Timon, Pumbaa, Rapunzel: Were The Disney Characters Gay? | HuffPost Voic

Contents:

• ARE TIMON AND PUMBAA OM 'THE LN KG' GAY?
• BILLY EICHNER DENI THAT TIMON & PUMBAA ARE A GAY COUPLE
• 16 DISNEY CHARACTERS WHO WERE PROBABLY GAY
• TIMON, PUMBAA, RAPUNZEL: WERE THE DISNEY CHARACTERS GAY?
• BILLY EICHNER NFIRMS HE PLAYED TIMON WH A “GAY SENSIBILY”

ARE TIMON AND PUMBAA OM 'THE LN KG' GAY?

[Ln Kg] Timon and Pumbaa reprent homosexualy. Cape Town – Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen, who voice Timon and Pumbaa the live-actn The Ln Kg remake, say although they don’t thk and they n’t nfirm whether or not their characters are gay, we do need more LGBTQ reprentatn on screen.

Eichner mented that people often assume bee the actor is gay, the character they play mt be too. "I mean, I’m gay and Nathan Lane’s gay, so ’s tertg when a straight actor do a role, no one’s like, ‘That character mt be straight.

’ But bee ’s Nathan and me they’re like, ‘Oh, Timon mt be gay.

BILLY EICHNER DENI THAT TIMON & PUMBAA ARE A GAY COUPLE

’ Which is not to say he’s not gay. "It would be ol to see more openly LGBT characters fay entertament and animated films, " he said, "so we don’t have to have annoyg discsns about whether Bert and Ernie are gay or not.

""Hopefully movg forward there will be openly gay characters the typ of movi.

16 DISNEY CHARACTERS WHO WERE PROBABLY GAY

"In an terview wh Buzzfeed News, Eichner said we always have to look for the “closeted gay character” films when we should fact be more open, hont and clive of everyone.

"Well, that really opened the door to more gay rats gettg married, which I really appreciate. Billy Eichner is openg up about havg more gay characters animated movi.

TIMON, PUMBAA, RAPUNZEL: WERE THE DISNEY CHARACTERS GAY?

The 40-year-old actor – who voic Timon new live-actn The Ln Kg – said a recent terview that he wants to see more gay characters on screen that aren’t a “mystery. “Gay people always had to sort of search for the closeted gay character, bee there were no openly gay characters, and we were so thirsty for them, ” Billy shared wh Buzzfeed.

“People are always tryg to fd the gay character animated movi. I thk the way to rrect that is to actually put gay characters animated movi…One of the last ontiers for LGBT reprentatn is animated fay films.

I don’t re if Bert and Ernie are gay. I want to see actual gay people that are not a mystery. The way to move on om all those bat is to jt create openly gay characters children’s programmg and fay entertament.

BILLY EICHNER NFIRMS HE PLAYED TIMON WH A “GAY SENSIBILY”

From beg the first pany to extend healthre benefs to partners of homosexual employe to hostg gay pri events at Disney world, Disney and the majory of s films have bee subject to queer theorists and readgs around the world. Wh the arrival of “d gays” and “foppish fashnable villas, ” Disney have laid out on a plate for queer rears and now wh the latt announcement of a film solely based on two out-and-proud gay prc, ’s time to take a look at the not so fortunate on who were so ungracefully banished to the rtoon closet. Thgs are workg out acrdg to my ultimate sign…” On the other hand, we have the overtly male “butch” lbian who reprents the evil of homosexualy tent on turng the wholly nocent straight girl (Ariel) and filtratg mankd wh her dastardly lbian tentacl.

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