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

Elsa will be gay and have a girliend the third stallment of Frozen, si sourc have claimed. Acrdg to We Got This Covered, the stud is wag until Frozen 3 bee the sequel may be too soon. * gay frozen *

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. 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 GIRLIEND ‘FROZEN 3,’ ACRDG TO SOURC

Is Elsa gay? That’s the qutn ‘Frozen’ fans are askg ahead of the ‘Frozen II’ release and followg a 2016 Twter mpaign lled #GetElsaAGirliend. * gay frozen *

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.

SO, HOW GAY IS DISNEY’S FROZEN?

* gay frozen *

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

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. Oaken’s gay fay.

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

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.

BEN SHAPIRO PREDICTS THAT GAY ‘FROZEN’ SEQUEL WILL SPARK DISNEY’S DOWNFALL

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. 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.

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

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.

IS ELSA GAY? WHY FROZEN 2 DON'T ADDRS THE TOPIC

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.

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.

DISNEY’S ‘FROZEN’ IS NOT A ‘GAY’ FILM (BUT I WISH WERE)

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. Shapiro isn’t the first to terpret Elsa as gay; ever sce Frozen was released, Elsa has been herald as a queer in, as her story is that of reprsed inty (her ice powers), which fally emerge durg her inic “Let It Go” scene. Matos wrote: “Elsa’s treatment is also eerily remiscent of practic that take place durg the procs of gay nversn therapy, which subjects are ndned through medative and repetive procs to supprs certa urg and sir that occur naturally.

IS ‘FROZEN’ THE GAYT MOVIE OF THE YEAR?HI YOUR KIDS! ANTI-GAY NSPIRACY THEORISTS WARN THAT THE CRILLY-ACCLAIMED RTOON IS ACTUALLY HOMOSEXUAL PROPAGANDA.CAL DICKSONUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 1:13PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 12, 2014 5:45AM EDT DISNEYFROZEN MIGHT JT BE THE MOST TALKED-ABOUT KIDS MOVIE SCE TOY STORY, BUT ’S NOT ALL ACLAS AND AWARDS FOR THE OSR-WNG ANIMATED FLICK. 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. IT SEEMS TO HAVE STARTED WH KATHRYN SKAGGS WHO, ACRDG TO THE TLE OF HER BLOG, IS “A WELL-BEHAVED MORMON WOMAN.” AFTER BEG DRAGGED AGAST HER WILL THREE DIFFERENT TIM BY THREE SETS OF GRANDCHILDREN TO SEE FROZEN, SKAGGS ULDN’T “LET IT GO” ANY LONGER. 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!“IT IS APPARENT THAT THE VERY BT TALENT WH THE DTRY WAS LLED UPON FOR EVERY FACET OF PRODUCG AND BRGG [FROZEN] TO THE BIG SCREEN: ILLTRATORS; ANIMATORS; WRERS; POSERS; SGG ARTIST; ACTORS; ETC., ORR TO WOO S TEND DIENCE, PARENTS, TO A OZEN-STATE, WHICH WOULD THEN ALLOW LIBERALISM TO DOCTRATE CHILDREN,” SKAGGS WROTE LENGTHY BLOG POST LAST MONTH. 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. YET, AS IS OFTEN THE SE WH OUTRAGEO, POLILLY-CHARGED NSPIRACY THEORI, SOMEONE WAS BOUND TO BE.“IF I WAS THE DEVIL, WHAT WOULD I DO TO REALLY FOUL UP AN ENTIRE SOCIAL SYSTEM AND DO SOMETHG REALLY, REALLY, REALLY EVIL TO FIVE- AND SIX- AND SEVEN-YEAR-OLDS CHRISTIAN FAI AROUND AMERI?” PASTOR AND RIGHT-WG RAD HOST KEV SWANSON ASKED ON HIS SHOW MONDAY. “I WOULD BUY DISNEY.”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.’ I WONR IF THE AVERAGE PARENT GOG TO SEE FROZEN IS THKG THAT WAY. I WONR IF THEY ARE JT WALKG AND SAYG, ‘YEAH, LET’S GET MY FIVE-YEAR-OLD AND SEVEN-YEAR-OLD DOCTRATED EARLY.’ YOU KNOW THEY’RE NOT, I THK FOR THE MOST PART THEY’RE OBLIV. MAYBE THEY DO PICK UP ON PIEC OF , BUT THEY JT DON’T GET UP AND WALK OUT.”LIKE SKAGGS, NEHER SWANSON NOR HIS -HOST STEVE VGHN, OFFER MUCH THE WAY OF SPECIFIC EXAMPL OF L, SCEN OR EVEN THEM THE MOVIE THAT PROVE THEIR POT. 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.” ELSA’S NON-MAGIL SISTER ANNA’S SHOTGUN WEDDG TO SOMEONE SHE BARELY KNOWS IS MEANT TO ILLTRATE HOW “HETEROSEXUALS DIMISH MARRIAGE.” 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. IF THAT’S NOT ENOUGH, FOLLOWG THE CLOSG CREDS “ELSA’S GIANT, MALE-VOICED SNOW MONSTER, WANRG THROUGH HER ABANDONED ICE PALACE, PICKS UP HER ABANDONED TIARA AND PLAC DATILY ON HIS OWN HEAD, SG AS DISVERS S TE NER PRCS.”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. HOWEVER, THERE SEEMS TO BE SOMETHG ABOUT FROZEN THAT HAS ATTRACTED MORE THAN THE UAL AMOUNT OF NTROVERSY FOR A KIDS’ RTOON.FROZEN IS A FEMIST MOVIE, CLAIMED SOME CRICS, BEE NEHER OF S FEMALE PROTAGONISTS ARE RCUED BY A HANDSOME PRCE THE END BUT, RATHER, THEY SAVE THEMSELV. FROZEN IS NOT SO FEMIST, OTHERS ARGUED, BEE ELSA’S CLIMACTIC “G OUT,” IF YOU WILL, CLUS AN ARGUABLY SEXY MAKEOVER. OTHERS STILL TOOK THE TIME TO LL FROZEN RACIST, ACCG DISNEY OF “WHEWASHG” THE DIGENO PEOPLE OF SNDAVIA, WHERE THE ANIMATED FILM IS SUPPOSED TO TAKE PLACE. 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 AWARDS. THOSE FEARG FROZEN’S HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA MIGHT WANT TO NSIR THE AGENDAS OF S CRICS. 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 TO. CAL DICKSON

Shapiro’s fear of an imaged gay Frozen sequel me the midst of his rant about Bud Light, which recently igned a lengthy, ranged backlash after partnerg wh TikTok star and trans activist Dylan Mulvaney to promote the beer on social media.

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