Is this is the first Disney film to reprent a gay Disney Prcs? Well, voice actrs behd Raya, Kelly Marie Tran, says y.
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- RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON’S KELLY MARIE TRAN THKS HER DISNEY PRCS IS GAY
- RAYA LAST DRAGON KELLY MARIE TRAN GAY LGBTQ REPRENTATN DISNEY PRCS FROZEN MOANA TLE ROLE
- RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON'S KELLY MARIE TRAN SAYS SHE PLAYED RAYA AS A GAY PRCS
- KELLY MARIE TRAN SAYS HER DISNEY PRCS, RAYA, IS GAY - INSI THE MAGIC
RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON’S KELLY MARIE TRAN THKS HER DISNEY PRCS IS GAY
As for Marvel, Chloe Zhao's Eternals will feature the most diverse st the stud's history, cludg a Black gay superhero, as well as the first hearg impaired and the Last Dragon is currently available on Disney+ for premiere accs, as well as theaters.
But for the pany that started toutg s “exclively gay moments” a few years back, and whose characters have long been embraced by queer muni, Raya has felt for many like one step closer to the was eager to add that jt bee she terpreted the Namaari and Raya relatnship as somethg more than platonic, that wasn’t the official Disney le.
” Disney films have been tiptoeg around the perimeter of queer reprentatn for some time now whether be the “exclively gay” lisend of Bety and the Beast, a fleetg, sapphic background kiss The Rise of Skywalker, Thor: Ragnarok’s allegedly bisexual Valkyrie, Onward’s brief mentn of a female p’s girliend, or Elsa’s totally platonic iend Honeymaren Frozen II.
RAYA LAST DRAGON KELLY MARIE TRAN GAY LGBTQ REPRENTATN DISNEY PRCS FROZEN MOANA TLE ROLE
“There always had to be plsible niabily, wh the exceptn maybe of Bow’s two dads, bee other shows had been cludg gay parents. Terrace didn’t exactly get the green light that easily at Disney: “I was sat down a nference room and told that I uld not, by any means, have any kd of gay storyle among the ma characters.
RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON'S KELLY MARIE TRAN SAYS SHE PLAYED RAYA AS A GAY PRCS
The latter is a term that dit a more cynil approach to teasg gay-iendly material orr to appear progrsive or queer-iendly whout, as Sugar puts , “alienatg their heteronormative dience or riskg ternatnal prof margs. In an terview, Tran hted that the film had an unrtone of a gay relatnship between the two lead characters Raya and Namaari.
It n be seen as a splay of Korra, om Nickeloon’s TV seri The Legend of Korra, which also featured a gay relatnship.
Creators have had to famoly fight works for the opportuni to reprent gay relatnships. In the animated world, 'Adventure Time', 'Steven Universe', and Netflix's 'She-Ra and the Prcs of Power' all beme the first to openly reprent gay relatnships after great stggl.
KELLY MARIE TRAN SAYS HER DISNEY PRCS, RAYA, IS GAY - INSI THE MAGIC
The pany is yet to troduce an openly gay character, but has been willg to experiment wh reprentatn the background.
The first openly gay character for the Moe Hoe uld e om Marvel's Valkyrie. In 2019, Marvel head Kev Feige nfirmed that the character's gay relatnship would be explored the upg 'Thor: Love and Thunr'. That sentiment was echoed by another, who said "u nt tell me, raya and namaari didn’t have any gay tensn like phew"ADVERTISEMENT.
"Raya and the Last Dragon is both gay and amazg, I will take no further qutns thank you" another said. There were so many tim we uld’ve gotten a gay moment wh Raya and Namaari....