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Contents:

• IS FROZEN 2 THE FIRST DISNEY MOVIE WH AN OPENLY GAY LEAD?
• IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
• SO, HOW GAY IS DISNEY’S FROZEN?
• DISNEY NOW HAS THE PERFECT OPPORTUNY TO CONFIRM ELSA'S GAY INTY - INSI THE MAGIC
• DISNEY'S FROZEN AND THE 'GAY AGENDA'
• ELSA GAY AND HAS GIRLIEND ‘FROZEN 3,’ ACRDG TO SOURC
• IS ‘FROZEN’ THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR?
• DISNEY'S FROZEN IS 'VERY EVIL' GAY PROPAGANDA, SAYS CHRISTIAN PASTOR
• 8 WAYS FROZEN IS DISNEY’S GAYT ANIMATED FILM YET
• ELSA GAY AND HAS GIRLIEND ‘FROZEN 3,’ ACRDG TO SOURC
• DISNEY NOW HAS THE PERFECT OPPORTUNY TO CONFIRM ELSA'S GAY INTY - INSI THE MAGIC

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

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.

IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY

Y, people actually are terted whether the Disney character is gay. 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.

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.

SO, HOW GAY IS DISNEY’S FROZEN?

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.

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.

DISNEY NOW HAS THE PERFECT OPPORTUNY TO CONFIRM ELSA'S GAY INTY - INSI THE MAGIC

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.

DISNEY'S FROZEN AND THE 'GAY AGENDA'

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.

ELSA GAY AND HAS GIRLIEND ‘FROZEN 3,’ ACRDG TO SOURC

Gay fai and their alli mt take their nsolatns where they n fd them, and ntent themselv for the most part wh wks and nods, hts and subtexts. And yet, this se the filmmakers have walked that le really well: so well that the pro-gay them have gone right over the heads of untls adult Christian viewers, many of whom have embraced Frozen as ronatg powerfully wh Christian them. 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. 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. 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.

IS ‘FROZEN’ THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR?

"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.

In the origal film, the ice queen’s sister Anna (played by Kristen Bell) got all the love-story actn, leavg many the LGBTQ muny hopg and wonrg if Elsa might be gay. Elsa Gay and Has a Girliend Frozen 3. Wh there beg six years between the first and send movi, Frozen 3 is likely far om g to un—but this wouldn’t be the first move Disney has ma to ph a homosexual agenda.

Acrdg to Fahwire, “The Disney Channel ma history 2017 when Joshua Ryan, who played Cys the ‘Andi Mack’ seri, beme the first character to utter the phrase, ‘I’m gay. In the same year, Disney stirred up major ntroversy when they promoted an “exclively gay moment” Bety and the Beast, between LeFou and a henchman drsed as a woman.

DISNEY'S FROZEN IS 'VERY EVIL' GAY PROPAGANDA, SAYS CHRISTIAN PASTOR

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.

8 WAYS FROZEN IS DISNEY’S GAYT ANIMATED FILM YET

”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. ” 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.

ELSA GAY AND HAS GIRLIEND ‘FROZEN 3,’ ACRDG TO SOURC

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.

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? 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.

DISNEY NOW HAS THE PERFECT OPPORTUNY TO CONFIRM ELSA'S GAY INTY - INSI THE MAGIC

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. I'm nstantly ridiculed and lled gay (when actualy I'm asexual) bee I'm a 25 year old male who is obssed wh Frozen!