Gaston and LeFou ( Beauty and the Beast, 1991) He’s around to offer Megara relationship advice and if he could get us closer to Hercules, we’d be happy to have him in our life. Yes, the flame-haired demi-god is another villain who can be read as queer but he can also been seen as a riff on the stereotype of every girl’s gay best friend. If you’re in any doubt about Governor Ratcliffe, get a load of his hair! There’s no saying for sure if these characters are gay but they do incorporate stereotypical gay mannerisms. There’s a long tradition of effete, effeminate villains in Hollywood and this carries over into animation (see also: Shere Khan in The Jungle Book and Scar in The Lion King). The voluptuous sea-witch was modelled on drag queen Divine, perhaps fitting for a film based on a fairytale written by gay author Hans Christian Andersen, who saw it as a metaphor for his own love for a man beyond his reach.
While Josh Gad’s LeFou is set to feature in the studio’s first “exclusively gay moment” on film, many of Disney’s most memorable creations are ‘coded’ gay characters, whose identities – for better or worse – were shaped by queer sensibilities.Īs Disney prepares to embark on a new era in its representation of LGBT characters, here’s a look back at some of its history…
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The news that the upcoming live action remake of Beauty and the Beast is set to feature Disney’s first explicitly gay character has rightly been praised as a small but important step for LGBT representation in family entertainment – despite the sadly all-too-predictable backlash from some quarters.
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