“Lilo & Stch” Meant the World to My Gay, Parentls 10-Year-Old Self | Teen Vogue

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In honor of the movie’s 15th anniversary, one wrers talks about the personal impact Disney’s “Lilo & Stch” had on him as a gay, parentls child

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“LILO & STCH” MEANT THE WORLD TO MY GAY, PARENTLS 10-YEAR-OLD SELF

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Lilo even feeds peanut butter sandwich to a fish that “ntrols the weather” which the other girls sneer a gay kid I always knew I was different, but havg ad parents ma me really different.

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I uldn’t help but feel Lilo’s lonels and isolatn as a reflectn of my own stggl fdg muny as a gay kid and child of ad urty of the thor. As a gay person, ’s also difficult not to read to some of the film’s subtext.

STITCH: A POIGNANT RELATNSHIP BETWEEN TWO YOUNG GAY MEN

The aliens who e to pture Stch, Jumbaa and Pleakly, often read as a pictn of a gay uple.

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STITCH: Two Gay Men and A Film Stop-Motn Animatn .

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