Is Frozen 2 the first Disney movie wh an openly gay lead? - CNET

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• IS FROZEN 2 THE FIRST DISNEY MOVIE WH AN OPENLY GAY LEAD?
• WHY ELSA DON'T HAVE A LOVE STORY, GAY OR OTHERWISE, 'FROZEN 2'
• IS ELSA GAY? WHY FROZEN 2 DON'T ADDRS THE TOPIC
• FROZEN 2 SPOILERS: IS ELSA GAY? ANIMATOR OPENS UP ON LGBTQ REPRENTATN 'IT'S BETIFUL'
• IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
• SHOW YOURSELF: FROZEN II AND ITS (CONTUG) POWERFUL GAY ALLEGORY
• 'FROZEN 2' PLOT & TRAILER: FILM TO FEATURE LGBT ISSU, LEAD CHARACTER RUMORED TO BE GAY; WILL IT BE ELSA OR ANNA?
• 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

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

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.

"But far om givg the whole story away, the trailer also teased a new directn the film might take, one that fans have been hopg for ever sce Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee’s animated h first dropped 2013… the Snow Queen will fally e out as gay. What’s more, some have suggted Elsa’s lourful transformatn is another ht towards the gay Disney storyle we’ve all been wag for. Historilly, Disney hasn’t been the bt for gay, bi and trans reprentatn.

DisneyBut Elsa’s not the only not-so-secret gay character troduced the film. DisneySo much so that #GiveElsaAGirliend ntu to trend on Twter, wh hundreds of fans askg Disney to nfirm Elsa as an openly gay character the sequel.

WHY ELSA DON'T HAVE A LOVE STORY, GAY OR OTHERWISE, 'FROZEN 2'

”Whatever route Elsa’s arc tak the sequel, ’s clear the world is more than ready for a gay Disney Prcs – Frozen 2 might fally be the time for the Snow Queen to let go. "Dpe many popular theori that Queen Elsa "Frozen" is gay, she don't have any love tert "Frozen 2.

Ever sce "Frozen" premiered 2013, people the LGBTQ muny have found Queen Elsa's story to be a powerful allegory for queer inty, and hoped she might be given a gay love tert the g Elsa don't have any type of romantic partner the upg movie, spe the popular fan theori about her sexualy. Fans have speculated about Elsa's sexualy sce Frozen was first released 2013, but Frozen 2 still don't addrs whether or not she's gay.

Given Disney's fear of alienatg parents (or media censors untri like Rsia) who aren't tolerant of LGBTQ+ them children's entertament, 's not surprisg that the stud didn't make Elsa gay Frozen 2.

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

The st and creators of the Frozen movi are much more on board wh a gay Elsa than Disney seems to be.

Rpons on the matter range om vague to hopeful, givg fans a spark of possibily for a gay Elsa the future.

While the films have heavily hted at Elsa's sexualy wh subtext the lyrics and through Elsa's strong relatnships wh women, n fans expect Disney to make her the first gay Disney prcs a third movie?

FROZEN 2 SPOILERS: IS ELSA GAY? ANIMATOR OPENS UP ON LGBTQ REPRENTATN 'IT'S BETIFUL'

Why Frozen Fans Want Elsa To Be Gay. "Let Go" beme a gay anthem for those stgglg wh or embracg their sexualy, and all Disney had to do was give Elsa a girliend.

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

A gay Elsa isn't the only oute that fans would stand behd, though. Fans n make a se for Elsa beg asexual or aromantic as easily as her beg gay or bisexual. Whether Elsa is gay, aromantic, asexual, or any batn of the three remas to be seen, but there's a lot standg the way of that happeng.

SHOW YOURSELF: FROZEN II AND ITS (CONTUG) POWERFUL GAY ALLEGORY

Why Frozen 2 Don't Addrs The Elsa Is Gay Theory. More signifint gay relatnships have appeared on smaller-sle Disney+ shows - but wh the more nservative nature of major Disney films, would have taken a miracle for Disney to make Elsa gay.

It wasn't likely that Disney would risk parents boyttg their most succsful animated anchise by makg Frozen's leadg lady gay. When asked about the lack of gay Elsa Frozen 2, director Jennifer Lee told Insir, "When we agreed to do the sequel, we agreed we were gog to not build [om] the outsi ...

While Elsa hasn't been emed gay, Frozen 2 didn't make her straight, eher.

'FROZEN 2' PLOT & TRAILER: FILM TO FEATURE LGBT ISSU, LEAD CHARACTER RUMORED TO BE GAY; WILL IT BE ELSA OR ANNA?

The parallels between Elsa's parents rejectg her powers and the backlash the gay muny fac when they e out to their fay is palpable. Disney may have dropped the ball Frozen 2, but is there a possibily of gay Elsa Frozen 3? Will Disney Make Elsa Gay In Frozen 3?

Given that Frozen 2 took around six years to plete, the social climate standg the way of a gay prcs may change between now and then.

The st and creative team have lent their support to fans who intify Elsa as a gay in. Elsa's newfound nfince and self-acceptance offer the perfect jumpg-off pot for a gay Elsa.

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

Wh the wrers tentatively on board, if Elsa shows them the rabow way, a gay Elsa plot would have to make s way past a lot of sks to e to un.

While Disney's effort for LGBTQ+ cln is mimally there, the pany has yet to take a step toward creatg a signifint gay role one of their major anchis. But given how long took between Frozen 1 and Frozen 2, maybe there's hope for a gay Elsa yet. The Febary sk lls out Disney for not givg Elsa a gay storyle  Frozen 2, and 's not subtle at all.