LGBTQ+ Movies & Shows on Disney+: The Best On The Streamer

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Image Credit: STR/NurPhoto/Shutterstock In caller years, galore Disney movies and shows person featured characters who are members of the LGBTQ+ community. There person been plentifulness of LGBTQ+ characters and plotlines featured passim Pixar and Marvel arsenic well. June is Pride Month, celebrating the LGBTQ+ community.

Pride period is here! While the past of LGBTQ+ characters successful movies, particularly Disney films, has occasionally created controversy, we’re surviving successful a clip wherever there’s much practice than ever! While galore characters successful Disney’s past person been coded arsenic gay, galore much caller movies and TV shows person had characters that are openly members of the LGBTQ+ community.

HollywoodLife has picked retired immoderate of the champion movies streaming connected Disney+ to observe Pride Month. 

Love, Victor

‘Love, Victor’ features the beingness of a teen struggling with his sexuality, household life, and school. (Everett Collection)

Inspired by the 2018 film Love, Simon, the series Love, Victor explores teenage years and grappling with intersexual predisposition successful a heartfelt teen drama. The amusement follows Victor Salazar (Michael Cimino) a teen astatine a caller school, who is struggling to travel retired arsenic cheery and navigate being a teenager. After the archetypal season, it focuses connected issues that Victor faces with his household and astatine schoolhouse aft coming out. Originally released connected Hulu, the amusement was simultaneously released connected Disney+ for its 3rd season.

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

‘HSMTMTS’ features aggregate cheery characters. (Everett Collection)

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is definite to supply nostalgia for tons of fans who grew up connected the archetypal DCOM trilogy and invited younger, caller fans into the fold. It besides introduced cheery characters into the beloved franchise with Carlos (played by Frankie Rodriguez), Seb (Joe Serafini), and Maddox (Saylor Bella Curda), arsenic good arsenic bisexual characters Ashlyn (Julia Lester) and Big Red (Larry Saperstein).

Frankie opened up astir however helium was blessed that the bid focuses connected cheery characters without harping connected tropes successful a 2019 interrogation with Gay Times. “And what I emotion is that it’s not the absorption of the character, you know? I deliberation by allowing the quality to beryllium openly gay, it really kinda adds much layers to beryllium like, ‘Okay, he’s openly gay, but what are his dreams? What are his goals? What is helium gonna bash to get there?’ It became much astir his aspirations for beingness alternatively than his sexuality,” helium said.

Loki

Loki is revealed to beryllium bisexual successful his Disney+ series. (Everett Collection)

Tom Hiddleston has agelong been 1 of the astir beloved characters successful the Marvel Cinematic Universe, since making his debut arsenic Loki successful 2011’s Thor. Whether he’s featured in The Avengers, Thor: Ragnarok, or adjacent his little quality in Avengers: Infinity War, Loki regularly steals the show. He got his infinitesimal to radiance though successful 2021 with Loki. While the MCU has had its stock of LGBTQ+ characters implicit the years, Loki is the archetypal bisexual lead. He confirmed successful 1 enactment connected the show.

Loki director Kate Herron later took to Twitter to besides corroborate that helium was bisexual. “Tt was precise important to me, and my goal, to admit Loki was bisexual,” she wrote, according to USA Today. 

Onward

‘Onward’ was 1 of Disney’s archetypal movies to diagnostic a cheery character. (Everett Collection)

Pixar’s Onward from 2020 is 1 of Disney’s astir heart-warming movies of caller memory. The movie tells the communicative of 2 member elfs (voiced by Tom Holland and Chris Pratt) who are trying to find immoderate magic to reunite with their begetter who has passed away. The brace tally into a assortment of antithetic forms of occupation arsenic they marque their mode connected the journey, including moving into a Lena Waithe-voiced quality named Specter, who is simply a cyclops who happens to beryllium a lesbian. The character’s sexuality is lone mentioned successful passing, but it is an breathtaking infinitesimal for Disney.  Lena is besides a lesbian, and Specter has been touted arsenic Disney’s archetypal openly cheery character.

Unfortunately, the country wherever it’s revealed that Specter is cheery has led to immoderate controversy. The movie was banned successful immoderate Middle Eastern markets due to the fact that of the character. Some of the countries wherever the movie wasn’t allowed to beryllium screened, included Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Qatar, per Deadline.

The Proud Family: Louder & Prouder

‘The Proud Family’ reboot features a cheery quality and couple. (Everett Collection)

One of the galore Disney Channel shows to get a reboot connected Disney+ is The Proud Family: Louder And Prouder. Given the rubric of the show, it’s besides a fitting prime for Pride Month! The revival of the bid features the quality Michael (voiced by EJ Johnson), who is openly cheery and sex non-conforming. The amusement besides features the interracial cheery couple Barry and Randall Leibowitz-Jenkins (voiced by Zachary Quinto and Billy Porter, respectively).

When the reboot revealed that it would diagnostic LGBTQ+ characters, GLAAD praised Disney for their inclusion. “Having recurring queer characters, and particularly recurring achromatic queer characters, successful specified a wide loved amusement is simply a ramifying accomplishment for accelerating the acceptance of LGBTQ radical and LGBTQ radical of colour everywhere,” they said successful a  statement.

Cruella

‘Cruella’ features the archetypal cheery quality successful a Disney live-action movie. (Everett Collection)

With the live-action spinoff astir 1 of Disney’s astir celebrated villains, Cruella also boasts the archetypal cheery quality successful a live-action Disney movie with Artie (John McCrea), per Pride. Inspired by David Bowie and Marc Bolan (both precocious rockers who were unafraid to situation sex roles), Artie was 1 of the members of Cruella’s unit and had a ample beingness successful the film, per Screen Rant. 

While the movie has received immoderate disapproval for stereotyping and not outright saying what Artie’s sexuality is, John has made a constituent to acceptable the grounds consecutive connected the character. “I deliberation it’s important to accidental helium is queer due to the fact that obviously, tons of radical were dressed similar that astatine the clip that weren’t needfully queer, but successful my head, helium ever was,” helium told Gay Times. “Sometimes there’s a interest astir LGBTQ+ characters being determination for nary reason, oregon being the butt of the joke. But, helium truly feels similar helium fits truthful perfectly into that world.”

Strange World

‘Strange World’ features a cheery protagonist. (Everett Collection)

Disney’s 2022 sci-fi animated feature Strange World is 1 of the archetypal animated films to diagnostic a cheery pb protagonist with Ethan Clade (voiced by Jaboukie Young-White). While immoderate of Disney’s different cheery characters person been criticized for either queer-coded characters oregon mediocre examples of representation, Strange World received overmuch praise for the portrayal of Ethan’s story, per Mashable. 

Lightyear

‘Lightyear’ features the archetypal same-sex buss successful a Disney movie. (Everett Collection)

One of Disney’s much caller films to see an LGBTQ+ pb quality was the 2022 animated enactment film Lightyear. The movie came connected the heels of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which banned teachers from discussing intersexual predisposition and sex individuality successful the classroom. The movie features a buss betwixt Izzy (voiced by Keke Palmer) and her spouse Kiko, which was reportedly chopped but enactment backmost successful arsenic a effect of the legislation, per Variety. 

Chris Evans, who voiced the titular Buzz Lightyear, celebrated the determination to keep the country successful the movie, successful an interrogation with Variety. “The extremity is that we tin get to a constituent wherever it is the norm, and that this doesn’t person to beryllium immoderate uncharted waters, that yet this is conscionable the mode it is,” helium told the outlet. “That practice crossed the committee is however we marque films.”

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