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Contents:

• HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON 3 CONFIRMS [SPOILER] IS GAY, AND IT'S GREAT
• HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON: AN AD-LIB MA GOBBER A RARE GAY ANIMATED HERO
• 'HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON 2': IS GOBBER REALLY GAY?— SPOILERS
• ‘HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON’ CHARACTER COM OUT AS GAY, DIRECTOR CONFIRMS
• 'HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON' CHARACTER GOBBER OUT AS GAY
• 'HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON' CHARACTER OUT AS GAY, DIRECTOR NFIRMS
• 'HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON' CHARACTER GOBBER IS GAY
• SO, HOW GAY IS ‘HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON 2’?
• SO, HOW GAY IS HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON?
• HOW TO TRA DRAGON'S GOBBER IS GAY

HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON 3 CONFIRMS [SPOILER] IS GAY, AND IT'S GREAT

How to Tra Your Dragon 3 Confirms [SPOILER] Is Gay, and It's Great. How to Tra Your Dragon: The Hidn World fearlsly nfirms a major character is gay.

One way the anchise's creators add dimensns to Gobber was to subtly imply that he was gay prev films. The openly gay DeBlois told outlets at the time that the reason he kept the improvised le the film was bee, "I thk 's nice. The only other character who filled the mentor archetype and was openly gay was Dumbledore om the Harry Potter seri, but that wasn't ma clear until the after the seri had nclud.

HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON: AN AD-LIB MA GOBBER A RARE GAY ANIMATED HERO

By ntrast, Gobber beg gay is troduced right smack dab the middle of the seri. Gay characters animatn are still a rary, even the morn day. He's a great mentor figure for the film seri and a great example of a gay character.

As the cultural landspe chang and grows, 's important that characters om the broad spectm of humany be reprented, and, by makg Gobber quietly but nfintly gay, the How to Tra Your Dragon anchise manag to actually stand out among other fantasy anchis. How To Tra Your Dragon: An Ad-Lib Ma Gobber A Rare Gay Animated Hero.

How To Tra Your Dragon’s Gobber wasn’t imaged as a gay character but thanks to Craig Fergon’s improvisatn he beme an animated gay champn. The ad-lib ronated wh trilogy director Dean DeBlois, who is openly gay and cid to keep the le.

'HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON 2': IS GOBBER REALLY GAY?— SPOILERS

Havg a gay character the How To Tra Your Dragon trilogy was a progrsive move for a fay-oriented animatn, which typilly aren’t very LGBTQ clive.

In fact, Gobber is one of the few openly gay characters a mastream animated film alongsi Casey Affleck’s Mch 2012’s ParaNorman.

‘HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON’ CHARACTER COM OUT AS GAY, DIRECTOR CONFIRMS

The tis are changg, however; Disney’s Zootopia featured the subtle cln of a married gay uple (antelop Bucky and Pronk Oryx-Antlerson) and Netflix animated seri She-Ra And The Prcs Of Power featur several LGBTQ characters. Hopefully, Goober How To Tra Your Dragon and other openly gay characters like him is a sign of thgs to e.

Next: Why Disney's First Gay Character Matters.

Or… is Gobber gay?

'HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON' CHARACTER GOBBER OUT AS GAY

Bee I'm a gay man, and I don't draw attentn to myself for that reason. " Gobber isn't the first gay character a mastream animated movie; Mch (Casey Affleck) was a gay dumb jock 2012's ParaNorman. In the upg animated sequel to “How to Tra Your Dragon, ” the gged vikg character Gobber is g out as gay.

I love the ia that Gobber is Berk’s rint gay. Also read: Fox News Host Awkwardly Backtracks After Callg Gee Clooney Gay (Vio).

'HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON' CHARACTER OUT AS GAY, DIRECTOR NFIRMS

Dean DeBlois revealed that the reason Gobber never got married is that he is homosexual.

