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Contents:
- 15 MOVI KNOWN FOR THEIR GAY NTEXT (AND IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW, NOW YOU DO)
- FILMS WH GAY SUBTEXT: A COMPILATN
15 MOVI KNOWN FOR THEIR GAY NTEXT (AND IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW, NOW YOU DO)
Disney, wh s famo reticence toward pictg openly gay characters almost certaly didn’t tend to produce an overtly gay narrative Mulan. As Sean Griff’s book Tker Bells and Evil Queens not, Disney has long targeted gay dienc — and partly bee queer dienc are experts at -optg ostensibly straight narrativ for themselv. “The ia that lbians and gay men uld be watchg Disney and g the texts (films, TV shows, theme parks, rerds, etc.
“Historil evince dit that lbians and gay men have read Disney artifacts om a non-heterosexual viewpot throughout the pany’s history... As long as evince showed that homosexual dienc were unrstandg Disney through a ‘gay sensibily, ’ then a relatnship existed whether Disney approved of or not. The one notable exceptn to this le is Bety and the Beast’s Gaston, a villa tentnally signed to be so manly that he be herently homoerotic.
FILMS WH GAY SUBTEXT: A COMPILATN
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