![]() Mulan may reject societal expectations and exercise her freedom to marry whomever she loves, but try to watch the effeminate young Pinocchio’s fretting over not knowing how to act like “a real boy” through the prism of queer anxiety. ![]() Gay panic, stereotypes, closeting, and equating homosexuality with perversion pervades these films just as much as any celebration of otherness or flamboyance. Fabulous villains, yes, but when there is less than a full spectrum of representation, that becomes a troublesome pattern. There are any number of queer-coded characters the LGBT community celebrates and dissects, yet those characters are almost always villains. ![]() Reports are that the series Love, Victor was shuffled from Disney+ to Hulu because the gay teen coming out story wasn’t considered “family friendly.” Blink-and-miss-it characters who are purportedly queer are laughably trumpeted by Disney and then maligned by fans for their minisculity. Disney is notorious for, as the decades have gone by, not evolving when it comes to inclusivity.
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