This mak him the first gay character of the anchise and wh the DreamWorks rp. Whether or not this means Gobber is actually bisexual, or urted women before he realized he was homosexual is never elaborated on. Gobber the Belch is a gay character om How To Tra Your Dragon.

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'HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON' CHARACTER GOBBER IS GAY

(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Imag)The film's openly gay director Dean DeBlois nfirmed that the subtle ht was, ed, Gobber g out. I love the ia that Gobber is Berk's rint gay. In the margs of Craig's script where he was suppose to say "This is why I never married", Dean wrote "That and one other reason", referrg to himself sce he (Dean) is gay.

After HTTYD2 me out, fans started askg what the "other reason" was, and fally an terview Dean explaed: Gobber never got married for the same reason Dean had never gotten married, therefore Gobber was also gay. They were somewhat subtle about bee 's still a touchy topic children's entertament (and as much as we want to ny , the HTTYD anchise is directed towards children) "Cshg It" was one of the first RttE episos wrten, and was probably wrten even before HTTYD2 me out much ls that le that Gobber says beg famo, was not yet known by even the st and crew that Gobber would be nfirmed gay.

So his love tert "Bertha" was created before anyone cid that he was gay.

SO, HOW GAY IS ‘HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON 2’?

How To Tra Your Dragon character Gobber apparently out as gay the film’s sequel, which is premierg at the Cann Film Ftival Friday night. How To Tra Your Dragon's Gay Character. "When we were rerdg Craig Fergon, I had wrten the le, 'This is why I never got married, ' and he, as he often do, add as an ad lib and he said, 'Yup, Gobber is g out of the closet, '" openly gay How To Tra Your Dragon wrer and director Dean DeBlois told E!

“I love the ia that Gobber is Berk's rint gay. “How to Tra Your Dragon’s Gobber the Belch Com Out As Gay, ” headl screamed the weeks prr to the release of DreamWorks’ animated sequel How to Tra Your Dragon 2. First, the ia that Gobber is gay is a new addn to his character, not somethg the filmmakers tend om the start.

SO, HOW GAY IS HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON?

“Comg out” impli revealg a prevly secret realy; if the filmmakers have now cid that Gobber is gay, that’s a newly vented fact about him, not a prevly secret one. “I thk that's a really fun [and] darg move to put , ” wrer–director Dean DuBlois (who is gay) told E! Is there any evince that Gobber’s gayns go beyond this one le?

As gay nuendo go, “one other reason” is a lot ls overt than some of the humor DreamWorks’ Madagasr 2: Espe 2 Ai or Happy Feet Two, say. (It’s startg to look like a sequel thg, although there was gay humor the origal Happy Feet too. To say that I got a lot of flak for my “So, How Gay IS Disney’s Frozen?

Ironilly, my observatns were wily shared by many other crics and observers, cludg many who embraced Frozen’s gayns. (As Adams accurately characterized me his IndieWire piece, my answer to my own qutn “How gay is Frozen? As I noted my post, any gay them Frozen are “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.

HOW TO TRA DRAGON'S GOBBER IS GAY

I n unrstand parents and others who have embraced Frozen, Happy Feet and other animated films takg umbrage at arguments about gay them the films. To the pure all thgs are pure, and I have no wish to thwart those who n and want to enjoy the movi whout beg troubled by qutns of gay them. “I thk that's a really fun [and] darg move to put , ” wrer–director Dean DuBlois (who is gay) told E!

How To Tra Your Dragon 2 will be cemas JulyHow To Tra Your Dragon character Gobber is set to e out as gay the sequel, has been macho Vikg, who is voiced by Late Late Show host Craig Fergon the animatn, appeared the first movie and returns How To Tra Your Dragon is seen watchg a hband and wife argue the new film, and says that's why he never got married, then adds there is another reason. Casey Affleck voiced teenage jock Mch the edy horror movie, who out as gay the To Tra Your Dragon 2 - which has an all-star voice st cludg Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Jonah Hill and Game Of Thron actor K Harrgton - follows a new battle to keep the peace between humans and dragons.