The upg adventure film will reportedly feature a gay teen romance — the first an animated feature produced by Disney.
Contents:
- DISNEY FILM FEATURG GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE
- ‘STRANGE WORLD’ IS DISNEY’S FIRST ANIMATED MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD. WHY IS IT BEG BURIED?
- DISNEY ANIMATED FILM FEATURG FIRST OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE
- DISNEY'S FIRST FILM FEATURG OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER FLOPS AT BOX OFFICE
- DISNEY DROPS NEW ‘STRANGE WORLD’ TRAILER AS BEN SHAPIRO SLAMS STUD’S SO-LLED ‘GAY AGENDA’
DISNEY FILM FEATURG GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE
Updated on June 7th, 2022 by Danielle Bnti: In the wake of Florida's extremely ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill and the strong cricism that me om wh The Walt Disney Company for not speakg up, seems like Disney is fally unrstandg out important LGBTQ+ reprentatn is for s fans and s st members. While the word "gay" never is spoken Better Nate Than Ever, the notn that Nate is gay is hted at relentlsly.
Phastos is a geni and ventor turned superhero who also happens to be openly gay. Artie Cella is an openly gay character who teracts wh the ma character throughout the new movie that foc on Cella Vil om 101 Dalmatians.
Artie is able to be his thentic self and actor John McCrea is happy wh his portrayal of Artie and believ him to be a gay character, but Disney yet aga ma the mistake of not fully lvg to Artie beg an openly gay character.
‘STRANGE WORLD’ IS DISNEY’S FIRST ANIMATED MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD. WHY IS IT BEG BURIED?
Orka and Flix Star Wars Ristance are two openly gay characters who aren't human and are actually two different speci but are openly a relatnship the seri. Jungle Cise hasn't technilly been released yet, but Disney has been clear that one of the major characters the movie, McGregor Houghton, will be gay. There's been a lot of ntroversy surroundg the announcement of Houghton beg a gay character.
Certa groups are upset at the ia of a children's movie reprentg the LGBTQ+ muny while progrsiv are upset at Jack Whehall's stg, believg a gay actor should be st, and the ia that might be a stereotypil, harmful reprentatn. Viewers may not remember the gay prce om The Prcs Diari 2, and maybe that's bee the movie don't actually show him person. In early 2017, Disney XD progrsed even more wh portrayals of gay love wh the rtoon Star Vs.
DISNEY ANIMATED FILM FEATURG FIRST OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE
Before the live-actn versn of Bety and the Beast me out 2017, director Bill Condon announced an terview that one character would have a gay sp. LeFou, Gaston's right-hand man, would be gay, the director said, g excement and anticipatn om the LGBTQ+ muny. Cys Goodman om Andi Mack was Disney's first character to ever utter the words, "I'm gay, " 2019.
The show's creator and executive producer Terri Msky said that Cys and his story were largely spired by Terri's dghter's iends, who knew that they were gay middle school. Pixar jt released a new short, aptly tled Out, that foc on a young man named Greg who has a secret: he's gay, and he has a boyiend named Manuel. 6 ln over the five-day holiday weekend spe beg herald as the first Disney movie to clu an openly gay ma character.
However, those figur were rapidly, and signifintly, revised downwards when was unrstood how poorly the movie was performg wh wh other recent Disney animated movi cludg Lightyear (another disappotg box office flop), Strange World sought to crowbar progrsive to the film, cludg for the first time Disney’s history an openly gay ma character. However, one liberal movie reviewer said Disney would likely e homophobia to shield om the film’s obv shortgs.
DISNEY'S FIRST FILM FEATURG OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER FLOPS AT BOX OFFICE
“Disney is 100% gog to blame STRANGE WORLD’s evable bad box office on the fact that there’s an openly gay character the movie when realy, ’s gog to flop bee they didn’t market at all. The dispirg explanatn uld be that Disney, fearg uproar om all matters of the right, has chewed any big promo s more homogeno films receive.
Strange World was never sted to be a hot button issue wh anti-gay, racist, fossil fuel-lovg punds. Strange World was billed as the first Disney movie to clu an openly gay ma character.
As wh other recent Disney animated movi cludg Lightyear (another disappotg box office flop), Strange World sought to crowbar progrsive to the film, cludg for the first time Disney’s history an openly gay ma character. Disney is 100% gog to blame STRANGE WORLD's evable bad box office on the fact that there's an openly gay character the movie when realy, 's gog to flop bee they didn't market at all.
DISNEY DROPS NEW ‘STRANGE WORLD’ TRAILER AS BEN SHAPIRO SLAMS STUD’S SO-LLED ‘GAY AGENDA’
This, more than the ma character, who is gay, probably ntributed to the bad openg. But the gay character fely played a role. Beyond that, Disney opted to not subm “Strange World” to several smaller markets, cludg the entire Middle East, Malaysia and Indonia, bee the movie featur a gay character.
Conservative mentator Ben Shapiro took to Twter Tuday morng to tell his nearly 5 ln followers that the film is another example of Disney’s ongog missn to “target” children by featurg LGBTQ characters — jt like the stud did wh the “Toy Story” sp-off, “Lightyear, ” earlier this Disney begs phg "Strange World" for next week's release, here's the remr that their "not-at-all-secret gay agenda" to target kids is ongog. “As Disney begs phg ‘Strange World’ for next week’s release, here’s the remr that their ‘not-at-all-secret gay agenda’ to target kids is ongog, ” Shapiro wrote on Twter, sharg a Daily News story om June about the film, which will feature a gay teen romance — the first an animated feature produced by Walt Disney Animatn a sequence of the film screened by the stud at the 2022 Annecy Internatnal Animatn Film Ftival France, Ethan (voiced by Young-Whe, who’s openly gay) appears shy ont of his csh, a boy named Diazo.
23, featur a character who has been scribed as the first gay lead of a Disney animated movie. Searcher's own son is Ethan Cla (Jaboie Young-Whe), who is clearly tablished as gay. Pixar's 2020 short film Out revolved around a gay man as s ma character, a big step for the stud, though was released on Disney+ and not shown ont of a feature film like other Pixar shorts often Disney's non-Pixar animated movie Zootopia om 2016, the ma character liv next door to a gay married antelope uple, but this isn't at all clear the movie self.