A veteran animator for the Disney corporation stated recently that the company is open to the idea of homosexual characters in their animated feature films, provided the story and concept fit the bill.
Andreas Deja, an animator interviewed for the Australian website News.com.au, expressed the belief that Disney films featuring homosexual families are a realistic option.
However, Deja stressed that “it has to be the right kind of story and you have to find that first.”
Deja describes Disney as a “gay-friendly” company. The Disney theme parks host so-called “gay days” and other LGBT-oriented events, while the film studios have worked with several prominent and openly-gay artists including Elton John and Howard Ashman, who contributed lyrics to “The Little Mermaid.”
Some viewers are bound to object to the portrayal of gay families in animated Disney features, notes ATV commentator Ian Westhead. But Deja insists that Disney will not push for gay characters without an appropriate context.
“We won’t all of a sudden make R-rated films,” Deja said.
hi I’m gay my self and I think it would be good if it was a coming of age homosexual story. An animated one like princess and the frog, like boy once was straight, then he gets a curse on him, suddenly attracting boys then soon he gets in a relationship with one, symbolizing his accepting attitude. Or it could be a live action one where a boy based him self on the Disney princesses, then soon finds out it’s not as easy as he thinks, finding a prince charming. Also should be a film accepting transvestites in it. I don’t know but I think it’s a great idea =).
Open to a montage of a little boy, a prince, playing with his mother. Various scenes are shown involving this and building on this idea. The mother is shown constantly telling him, “You can be anything you want to be”, and so he grows up wanting to be a princess, but as he grows up, he soon realizes that the world won’t let this happen, and is not nearly as accepting as his mother. His mom passes away, the film skips forward until he is a teenager, and the movie follows not only the relationships with his friends, and his journey to find true love, but his relationship with his dad, who struggles to accept him. This is also made more heartbreaking because the boy reminds his father so much of his mother. The film ends with him finding true love, most likely in a man who is a peasant or someone not of royalty, (possibly even his best friend) and his father finally coming to accept him.
This is wonderful! I, as an open gay person am simply ecstatic about this! Perhaps a girl who was always picked on for being a bit of a “Tomboy” runs away one day and meets a girl in the woods, the other girl is very fickle and is implied that she suffers from verbal abuse at home. They make a safe haven in the woods where they adventure together in a fantasy-like world. The two begin to realize that their feelings are more than friendly towards one another.
This is an amazing idea I believe there should be gay disney movies but not a prince + prince thing no that seems old and just a bad idea to me just a boy in highschool sorta in the closet trying to come out sounds really good to me
I love this idea.
In all seriousness, I think they should make Riku and Sora from their Kingdom Hearts (Disney/SquareEnix) series a couple. It would be perfect. 🙂