Gay Subtext Old Movi

Contents:

• OFFICIAL LIST OF GAY SUBTEXT FILM
• REBEL WHOUT A CSE'S GROUNDBREAKG GAY SUBTEXT EXPLAED
• 15 MOVI KNOWN FOR THEIR GAY NTEXT (AND IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW, NOW YOU DO)
• GAY SUBTEXT OLD MOVI

OFFICIAL LIST OF GAY SUBTEXT FILM

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. Villas regularly bee gay ins; Disney prc are equently reamed as gay men; and so many people have read Frozen’s Elsa as queer that the ph to give her a girliend has bee a proment media narrative around that anchise.

REBEL WHOUT A CSE'S GROUNDBREAKG GAY SUBTEXT EXPLAED

It’s probably not a cince that several of the films volved Howard Ashman, a gay mil lyricist who -wrote the sr to The Ltle Mermaid and Bety and the Beast and shaped the story ncept of Aladd before his ath 1991.

There are a few characters the Disney non, like Bety and the Beast’s Gaston, who are seen as homoerotic paragons. But perhaps the most heartbreakg gay readg of Bety and the Beast volv the story of the Beast himself. ” That isn’t unlike the prejudice felt by gay men like Ashman, who was alg wh AIDS plitns while wrg the lyrics for the songs of the origal animated movie.

15 MOVI KNOWN FOR THEIR GAY NTEXT (AND IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW, NOW YOU DO)

The Ln Kg’s Sr follows the shopworn trope of a gay-d villa: He preens, flips his hair, snters ways that his very stiff brother Mufasa don’t. On the one hand, Sr and many stereotypilly portrayed characters like him feel like the byproducts of lazy and unimagative wrg (oh, wow another limp-wristed, gay-ish villa! Sce gay people haven’t ever been allowed to be the hero of Disney movi, no one n really blame for takg our cmbs and appreciatg the bombastic, opposnal, unapologetilly queer villas like Sr.

The Ln Kg has a uple of ls-villao queer-d characters Pumba and Timon, Simba’s two nihilistic, adoptive gay dads.

Frollo’s sexual hypocrisy and ragg hatred of Esmeralda, the object of his sir, mak him the perfect allegory for morn-day homophob. It prompts Disney’s bt “I Want” song, which is also one of the gayt songs ever wrten, “Out There. If only for this reason, Maleficent is one of the gayt Disney films around.

GAY SUBTEXT OLD MOVI

And jt like all nversn therapy, fails, and Maleficent emerg om the moment of trma stronger, angrier, smarter, and ready to be gay, do crim.

The on near the top are personal favor of meI already have my honorary gay movi list but I ma that before I really got ser about gay subtext so I mixed them together wh movi that I claimed to be gay culture jt by nature of the them athetic I cid to make a dited list of actual gay subtext (characters/relatnships) sce people kept askg me for recsFeel ee to leave recs but I want to keep this as solely my own list of movi that have my stamp of approval sce I n only tst myself wh the thgs. Rebel Whout A Cse boasted some pecially groundbreakg them for the era which was ma, and here’s the movie’s gay subtext explaed. Rebel Whout A Cse is remembered as the movie that ma Jam Dean an in, but also boasted some groundbreakg them for s time – here’s the classic film’s gay subtext explaed.

In that ls tolerant era, this meant pictns of homosexualy film was a no-no. In a groundbreakg move for the mid-1950s, Ray serted several clu Rebel Whout A Cse that Plato as gay.