wonr if people are thkg: ‘You know I thk this cute ltle movie is gog to doctrate my 5-year-old to be a lbian or treat homosexualy or btialy a light sort of way’.
SHOW YOURSELF: FROZEN II AND ITS (CONTUG) POWERFUL GAY ALLEGORY
* frozen gay allegory *
Swanson, who believ Christians will one day be burned at the stake by homosexuals, is not the first to label Disney’s films as pro-gay propaganda. His rant was spired by a blog entled ‘So, How Gay is Disney’s Frozen’ on the Natnal Catholic Register, which film cric Steven D Greydan argu Frozen is full of “gay culture them”. Plan to-renews until ncelledTry for eeGarbaro’s church will likely ll blasphemy on his opn, after the nomatn boytted Disney for eight years the Neti for what they saw as the stud’s promotn of a “gay agenda” has been a worldwi succs for Disney, recently beg the send animated feature ever to cross the $1 billn mark at the global box office, after Toy Story 3.
It also ntas the discsn of gay subtext a Disney movie. If that bothers you, like…leave lol)Sce the release of 2013’s Frozen, a certa subset of the dience has thought of Elsa as a gay character. It was certaly enough to start onle “Give Elsa a Girliend” mpaigns and impromptu gay club performanc.
DISNEY'S FROZEN AND THE 'GAY AGENDA'
In dog so, Frozen II prents one of the strongt gay msag morn cema.
Elsa revers the wter, livg fortably as Queen of the plot of the first movie is looked at through the lens of a gay allegory, Elsa realiz as a child that she is “different”, is trmatized when she realiz that her “differenc” uld be harmful to her fay, and she shuts herself off om them while mtg to hidg this part of herself forever. And that’s where we return to the gay, aga, one uld look at the end of Frozen as “she’s happy now!
Personally, as a gay man, “Show Yourself” activated tears that I hadn’t felt sce high school. 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.
IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
"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. It's Not Jt Frozen: Most Disney Movi Are Pro-GayBy preachg acceptance and qutng genr, the pany's kids films offer a queer-studi crash urse.
DISNEY NOW HAS THE PERFECT OPPORTUNY TO CONFIRM ELSA'S GAY INTY - INSI THE MAGIC
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. Gay pri events have been hosted at Disney World sce 1991, and the pany started offered s gay employe health surance benefs for their partners sce 1995, a cisn that wasn’t entirely popular back of the most poignant exampl of the pany’s tolerant atmosphere is the se of lyricist Howard Ashman, who was openly gay and died of AIDS 1991.
In this way, even though Disney films ually offer a tradnal happy endg wh a heterosexual marriage, the journey always volv rejectg parental and societal expectatns, and exercisg a “eedom to marry whomever you love” spir that is enmic to gay, many Disney romanc are exampl of “impossible sire, ” a trope that is ccial to the queer experience, as genr-studi theorist Heather Love argued Feelg Backward.
In The Queer Child Kathryn Bond Stockton argu that queerns is not jt about homosexualy, but also about growg abnormal ways that mak the child an outst.
SO, HOW GAY IS DISNEY’S FROZEN?
The ia of Elsa beg gay was further enhanced after Disney Animatn released the Frozen 2 trailer durg Pri month 2019, wh the sequel self suggtg a potential future relatnship between Elsa and Honeymaren (Rachel Matthews). While Disney didn’t exprsly nfirm Elsa’s LGBTQ+ inty the Frozen anchise, the Queer-dg led fans to believe she was gay.
8 WAYS FROZEN IS DISNEY’S GAYT ANIMATED FILM YET
There has been a shift, though, Disney animatn, as the stud announced that the upg Strange World (2023) will feature Disney’s first openly gay teen romance. 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.
IS ELSA GAY? WHY FROZEN 2 DON'T ADDRS THE TOPIC
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.
FROZEN IS THE GAY AGENDA
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 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.