Smee, 1953, ©Walt Disney Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection ©Walt Disney Co./Courtesy Everett Collection The Early Disney Years: Subtext and Coding PETER PAN, from left: Peter Pan, Captain Hook, bottom: Mr. Read on for a look at Disney’s long, troubled history with LGBTQ people. The result is a company with a lot of gay employees that regularly pays lip service to including everyone, but rarely measures up to even the lowest standards of inclusion. On one hand, queer subtext runs galore in many of the films gay Disney fans are a very real (and, let’s be honest, lucrative) phenomenon and many of the most important creators in the company’s history are out and proud members of the LGBTQ community.īut Disney is also famously protective of its brand and reputation as “family friendly.” Disney executives tend to be hesitant about featuring gay characters in films in order to maintain a conservative image - and marketability in countries with homophobic censorship laws. Disney and the queer community have always made for strange, awkward bedfellows.
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