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• DISNEY CANCELS WOKE ‘WILLOW’ AFTER ONE SEASON: SERI FEATURED TRANSGENR ACTOR, GAY ROMANCE
• AFTER OZ LEFT WILLOW, WHY DID SHE BEE GAY AND NOT BISEXUAL?
• WHAT IF XANR HAD BEEN GAY STEAD OF WILLOW?
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

DISNEY CANCELS WOKE ‘WILLOW’ AFTER ONE SEASON: SERI FEATURED TRANSGENR ACTOR, GAY ROMANCE

Many salty and homophobic fans took to Twter to exprs their anger over what Disney is makg the days and how “that’s basilly all they n thk of now”. Fans of Disney didn’t take too long to spew out homophobic statements and how Disney only wants to show off the good si of clivy while brgg the narrative to a total zero.

On the other si, several fans also praised Disney for takg such a bold step and helpg people e to terms wh homosexual relatns. If you did nothg but watch morn Disney movi, you would thk a quarter of the populatn is gay when realy, is about 1%. d be more of a surprise if disney put somethg new out that didn’t nta at least one scene of gay romance.

Potentially unpopular opn: Willow was not gay, she was bisexual.

AFTER OZ LEFT WILLOW, WHY DID SHE BEE GAY AND NOT BISEXUAL?

If she was actually gay the entire time, then she wouldn't have been so sponnt over Xanr ignorg her seasons 1 and 2, and then later so heartbroken when everythg went down wh Oz. Is ever explicly stated that Willow is gay?

I know people disver/accept their sexualy at different pots their life but I feel like if Willow was gay she would have known ep down somewhere and wouldn't have wanted to have so much timacy wh Oz. Was makg Willow Gay a non anic move on the part of the wrers/Whedon? I have a iend who, IMO, cynilly believ that Willow was hetero ially and was "ma gay" to appeal to men.

Willow n be terpreted as eher gay or bisexual, and both terpretatns are valid. Puttg wokens ont and center, the seri featured a gay romance between two ma characters while also stg a transgenr actor a proment role. Actrs Er Kellyman told The Hollywood Reporter that the gay kiss scene was “important” for “queer” reprentatn.

WHAT IF XANR HAD BEEN GAY STEAD OF WILLOW?

I thk for anybody that is stgglg wh realizg that they’re gay, or knows somebody that’s realizg that they’re gay, havg this normalized reprentatn is jt so important, ” she said. Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 2 featured s first gay mor character Larry (Larry Bagby III) and troduced s first lbian relatnship season 4 when Willow and Tara beme a uple.

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This ia is herently harmful to the bisexual muny, as they often receive cricism for "not beg gay enough" or "not beg straight enough" which is why tly posive bisexual reprentatn is hard to fd on televisn.

Sce the WB work was so hant at portrayg gay relatnships on televisn the '90s, much of Willow and Tara's romance was portrayed through magil metaphors season 4 up until their relatnship stat was nfirmed Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 4, episo 19, "New Moon Risg". The trope "Bury Your Gays" refers to when an LGBTQ+ character is killed off eher to further the story or simply as the end of their narrative, a trend that harkens back s to a time when LGBTQ+ were not allowed to have any sort of happy endg. In Buffy seasons 6 and 7 Andrew was d wh several gay stereotyp (mostly his unspoken csh directed at the villao Warren Mears), and his subtextually hidn sexualy was often played for lghs.

Although the actor Tom Lenk's real-life advocy for LGBTQ+ rights and reprentatn (and imprsive performance as Andrew) is still mendable, Andrew's sexualy on Buffy the Vampire Slayer was ultimately unveloped and relied too heavily on stereotyp surroundg closeted gay men. Has Star Trek's Sulu Always Been Gay? “You don’t spend half of the seri batg whether they’re love or not … I feel like when I’ve watched queer shows before, you spend half the time jt hopg that they actually are gay.