Jungle Cise: Disney’s First Gay Ma Character (& Comg Out Scene) Explaed

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The realy, of urse, is that LGBTQ characters abound on TV and the movi. And if you intify as LGBTQ and want to see someone like yourself on the screen, you n readily do , right up to beg a gay or bi or trans superhero.

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13 CLASSIC DISNEY CHARACTERS WHO WERE PROBABLY GAY

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The "Bear Necsi" is a double entendre for "bare/bear" - but uld also be a triple entendre for the exprsn "bear, " a hairy gay man? Young bears gay culture are lled "cubs" much as Mowgli was lled Man-cub.

Needls to say, Pocch's *TERRIFIED*; and though he's gay as Dorothy Gale's place over the rabow, he *feels NOTHING WHATSOEVER* towards Mowgli save for fear, disgt, and he's not alone this dark place that he's sudnly found himself as he fears- Father do not chuckle and wk, the Rivera Fay is rarg and READY wh their no-blisters boots hand, his *TRUE iends* cludg his psdo godparents are *FURIOUS*.. And the live-actn Bety and the Beast featured a “gay” moment between Gaston and his adorg manservant LeFou. But are there any tly gay Disney characters?

‘JUNGLE CISE’S’ GAY CHARACTER IS YET ANOTHER BABY STEP FROM DISNEY

But make no mistake: a lot of classic Disney characters were totally gay.

Check out our list of gay Disney characters below:. Shere Khan’s bored aristocratic manner of speech got him mentned LGBTQ lguistic documentary Do I Sound Gay? The word “gay” may be aquate to scribe Ursula.

WHY DID DISNEY’S JUNGLE CISE HAVE TO GO GAY?

Not all classic gay Disney characters were villas. They’re social outsts (bee of homophobia, possibly), and they talk about butts an awful lot. What do you thk of our list of supposed gay Disney characters?

He’s gay.

It’s another step om Disney toward LGBTQ+ reprentatn that feels big the ntext of the opprsively heterosexual rporatn—certaly, ’s an improvement over some of the lghably meangls Disney “gay moments” recent years—but small the ntext of the year 2021. This is hardly the first time mastream Ameri has seen a gay man on a TV or movie screen.

JUNGLE CISE: DISNEY’S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER (AND COMG OUT SCENE) EXPLAED

McGregor Houghton (Whehall) had already been d as a gay man, somewhat stereotypilly, throughout the film—fsy, effemate, and a ltle too to skre. ) But about an hour to the film, Frank and McGregor share a quiet moment together, which McGregor reveals— so many words— that he recently me out as gay to his fay.

In 2017, Bety and the Beast director Bill Condon promised an “exclively gay moment a Disney movie, ” which turned out to be a two-send shot of LeFou—as played by Josh Gad—dancg wh a man the film’s fal ball sequence, jt before the creds roll. Two years later, Avengers: Endgame -director Joe Rso revealed the film would feature the Marvel Cematic Universe’s first-ever openly gay character, which turned out to be a random du (played by Rso) g male pronouns to refer to his romantic partner. Unsurprisgly, the queer muny has not rpond wh gratu to the gay bread cmbs om Disney.

Unlike Bety and the Beast, his “gay moment” is an actual, hont-to-God scene that lasts for longer than two sends, and is not thrown at the very end of the film. For once, the filmmakers didn’t proudly announce “Disney’s first gay character” while pattg themselv on the back for “reprentatn. ) There’s even a good exce to avoid the word “gay, ” given that Jungle Cise tak place the early 1900s, a time when the term “gay” ually meant feelg happy and nothg more.

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

Some may argue—reasonably so—that a movie about a magil tree and ghosts is allowed a gay anachronism or two.

Personally, I re ls about hearg the word “gay, ” so much as I re about beg shown that McGregor is actually attracted to men.

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LGBT rights activists have weled the iative but regret the absence of the word “gayIn the blockbter. Jungle Cise, the new adventure film om Disney wh the good scent of nostalgia, neverthels featur a first for the enchanted kgdom: one of s characters reveals his homosexualy. The young Brish dandy MacGregor, sailg the Amazon wh Capta Frank do not specifilly e the word “gay“, But explas havg broken three engagements wh women, his”terts»Rint«somewhere else».

But this historic smooch was also stigated by LGBT rights fenrs who saw as an opportunist symbol, like a short scene the mega-blockbter Avengers: Endgame, where an openly gay man participat a support group. “Disney will really do anythg to avoid g the word “gay” s mastream ntent“Declan Cash, a ntent manager for the social work, said on Twter.

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