I grew up with Disney. I love it. I recognize that the classics I know and love aren’t “modern” but that doesn’t make me love them any less. And Disney is trying. They’re trying to push themselves, but I think it’s hard for them to take those big leaps while also watching their pocketbook (and that’s crass and maybe wrong but it’s a reality of the business) As for ONCE: I want them to have an LBGT(and other letters) storyline very badly. One that doesn’t get swept under the rug like SleepingWarrior feels like it was. In the end, we’ll most likely never see SW come back in any real way because of Sarah and Jamie being on different shows. I think A and E believe in the power of love and a non hetero canon couple would fit perfectly. But it’s also about story, when they should introduce it in their narrative. My personal headcanon is that if they ever get to Hercules they make him gay. Subvert the normal “token gay character” trope (keeping with it would make Arhcie gay if anyone). I’d love to see that.
Queer erasure makes me really really angry tbh. Statistically 8% of the population has had at least one homosexual encounter so out of the hundred speaking roles(or so) we have at least 8 should be queer or have had a queer experience.(or course if anything we should have disproportionately more to make up for the lack of it up until now – we can never go back and insert PoC and Queerness into old TV shows and films that still get repeated ad nauseum). We have like… 1. Who also happens to be the 1 out of ANOTHER 8% that hasn’t turned out to be evil or dead… PoC.
They really really need to do better. Rapunzel is a good start but they can do so much more; Sleepy Hollow did.
Also having a “token” gay charter is still much better than nothing. Let’s not forget that Uhara on Star Trek would be viewed as a Token black character back in the day.
So far the moral of the story is that only straight, white, ablebodies cispeople can have happy endings… which is kind of really uncool.
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