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This post is sorely missing some seriously important historical context. The term for this as film history goes is the sissy, and as a stock character the sissy is probably one of the oldest archetypes in Hollywood, going back to the silent film era. Some of the most enduring stereotypes of male queerness—the limp wrist, swishing, etc—can actually be traced to the exaggerated movements of cinematic sissies in silent films. And it’s vital to note sissies were portrayed in a range of ways, though they were generally used to comedic effect; queerness was considered a joke, and the modern notion of the “sassy gay friend” in films can probably be traced back to this bullshit too. It wasn’t until the Hays Code was adopted in the ’30s that sissies almost uniformly started existence portrayed as villains. Homosexuality was specifically targeted under the euphemism of “sexual perversion”, and the only way it could travel under the radar in films under the strict censorship of the code was by coding villains that way in contrast to the morally upright hetero heroes. Peter Lorre’s ch
There’s something lgbtq+ about Disney villains
April 20,
PhD student Dion McLeod analysed animated feature films in his thesis
Dion McLeod has watched the Disney animated feature Frozen times &#; and the clip of the film&#;s smash song Let It Go another or so times. He&#;s also watched Sleeping Beauty, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Tangled, Peter Pan, Beauty and the Beast and The Emperor&#;s New Groove between 30 and 40 times each.
While he did enjoy watching the films, the multiple viewings were done in the name of investigate for his PhD, which examines &#;the villain as gender non-conforming in animated Disney films&#;. He was awarded his PhD from the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts in a graduation celebration at the University of Wollongong today (Thursday 20 April).
The idea for his study grew out of an English course on children&#;s literature Dion took while studying for his Bachelor of Arts. After writing an essay on positive portrayals of homosexuality in children&#;s and adolescent adult texts, he became interested in writing about the less positive (and far more comm
Maleficent & 9 More Disney Characters You Never Knew Were Queer-Coded
For a long time, Hollywood could not explicitly depict LGBTQ+ characters, and so queer characters were portrayed as a composite of various stereotypes, which is a practice famous as queer-coding. Unfortunately, almost all of these queer-coded characters were villains since dominant American society of the early 20th Century was unwilling to accept gay people in heroic roles.
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With that in mind, Disney villains are notorious for being queer-coded. In fact, an ongoing dialogue within LGBTQ+ communities is the influence Disney villains had on enabling young people to process their own sexualities. Now that queer people can finally enjoy proper representation, it is worth looking back and noting some of the major Disney villains who were queer-coded.
Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
The sea witch Ursula is a classic example of a queer-coded character. While all of the merfolk in the film include their human anatomy below the waist replaced with fish
Recently after watching Pitch Matchless 2 I took to Twitter to compile a list of disaster bisexuals, in doing so (and with the help of others) I realised that a lot of the characters coming up were villains. This isn’t a new thing, queer advocacy and villainy has a long and complicated history, especially when it comes to kids films &#; here&#;s looking at you Disney. I expect to see a camp, dramatic antagonist in a Disney film, but why is it so easy to see Captain Hook or Ursula as Bisexual/Queer when we don’t necessarily assume of our hero’s in the same way?
Queer coding, much as the designate suggests, refers to a process by which characters in a piece of fictional media seem — or code — gender non-conforming. This is usually determined by a series of characteristics that are traditionally associated with queerness, such as more effeminate presentations by male characters or more masculine ones from female characters
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A lot of this is born from negative stereotypes from the golden age of cinema, when actors or voice artists were told to play a character as gay, embod