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It's Not Just Frozen: Most Disney Movies Are Pro-Gay
The Atlantic ^ | APR 23 2014 | AKASH NIKOLAS

Posted on 04/23/2014 9:44:15 AM PDT by nickcarraway

The culture warriors have decided: Disney’s Frozen is queer. Elsa hiding her ice-powers could be read as a metaphor for the closet, the Oscar-winning “Let it Go” plays like a coming-out anthem, and a character in the film evokes the question of whether homosexuality is a choice by inquiring of Elsa’s powers, “born with it or cursed?” Some liberals have praised the film for its subtext; some conservatives have denounced it.

More on Frozen

Frozen: Too Cynical? In Defense of Prince Charming How Parents Can Turn Frozen's Big Twist Into a Teachable Moment But the most remarkable thing about queer readings of the film may be how unremarkable they really are. Through both its corporate practices and the content of its films, Disney for decades has implemented the so-called "gay agenda"—which is to say, helping make the world a more accepting place.

To start in the most obvious place: As a business, Disney has long held a progressive attitude toward LGBT people. Gay pride events have been hosted at Disney World since 1991, and the company started offered its gay employees health insurance benefits for their partners since 1995, a decision that wasn’t entirely popular back then.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: academicbias; disney; frozen; gay; gaynetwork; gaynewsrooms; hollyweirdvalues; homosexualagenda; lavendermafia; lgbtdisney; pinkjournalism; queer; waltsrotatingcorpse
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1 posted on 04/23/2014 9:44:15 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Disneyland: The homo-est place on earth.


2 posted on 04/23/2014 9:47:31 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: nickcarraway

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.


3 posted on 04/23/2014 9:47:35 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: nickcarraway

Not to defend the POS Disney but Frozen comes from a Hans Christen Andersen story not some far fairy tail.


4 posted on 04/23/2014 9:48:37 AM PDT by WilliamRobert (Obama so loves the poor he created millions more.)
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To: nickcarraway

Took the wife and kids to see Frozen. We’re all gay now. Darndest thing.


5 posted on 04/23/2014 9:49:35 AM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: Psalm 73
Yep. It's a kid's movie.

How difficult it must be for these people, to view their entire lives through only a single prism?

6 posted on 04/23/2014 9:50:19 AM PDT by wbill
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To: nickcarraway; GeronL
If a Christian preacher had been saying this, the pink press would be having a field day mocking him.

Funny thing is, such "news" items have started in the gay press in the past (like the "gay Teletubbie" item) and became "radical hysteria" when conservatives picked up the talking point.

7 posted on 04/23/2014 9:51:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: nickcarraway

How does one extract a gay theme from frozen?


8 posted on 04/23/2014 9:51:48 AM PDT by Jack of all Trades (Hold your face to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.)
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My problem with Disney throughout the years, is the way repeatedly they show kids rebelling against their parents, and always portraying the parents being in the wrong.


9 posted on 04/23/2014 9:52:04 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: nickcarraway

Give me a break. You can read gay undertones into everything... if that is your intent. Did Disney play a fast one with the “born with it?” question? Maybe... but it fits the story fine, so what does it matter? Just watch the damn movie and enjoy it. It’s a good movie. Read into whatever your worldview demands... just don’t demand that I see the same as you.


10 posted on 04/23/2014 9:53:01 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Jack of all Trades

If it’s a musical, it’s gay.


11 posted on 04/23/2014 9:53:04 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: GraceG; nickcarraway; Psalm 73; Zionist Conspirator

I’m going to be honest guys, I’ve watched Frozen and even I do not detect a gay theme.

Maybe they should just learn to Let it Go!


12 posted on 04/23/2014 9:57:17 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: a fool in paradise
Frozen has already been criticized for being 'gay'. Plenty of mocking.

Frozen lambasted as pro-gay propaganda by Christian pastor

‘Frozen’ Gay Conspiracy Theory

13 posted on 04/23/2014 9:57:17 AM PDT by Theoria (End Socialism : No more GOP and Dem candidates)
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To: pgyanke

Underneath, she's wearing a plaid flannel shirt. Insidious!

14 posted on 04/23/2014 9:58:24 AM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: Dagnabitt
Took the wife and kids to see Frozen. We’re all gay now. Darndest thing.

Oprah would say "Homos in the house! Homos in the house!"

15 posted on 04/23/2014 9:58:27 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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lol


16 posted on 04/23/2014 10:00:20 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: WilliamRobert

I liked it and didn’t notice any homosexual stuff in it.


17 posted on 04/23/2014 10:02:37 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: nickcarraway

How come no one’s talking about the lack of people of color in “Frozen”?


18 posted on 04/23/2014 10:02:48 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: dfwgator

It started with Haley Mills.


19 posted on 04/23/2014 10:03:54 AM PDT by Lisbon1940
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To: WilliamRobert

> Frozen comes from a Hans Christen Andersen story

The Nordic setting and the feudalism made me think it was an old Nordic folk tale, but Hans Christian Andersen fits right in there.

I was expecting one of the characters to say “Yompin’ Yimminee” while watching it.

As a previous poster said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.


20 posted on 04/23/2014 10:03:58 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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