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Contents:

• DISNEY ANNOUNC 'PRC,' FIRST FILM WH OPENLY GAY CHARACTERS.
• 17 GAY AND LGBTQ DISNEY CHARACTERS – OM D TO NON TO TASTROPHE
• QUEER ILLTRATOR REIMAG DISNEY PRC AS GAYS UNR LOCKDOWN AND THE THIRST IS OH SO REAL
• DISNEY'S ACTUAL 'FIRST GAY CHARACTER' HAS BEEN FOTTEN ABOUT
• KELLY MARIE TRAN SAYS HER DISNEY PRCS, RAYA, IS GAY - INSI THE MAGIC
• EVERYONE SEEMS TO HAVE FOTTEN A SURPRISG GAY MOMENT OM DISNEY’S THE PRCS DIARI 2
• ARTIST US GAY DISNEY PRC AS NSFW REMR THAT YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE HETERO TO BE HAPPY
• RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON’S KELLY MARIE TRAN THKS HER DISNEY PRCS IS GAY
• BRS ARE BACKG A GAY DISNEY PRCS SO HERE'S WHY IT'S GOTTA HAPPEN ASAP
• HOW MANY TIM IS DISNEY GOG TO INTRODUCE ITS ‘FIRST’ GAY CHARACTER?
• DISNEY PRCS PROMOT "GAY RIGHTS" AT DISNEYLAND, GUTS DELIGHTED - INSI THE MAGIC

DISNEY ANNOUNC 'PRC,' FIRST FILM WH OPENLY GAY CHARACTERS.

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17 GAY AND LGBTQ DISNEY CHARACTERS – OM D TO NON TO TASTROPHE

Updated on June 7th, 2022 by Danielle Bnti: In the wake of Florida's extremely ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill and the strong cricism that me om wh The Walt Disney Company for not speakg up, seems like Disney is fally unrstandg out important LGBTQ+ reprentatn is for s fans and s st members. While the word "gay" never is spoken  Better Nate Than Ever, the notn that Nate is gay is hted at relentlsly. Artie Cella is an openly gay character who teracts wh the ma character throughout the new movie that foc on Cella Vil om 101 Dalmatians.

Artie is able to be his thentic self and actor John McCrea is happy wh his portrayal of Artie and believ him to be a gay character, but Disney yet aga ma the mistake of not fully lvg to Artie beg an openly gay character. Orka and Flix Star Wars Ristance are two openly gay characters who aren't human and are actually two different speci but are openly a relatnship the seri.

Jungle Cise hasn't technilly been released yet, but Disney has been clear that one of the major characters the movie, McGregor Houghton, will be gay. Certa groups are upset at the ia of a children's movie reprentg the LGBTQ+ muny while progrsiv are upset at Jack Whehall's stg, believg a gay actor should be st, and the ia that might be a stereotypil, harmful reprentatn.

QUEER ILLTRATOR REIMAG DISNEY PRC AS GAYS UNR LOCKDOWN AND THE THIRST IS OH SO REAL

Viewers may not remember the gay prce om The Prcs Diari 2, and maybe that's bee the movie don't actually show him person. Before the live-actn versn of Bety and the Beast me out 2017, director Bill Condon announced an terview that one character would have a gay sp.

LeFou, Gaston's right-hand man, would be gay, the director said, g excement and anticipatn om the LGBTQ+ muny. Cys Goodman om Andi Mack was Disney's first character to ever utter the words, "I'm gay, " 2019.

DISNEY'S ACTUAL 'FIRST GAY CHARACTER' HAS BEEN FOTTEN ABOUT

The show's creator and executive producer Terri Msky said that Cys and his story were largely spired by Terri's dghter's iends, who knew that they were gay middle school. Pixar jt released a new short, aptly tled Out, that foc on a young man named Greg who has a secret: he's gay, and he has a boyiend named Manuel.

As one cric said at the time of “closeted gay fashnista” Ken: “Pairg homophobia wh misogyny, the jok about Ken suggt that the worst thgs a boy n be are eher a girl or a homosexual.

Disney faced more flak 2018 when Jack Whehall, a straight man, was revealed as playg the “hugely effete, very mp” gay man McGregor Jungle Cise. But when the gay actor playg Artie (John McCrea) took ownership of the character (tellg Attu an terview “to me ’s official: he’s queer“) the cricism didn’t really stick.

KELLY MARIE TRAN SAYS HER DISNEY PRCS, RAYA, IS GAY - INSI THE MAGIC

There was bate around Disney+ relegatg the gay-centric TV versn of h film Love, Simon to s adult-foced ‘Star’ sectn. It’s logil to assume the character is queer-d, for the film rri the DNA of the late lyricist Howard Ashman, who was gay, and whose magil songs, cludg A Whole New World, were creded wh reversg Disney’s wang fortun the 80s/90s. Bety and the Beast director Bill Condon nfirmed Disney’s first “exclively gay moment” a 2017 Attu terview, generatg global headl.

