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Stevenson, also, was strategic about the central queer narrative of her show. The stubbornness paid off and a week or two later I was given the all-clear. Join Vanity Fair to receive full access to VF. Search Search. Just make a decision.

Sugar and Stevenson are convinced that that behind-the-scenes support Terrace mentions is going on at every animation network and studio, including Disney feature films. For decades queer readers and audience members have had to rely on this kind of subtle nod to find themselves in stories.

I let myself get mad, to absolutely blow up, and storm out of the room. Terrace is well aware of the fellow creators who paved her way. With Raya and the Last Dragon, viewers thought that they'd get some of that with Raya and Namaari. It would be especially cool if they stopped censoring those storylines in certain countries.

Kelly Marie Tran revealed that she thinks Raya has romantic feelings for Namaari in the movie. Luckily, the executives I directly work with have given me nothing but support. But queer representation in these stories are also key for helping parents of LGBT youth.

But, honestly, I suck at lying. But Ruby and Sapphire did, eventually, have their day in the sun. If the protocol at Disney remains in the way it has been presented, it may not be the last time. Sugar raya to be cowed. The animated film, directed by Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada, is being praised for introducing Disney's first Southeast Asian heroine.

This practice of queer-baiting, seen most recently and publicly in the end of the long-running TV series Supernatural or the hubbub around Finn and Poe in The Rise of Skywalker, has become increasingly intolerable among queer audiences who finally have other stories that will offer representation without the bait and switch.

It only started changing once we started getting positive, vocal support from fans of the show. For the queer princess diehards, though, Kelly Marie Tran is in their corner. They picked up on all the queer subtext, and they wanted more.

They know queer storylines bring in audiences but they also want plausible deniability, politically. Raya and the Last Dragon ’s Kelly Marie Tran Thinks Her Disney Princess Is Gay Animation has outpaced the rest of Hollywood in queer representation, but Disney films are still lagging behind.

And when you grow up seeing that, you get the message at a very young age that you are not supposed to exist. Therefore, Raya and the Last Dragon is the first Walt Disney Animation Gay to have a transgender character. In the She-Ra series finale, which aired inShe-Ra and her longtime antagonist Catra, finally kissed after sparking and sparring with each other all through the show.

Sign In. Viewers of Raya and the Last Dragon are already speculating about the central character's sexuality, proving Disney is still repeating its Elsa problem. The two women, gay highly trained fighters and, yes, technically princesses, hail from different corners of the fictional land of Kumandra and are fighting tooth and nail to protect their homes.

Kelly Marie Tran, who voices Raya in the movie, has been pretty vocal with her belief that Raya is gay, something she openly spoke about in Vanity Fair. Disney has no reason to fight back on any raya this stuff anymore.