Just a little advice: avoid using the words lesbian and “anti-man” in one sentence, or in context at all. Being not attracted to men is not being “anti-man”. Neither means distrusting men to be all against men, neither does being against or furious at men make it anymore likely to be lesbian/bisexual than hetero. I know you didn’t mean any offense, but it can be misunderstood. In the wild wild world of the internet (Twitter, Tumblr) you might get some harsh reactions to such a statement.
But yeah, Gothel could be queer. As long as nothing different is explicitly stated by a character, it’s always possible. We’re just used to assume someone is heterosexual as long as nothing is stated, but that doesn’t mean they are. It doesn’t matter though that Gothel is unfriendly or dismissive of men or everyone.
That there is no romance with a man in the picture for Elsa in Frozen is one reason why people see a possibilty for Elsa being lesbian, but more important is that Elsa is a character being born different, and handling being different is her story in the movie. Merida from Brave was as well discussed as being lesbian, because she had no interest to marry, she was gender non-conform, rebelling against traditional princess gender roles, but as I observed it so far, the idea is even stronger for many with Elsa, because Elsa is born different, has a power isolating her, causing hostile reactions and fear. And when she decides to free herself of the fear and be herself, she quite visibly turns from a restrained girl into a confident, enjoying herself and her powers, young woman. Elsa is in situation LGBTQI can identify with.
But fact is, there is nothing making it more likely that Elsa is lesbian/bisexual than hetero, all that there is is an opportunity because there is as of yet no man as romance in the picture. Thus why I wrote, there is an open door. For a character like Snow White the door is in the Disney world closed concerning this, at least for now and the near future. Snow has in Disney world her prince Charming (not just OUaT).
I think it would be interesting if Snow held the homophobic view (maybe this could at least lead back to the dark spot storyline that went nowhere) especially with the birth of Neal because she wouldn’t want her baby to be around “that sort of thing”. Also young Eva had that line about a baby that was “pure”. Snow could’ve been raised to believe that homosexuality was “impure”.
It’s not plausible to me. Snow might have been a spoiled brat as kid/teenager, and so was her mother Eva, but I can’t see that kind of distaste and hostility that homophobia is. Seeing the gentle nature of Snow’s father, his openness, after all he wanted to marry a miller’s daughter (and didn’t feel obliged to do so, that Cora was pregnant came up later), highly doubt in his house something like homophobia would have had any lasting place. Whatever Eva might have meant with this odd remark of a baby that was “pure”, even if she had some upbringing including intolerant views, it seems that either her husband or some other influence changed her attitudes a lot over time. We later meet a very gentle, mature, openminded Eva as Snow’s mother.
Recently read again an interview that Ginnifer Goodwin gave in the first season (it is in the character analysis thread), and she does talk about that she played Snow and Mary Margaret with some lesser noticed edges in the traditional Snow White perception, like that Snow was somewhat vain (well, as vain as any woman was thought to be though at that time). That fits with the spoiled brat and being somewhat superficial at times, still not suggesting to me any likeliness of homophobia though.
At least the baby would be a somewhat plausible trigger for reactions. That is maybe the biggest issue I have with this whole scenario. As nice as it would be to give Anna a chance to stand by her sister in particular her choice of who she loves, why should anyone in Storybrooke care who Elsa falls in love with? It might work at best as secondary or tertiary plot, some side-note to the main story. Unless it is someone the main characters care about and they perceive it as threat. They might care about Red, but that much that it becomes an important part of the story? Not saying that Elsa being queer has to be an important part, for sure not the main plot, it can be a sidenote, but still should be visible and outspoken. But if you want to make Anna standing by her a point, then that demands some importance. Otherwise would prefer it being not an issue at all, but simply bring in for Elsa a woman to fall in love with as part of regaining her control over her powers.
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