Have you ever noticed how Mount Everest ‘firsts’ get more and more specific each year? You hear the occasional story of the first twins who climbed the mountain together, or the first woman from a specific district of India, or the first Pakistani man to do it without oxygen. And after a while, they feel so damn specific that you wonder what the point is.
Well, that’s how I’m feeling about Disney unveiling Onward‘s Officer Specter, their first Lgbtq character (in an animated movie). How many Lgbtq Disney firsts can there possibly be?
Officer Specter appears to be some kind of gay cop cyclops, who’s being billed as a “major first for Disney.” They promise that the character is “treated almost matter-of-factly in the movie itself” and say that “it’s a modern fantasy world and we want to represent the modern world.”
Honestly, it seems...
Well, that’s how I’m feeling about Disney unveiling Onward‘s Officer Specter, their first Lgbtq character (in an animated movie). How many Lgbtq Disney firsts can there possibly be?
Officer Specter appears to be some kind of gay cop cyclops, who’s being billed as a “major first for Disney.” They promise that the character is “treated almost matter-of-factly in the movie itself” and say that “it’s a modern fantasy world and we want to represent the modern world.”
Honestly, it seems...
- 2/24/2020
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
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