Contents:
- IS FROZEN 2 THE FIRST DISNEY MOVIE WH AN OPENLY GAY LEAD?
- IS ELSA GAY? WHY FROZEN 2 DON'T ADDRS THE TOPIC
- IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
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.
And would Elsa be revealed as a gay character?
IS ELSA GAY? WHY FROZEN 2 DON'T ADDRS THE TOPIC
The first film read as queer enough that homophobic bloggers acced Disney of doctratg children wh the gay agenda the wake of s release, and queer fans (myself clud, although I didn’t know at the time) latched onto Elsa as the potential first queer Disney prcs. ” But “Show Yourself” is arguably “Let It Go”’s spirual succsor: while the soundtrack’s lead sgle, “Into the Unknown, ” was created for the charts and awards shows, “Show Yourself” is Frozen 2’s gay anthem.
IT'S NOT JT FROZEN: MOST DISNEY MOVI ARE PRO-GAY
Asi om the surface-level “Elsa cis to follow a myster, pellg female voice” (which is already, uh, pretty gay), the unrlyg msage and risk volved mak Elsa’s story feel like a g-out arc om the get-go.
It’s all jt about as gay as pure subtext gets. Some subsectn of the fandom has wanted Elsa to be gay sce Frozen premiered 2013.
Joe Rso playg a gay member of Capta Ameri’s support group Avengers: Endgame do not unt. Neher do LeFou’s “exclively gay moment” 2017’s Bety and the Beast. Elsa’s gay character arc crystalliz “Show Yourself, ” which absolutely reads like the queer anthem fans want to be.