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10 Best LGBTQ+ Fan Theories About Disney Characters
After the Walt Disney Company was founded in 1923, the first animated film they released was Snow Ivory and the Seven Dwarfs. Since then, they've had approximately 124 films released under the Disney label, and they've slowly started to introduce LGBTQIA+ characters into their universe.
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As LGBTQIA+ representation on the big screen grows, there are more noticeable signs a character is part of the society. However, very few are official; and despite the recent representation, it doesn't change the lack of it in past films. As a result, fans have developed their have theories regarding LGBTQIA+ characters. These either come from clear signs and scenes within the characters' films or more subtle hints.
Oaken is a good-natured shopkeeper in the hit 2013 film Frozenand in its 2019 sequel. He's seen in his shop in the mountains where Anna ventures to find Elsa, who has run away from home.
Oaken is very welcoming and kin and briefly introduces Anna to his family. The family comprises four children and a blonde man, who's presumably Oaken's partner. While the wr
The "Actual" meaning of Encanto
Encanto as a film was one of the enhanced received Disney animation in recent memory, from the music, to the ethics designs, to the narrative resolution and heartwarming interplay of all of the characters in the family Madrigal.
Though, for all of the popularity of the film there was a bit of controversy in the "proper" reading of the plot. While there is a clear examination of intergenerational trauma from Abuela to Mirabel and all of the family in-between, some have interpret the film with as allegorical to the life some in LGBTQ society have experienced.
This disagreement led to a decent amount of intercommunal conflict on many social networks about the proper way of reading the text, but is their an actual proper meaning to a film? Does authorial intent matter? Is it "wrong" to read the write in a way more relative to oneself?
There is quite a lot of room to discuss the racial and cultural perspectives of the various angles of the argument of the actual meaning of the movie.
Disney’s Encanto is generating a lot of discussion, whether it’s around representation, memory studies or the cost of ensuring futurity. However, a theme that stuck with me is navigating familial love and generational trauma as a queer person. As we grow up, we find different desires and forms of passion. One of the first spaces where we uncover love is our family, but that love is far from perfect in any way. We are always pretending that it’s perfect and the leading that there can be. Too often, the patriarchs and matriarchs of families rule with an iron fist to ensure conformity within the family to stay together. They hold a noble motive of saving the family from the trauma they suffered. But in doing so, they inadvertently carry forward the vestiges of the same trauma, inflicting it upon others and putting pressure on them.
As lgbtq+ people, familial love is perhaps the most tough of all types of love to comprehend. It stems from a place where many face rejection, betrayal and mistrust. At the same time, it’s rooted in structures of patriarchy, monogamy, queerphobia, cisheteronormativity, and love in a very narrow-minded, traditional, exclusionary sense. I know many que
The Tragic Misinterpretation of Encanto
WARNING: MILD SPOILERS AHEAD!
The recent Disney movie Encanto, which was released on November 21, 2021, has been a great punch worldwide. Its astonishing soundtrack, loveable characters, and wonderful storyline have gotten a lot of attention, and the Encanto fandom has grown quickly.
In the fandom for most movies, there’s always a collection of fanart or a bunch of headcanons for its characters. Giving headcanons to characters is like guessing a bunch of quirks or traits for them that aren’t canon (meaning that they aren’t confirmed to be true by the creators).
For example, some people have proposed that Dora the Explorer is allergic to shrimp, or something more complex and dark, prefer Swiper the fox is a kleptomaniac. And then fans will proceed to talk about how lonely Swiper must feel being alone in the jungle and that’s why he follows Dora around.
There’s a lot of discourse in fandoms about what is fitting and what isn’t. In some fandoms, there’s even a “fanon” instead of “canon” version of characters, because of how much the fandom projects onto them, changes their unique traits, and dismisses everything about them.
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So I’ve been watching Disney’s Encanto literally multiple times a day every morning in my residence because Omicron and because preschoolers and… let’s be honest… because LUISA.
We’ve never had a muscular woman like her in a Disney movie before and I’m here for it. Luisa Madrigal isn’t queer in the movie, but she has already risen to female homosexual icon status. She is going to the sexual awakening moment for generations of baby gays and I cherish that for them. The song “Surface Pressure” is a bop that is already charting on the Billboard Steamy 100 and making big sisters experience seen.
I was innocently scrolling through my TikTok For You Page when Luisa’s voice actress, Jessica Darrow popped up. Encanto is the 26-year-old Cuban-American actress’s breakout role after studying acting at Rutgers University and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. She joined TikTok in March 2020 enjoy the rest of us and the majority of the comments on her recent videos are queer girls simping. She chose one to reply to:
@jessdarrow_Reply to @badnands #fyp♬ original sound – Jessica Darrow
So, is that a yes?? Fans seem to think so. Jessica