EVERYONE SEEMS TO HAVE FOTTEN A SURPRISG GAY MOMENT OM DISNEY’S THE PRCS DIARI 2

Still, the film brgs reprentatn other ways, om out gay actor Le Evans’ stg as Gaston to Sir Ian McKellen as a Vic-que Cogsworth. The film’s gay subtext is siarly disguised – but Disney and Pixar arguably break through the ference lookg glass wh Lu. When lockdown go queer: illtrator reimag Disney prc and Tarzan as buff gay men, while Toy Story gets the Tiger Kg treatment.

A queer illtrator has reimaged the Disney prc as gays unr lockdown, and they’re dog exactly what we’re dog, jt wh fewer cloth. Hercul and Kg Tron, who has some add nipple rgs, have done the same as every gay the land unr lockdown – cut their hair.

ARTIST US GAY DISNEY PRC AS NSFW REMR THAT YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE HETERO TO BE HAPPY

It wasn't Cella, Onward or The Rise of Skywalker; Disney's actual first gay character was The Prcs Diari 2: Royal Engagement. At this pot, headl clarg a Disney movie ntas the stud's "first gay character" of one kd or another have bee credibly predictable.

In as much as Artie n make any real "first" claim, 's bee he at least has more scen than Spectre Onward, who at least had a name unlike the gay guy Avengers: Endgame, whose inty was at least ls ambiguo than Lefou's the 2017 Bety and the Beast, and so on and so forth the list of Disney's bare-mimum "firsts. Amidst this cycle of unrwhelmg rporate hype, seems as if people have fotten who Disney's actual "first gay character" was, assumg they were even aware he existed the first place. Don't go to The Prcs Diari 2 expectg some sort of masterpiece of reprentatn or queer cema; the gay ntent is as mimal as that most of the films ught the "Disney's first gay character" hype cycle.

RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON’S KELLY MARIE TRAN THKS HER DISNEY PRCS IS GAY

Unls you unt a lbian uple appearg the background of Toy Story 4, this might be the only direct reference to beg gay a G-rated movie ever, which is all the more imprsive given the MPAA's reputatn for ratg gay ntent more harshly than equivalent straight ntent. Mia's reactn is also a stronger gay rights statement than most of Disney's other "exclively gay moments" movi (Disney's TV seri and streamg programs have notably been a lot more LGBTQ-iendly than s movi have been).

It's a strange ltle footnote Disney history, but 's worth rememberg whenever you read the headl about Disney's next "first gay character. Few Disney characters are explicly clared to be gay by the stud, but viewers have picked up on "gay dg.

Few Disney characters are explicly clared to be gay by the stud or s filmmakers, but viewers have picked up on "gay dg, " characters exhibg tras rrpondg wh LGBTQ. Aud Bool on the blog Prezi scrib the term: "Cod gay is when a gay stereotype, 'gay behavrs' or 'mp' are ed to imply that a character is homosexual while never explicly statg that they are.

BRS ARE BACKG A GAY DISNEY PRCS SO HERE'S WHY IT'S GOTTA HAPPEN ASAP

In other s, viewers have cricized the stud for dg s villas as beg gay, nflatg gayns wh evil or gog so over the top as to be sultgly stereotypil, pigeon-holg an entire muny. Here, CBR looks at 15 characters Disney and Pixar movi who are nfirmed as gay, or are believed to be by the fan muny.

HOW MANY TIM IS DISNEY GOG TO INTRODUCE ITS ‘FIRST’ GAY CHARACTER?

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Governor Ratcliffe om Pohontas (1995) is also tagged as a d gay villa Monique Jon' "Jt Add Color" blog.

In an article about the upg Ln Kg live-actn remake, Jezebel refers to Timon and Pumbaa as gay lovers and "their fiercely lovg and judgment-ee romance, " marked by the song "Hakuna Matata.

DISNEY PRCS PROMOT "GAY RIGHTS" AT DISNEYLAND, GUTS DELIGHTED - INSI THE MAGIC

Lane said, "Now that gay rights have e so far, this versn Timon n fally marry Pumbaa and live openly the Serengeti. But for the 2017 live-actn remake, LeFou was nceived as exprsly gay and played that way by actor Josh Gad. Clearg up any doubt about their relatnship, Zootopia -director Jared Bh tweeted, "They are a gay married uple.

The hoopla over the "exclively gay moment" the live-actn versn of Bety and the Beast (2017) -- LeFou dancg wh a man while sgg Gaston's prais -- spurred several piec potg out there was another gay uple the film. That Ken, "is picted as a closeted gay fashnista, wh a fondns for wrhg sparkly purple k wh curly-Q flourish. Pairg homophobia wh misogyny, the jok about Ken suggt that the worst thgs a boy n be are eher a girl or a homosexual.

In the magaze Ltle Whe Li, Henry Bevan wr, "If Jam Woods' Has wasn't by takg over the world, he'd be the gay bt iend a romantic edy. The lead animator on Jafar was Andreas Deja, who is openly gay, and has worked on Hercul, Lilo and Stch, Gaston Bety and the Beast and Sr The Ln Kg.