Evil Queens: The Queer History of Disney (feat. Sean Griffin)
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The episode explores the queer history of Disney and its impact on LGBTQ culture through the lens of its animated characters and stories.
To access the extended version of this episode, join our Patreon . Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos Disney sells itself as a guardian of childhood innocence and cis-het happy endings. (That's not – I didn't mean – you know what I mean.) So why did so many gay kids grow up flicking their hair back like Ariel in the hotel pool? Or mincing like Scar and shimmying with Ursula's cleavage? Above all, why did every queer child since 1998 stare in the mirror and demand to know: who is that girl, staring "straight," back at me? We're joined this week by Professor Sean Griffin, who helps Bash unpack over a century of Disney’s weirdly romanticizing, heteronormalizing fairy tales – which we homosexuals have always insisted on making much, much gayer. We begin with the hornier Mickey Mouse no one ever knew – the 1920s were crazy man! – and then stop over for some surprising episodes in Walt's homophobic 1940s and 1950s regime. Before finally, we go the distance – all the way to the Broadway Renaissance that made Disney fabulous again. It could have just been an episode about which female villains we'd like to dress up as, but ultimately we…
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