Turns out, Barbieland isn't as gay as s queer fans had hoped

Contents:

• IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
• SO, HOW GAY IS DISNEY’S FROZEN?
• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
• THE GAY DAD’S GUI TO USG FROZEN DONOR EGG
• GAY DADS OF TRIPLETS REVEAL THE WILD QUTNS THEY GET: ‘WILL YOU STILL LOVE THEM IF THEY’RE STRAIGHT?’
• ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
• A GAY DAD TAK ON THE <EM>FROZEN</EM>-HATG MORMON GRANDMOTHER
• MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
• IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?

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

SO, HOW GAY IS DISNEY’S FROZEN?

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.

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TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

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. 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.

THE GAY DAD’S GUI TO USG FROZEN DONOR EGG

Oaken’s gay fay. Hey, did you notice the gay character?

GAY DADS OF TRIPLETS REVEAL THE WILD QUTNS THEY GET: ‘WILL YOU STILL LOVE THEM IF THEY’RE STRAIGHT?’

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. 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.

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.

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

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.

A GAY DAD TAK ON THE <EM>FROZEN</EM>-HATG MORMON GRANDMOTHER

Disney+ is velopg a Gay Dads TV Show. ‘Four Dads’ A Seri Centered On A Divorced Gay Couple Comg To Disney+ The DisInsir (@TheDisInsir) January 25, 2019 - Disney's upg streamg service is creatg a new s lled 'Four Dads'.

- The show is about Ethan and Sebastian, two gay dads who divorce each other and then separately remarry other partners.

“First of all, I’m gay, ” he said, “and this movie is gog to be gay non. "Alex AvilaAnd Gay Tim, a Brish LGBTQ news se, celebrated Friday, the day of the film’s official release, as “Barbie day“ and lled the world-renowned doll a “queer cultural phenomenon.

MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI

PicturIn an terview wh Fandango, actor Kate McKnon, who is openly gay and plays “Weird Barbie” the film, said Barbie is about “imagatn. Many also flagged the teased scene which Barbie, now the real world, exchang a longg look wh Ameri Ferrera’s Gloria character; though, the relatnship between the two turns out to be a tribute to motherhood and the tradnal, nuclear before the film’s release, Robbie all but squashed the mors that some or any of the Barbi and Kens would be gay, tellg the Brish LGBTQ magaze Attu: The dolls don’t “actually have sexual orientatns.

There are brief appearanc by Earrg Magic Ken and Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken, both of which Mattel has always nied were tentnally gay-d.

IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?

”As far as the queer-d trailers and promotnal clips for the new “Barbie” film, Rand poted to a phenomenon known as “gay wdow advertisg, ” or the practice of advertisers gturg to queer dienc a way that will go over the heads of those who would disapprove. And as we turn our attentn toward Pri month — and all that memorat, celebrat, and supports — we’d like to offer some helpful guidance to gay men who are hopg to create or grow their fai. And for gay men, the procs clus even more nsiratns and cisns.

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