'How to Tra Your Dragon' Character Com Out as Gay, Director Confirms - TheWrap

Contents:

• HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON 3 CONFIRMS [SPOILER] IS GAY, AND IT'S GREAT
• HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON: AN AD-LIB MA GOBBER A RARE GAY ANIMATED HERO
• 'HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON 2': IS GOBBER REALLY GAY?— SPOILERS
• SO, HOW GAY IS HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON?
• SO, HOW GAY IS ‘HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON 2’?
• CHARACTER 'HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON 2' OUT AS GAY
• ‘HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON’ CHARACTER COM OUT AS GAY, DIRECTOR CONFIRMS
• 'HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON 2': IS GOBBER REALLY GAY?— SPOILERS
• SO, HOW GAY IS HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON?
• CHARACTER 'HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON 2' OUT AS GAY

HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON 3 CONFIRMS [SPOILER] IS GAY, AND IT'S GREAT

How to Tra Your Dragon 3 Confirms [SPOILER] Is Gay, and It's Great.

How to Tra Your Dragon: The Hidn World fearlsly nfirms a major character is gay. One way the anchise's creators add dimensns to Gobber was to subtly imply that he was gay prev films. The openly gay DeBlois told outlets at the time that the reason he kept the improvised le the film was bee, "I thk 's nice.

The only other character who filled the mentor archetype and was openly gay was Dumbledore om the Harry Potter seri, but that wasn't ma clear until the after the seri had nclud. By ntrast, Gobber beg gay is troduced right smack dab the middle of the seri. Gay characters animatn are still a rary, even the morn day.

HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON: AN AD-LIB MA GOBBER A RARE GAY ANIMATED HERO

He's a great mentor figure for the film seri and a great example of a gay character. As the cultural landspe chang and grows, 's important that characters om the broad spectm of humany be reprented, and, by makg Gobber quietly but nfintly gay, the How to Tra Your Dragon anchise manag to actually stand out among other fantasy anchis.

'HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON 2': IS GOBBER REALLY GAY?— SPOILERS

How To Tra Your Dragon: An Ad-Lib Ma Gobber A Rare Gay Animated Hero. How To Tra Your Dragon’s Gobber wasn’t imaged as a gay character but thanks to Craig Fergon’s improvisatn he beme an animated gay champn.

The ad-lib ronated wh trilogy director Dean DeBlois, who is openly gay and cid to keep the le. Havg a gay character the How To Tra Your Dragon trilogy was a progrsive move for a fay-oriented animatn, which typilly aren’t very LGBTQ clive.

SO, HOW GAY IS HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON?

In fact, Gobber is one of the few openly gay characters a mastream animated film alongsi Casey Affleck’s Mch 2012’s ParaNorman. The tis are changg, however; Disney’s Zootopia featured the subtle cln of a married gay uple (antelop Bucky and Pronk Oryx-Antlerson) and Netflix animated seri She-Ra And The Prcs Of Power featur several LGBTQ characters.

Hopefully, Goober How To Tra Your Dragon and other openly gay characters like him is a sign of thgs to e. Next: Why Disney's First Gay Character Matters.

Or… is Gobber gay?

SO, HOW GAY IS ‘HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON 2’?

Bee I'm a gay man, and I don't draw attentn to myself for that reason. " Gobber isn't the first gay character a mastream animated movie; Mch (Casey Affleck) was a gay dumb jock 2012's ParaNorman. Gobber is gay.

There are a few different ways to read this unfished statement, but perhaps the most tertg way to do so is that Gobber was about to adm to beg gay. Apparently, the le was ad-libbed by Fergon the booth, and DeBelois, himself a gay man, cid to keep , sce was an opportuny for a b of queer reprentatn a mastream film.

First, the ia that Gobber is gay is a new addn to his character, not somethg the filmmakers tend om the start. “Comg out” impli revealg a prevly secret realy; if the filmmakers have now cid that Gobber is gay, that’s a newly vented fact about him, not a prevly secret one. “I thk that's a really fun [and] darg move to put , ” wrer–director Dean DuBlois (who is gay) told E!

CHARACTER 'HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON 2' OUT AS GAY

“I love the ia that Gobber is Berk's rint gay. Is there any evince that Gobber’s gayns go beyond this one le? As gay nuendo go, “one other reason” is a lot ls overt than some of the humor DreamWorks’ Madagasr 2: Espe 2 Ai or Happy Feet Two, say.

(It’s startg to look like a sequel thg, although there was gay humor the origal Happy Feet too. To say that I got a lot of flak for my “So, How Gay IS Disney’s Frozen?

Ironilly, my observatns were wily shared by many other crics and observers, cludg many who embraced Frozen’s gayns. (As Adams accurately characterized me his IndieWire piece, my answer to my own qutn “How gay is Frozen? As I noted my post, any gay them Frozen are “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.

‘HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON’ CHARACTER COM OUT AS GAY, DIRECTOR CONFIRMS

I n unrstand parents and others who have embraced Frozen, Happy Feet and other animated films takg umbrage at arguments about gay them the films. To the pure all thgs are pure, and I have no wish to thwart those who n and want to enjoy the movi whout beg troubled by qutns of gay them.

“How to Tra Your Dragon’s Gobber the Belch Com Out As Gay, ” headl screamed the weeks prr to the release of DreamWorks’ animated sequel How to Tra Your Dragon 2. “I thk that's a really fun [and] darg move to put , ” wrer–director Dean DuBlois (who is gay) told E! CANNES – Is the world ready for s first animated gay Vikg?

” Fergon tagged on ‘That, and one other reason, ” seemgly a reference to gay marriage, which has only recently bee legal several stat. In the upg animated sequel to “How to Tra Your Dragon, ” the gged vikg character Gobber is g out as gay. I love the ia that Gobber is Berk’s rint gay.

'HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON 2': IS GOBBER REALLY GAY?— SPOILERS

Also read: Fox News Host Awkwardly Backtracks After Callg Gee Clooney Gay (Vio). Gobber is also nonilly gay – another piece of subtle clivy other kids’ films uld learn ’s hard to thk of another character an animated movie wh a siar disabily that don’t impact them or alter our perceptn of them.

SO, HOW GAY IS HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON?

CHARACTER 'HOW TO TRA YOUR DRAGON 2' OUT AS GAY