Who Is Disney's Real 'First Gay Character?' It's Complited

Contents:

• DISNEY'S 8 'FIRST OPENLY GAY' CHARACTERS, RANKED (BY HOW EMBARRASSED DISNEY SHOULD FEEL)
• HOW MANY TIM IS DISNEY GOG TO INTRODUCE ITS ‘FIRST’ GAY CHARACTER?
• EVERY SGLE “FIRST GAY CHARACTER” IN A DISNEY FILM
• THE 8 FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTERS OF DISNEY
• POP QUIZ: WHO IS DISNEY'S REAL 'FIRST GAY CHARACTER?' IT'S COMPLITED
• LIST: 'STRANGE WORLD' REVIEWS ABOUT DISNEY'S FIRST OUT GAY, CHARACTER, BIRACIAL QUEER TEEN
• CONGRATULATNS TO DISNEY’S 7TH FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER

DISNEY'S 8 'FIRST OPENLY GAY' CHARACTERS, RANKED (BY HOW EMBARRASSED DISNEY SHOULD FEEL)

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That and the fact took three trailers for him to get a le of dialogue, but Whehall’s McGregor at least gettg a scene that humanized his relatnship wh his sister bee of the fact she didn’t abandon him for beg queer like the rt of his fay—even if the scene did dance around sayg the word “gay”—was actually pretty solid, if fleetg. It really do jt feel like yterday when we were promised the live-actn Bety and the Beast’s “exclively gay moment, ” only to be given Josh Gad dancg wh another man a ty agment of the film’s climactic dance sequence. Ever sce John Boyega and Osr Isaac’s Fn and Poe swapped jackets and lip-b their way to the galaxy far, far away’s hottt ship this si of the In T-65 X-Wg, Star Wars fans have wanted to see some gays space.

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

Alas, after the Brothers Rso patted themselv on the back Endgame’s pre-release prs tours that they had brought the first on-screen explicly gay character to the MCU—after some fumbl along the way—we got... Pixar featured a gay ma character a short film on Disney Pl, but Luz is the first bisexual character to make a Disney but on a televisn seri. “I was told by certa Disney learship that I uld not reprent any form of bi or gay relatnship on the channel.

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EVERY SGLE “FIRST GAY CHARACTER” IN A DISNEY FILM

While the Walt Disney Animatn Studs have clud an LGBTQ+ character wh a productn around 17 tim, many are relegated to the “first gay character” a Disney film.

RELATED: Bob Iger on ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Controversy; “We Change the World for the Good, and That Mt Contue”. Here’s a roundup of every “first gay Disney character:”.

THE 8 FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTERS OF DISNEY

Allegedly, Judy Hopps two “noisy” antelope neighbors Zootopia (2016) prise Pixar’s first gay married uple, although the pair are never seen together a romantic sense. Supposedly, the closeted brother of Jungle Cise’s (2021) female lead was “Disney’s first major gay character, ” spe LeFou’s but 2017.

MacGregor discs his fay’s rejectn after he ref to marry bee his “terts happily lie elsewhere, ” and dienc are jt meant to unrstand that means he’s gay.

Once aga, many claimed Artie as “Disney’s first major gay character” at the expense of MacGregor and LeFou. His major ntributn to Cella’s orig story the 2021 live-actn seems to be fulfillg a “sassy gay bt iend” stereotype and beg morally ambiguo at bt.

POP QUIZ: WHO IS DISNEY'S REAL 'FIRST GAY CHARACTER?' IT'S COMPLITED

Of urse, we n’t fet the honorable mentns om Marvel Studs and Star Wars, cludg Valkyrie, Phastos, Larma D’Acy and Wrobie Tyce (whose spl-send kiss spawned the “Live Slug Reactn” meme), and the famo Gay Joe Rso Avengers Endgame (2019), a man who talks for a few sends about his boyiend one scene. We n only hope as time go on, Disney will allow more qualy gay characters to grace the big screen for the first time.

LIST: 'STRANGE WORLD' REVIEWS ABOUT DISNEY'S FIRST OUT GAY, CHARACTER, BIRACIAL QUEER TEEN

Year after year, Disney proclaims the new cultural ton by issug statements of how proud they are to have their first openly gay character. Each time is the first time a Disney character is gay… and openly! Here are jt eight of the first openly gay characters om Disney.

Director Bill Condon scribed LeFou as someone “who wants to be Gaston and… wants to kiss Gaston, ” a nfed sikick who gets a payoff the form of “a nice, exclively gay moment. In the n-up to the ncln of the Marvel Cematic Universe’s long-nng ‘Infy Saga, ’ a report om Deadle Hollywood clared this film as one that “breaks ground on a cultural level, ” by troducg the first openly gay character a Marvel movie.

It’s almost an entire mute of unterpted dialogue, and really giv gay people a face, but not a name, amidst a pantheon of heterosexual superhumans. As an all-ag anchise patterned after classic movie serials and wholome faerie tal, the Star Wars galaxy is not known for romantic excement, least of all gay characters. They’re the first openly gay Star Wars characters!

CONGRATULATNS TO DISNEY’S 7TH FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER

You’d thk Disney would have wanted everyone to know about the first openly gay Pixar character. One of many attempts by Disney to adapt one of s amement park ris to a movie, Jungle Cise featur Brish edian Jack Whehall as an openly gay character who mak mentn of his distert marriage to a woman bee his “terts happily lie elsewhere. ” That’s the last we hear of Whehall’s romantic terts, makg him the first openly gay character a theme park feature.

Among them are Phastos, the first openly gay superhero the MCU, and one wh an actual hband and son. That’s right — Marvel’s first gay hero is directly rponsible for war crim agast the Japane. In , Jaboie Young-Whe plays Ethan and is the first openly gay Walt Disney Animatn character.