But Disney-owned Marvel faces a different pickle as it weighs just how to acknowledge the desires driving the #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend campaign within its older-skewing Marvel Cinematic Universe- if it responds to its fans at all.Disney flirted with a similar quandary in December when fans picked up on the unintentional sizzle between male fan favorite Star Wars: The Force Awakens characters Finn (John Boyega) and Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), birthing a plethora of fanfic ‘shippers overnight. I’ll let them figure that out.”Menzel was right to put the Frozen 2 onus on Disney, which will be hard-pressed to actually work a lesbian storyline into its crown jewel franchise aimed at young girls and boys. “I think it’s great,” Menzel told ET last weekend in response to #GiveElsaAGirlfriend. So when the #GiveElsaAGirlfriend campaign went viral, calling for Elsa to get a lesbian love story in the sequel to the $1.2 billion box office smash, fans rallied around the idea.They were only further heartened when the campaign stirred the crucial support of Frozenstar Idina Menzel herself. The #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend campaign marks the second time this month that Disney’s been on the receiving end of pleas for LGBT representation in their massively successful billion-dollar properties-and this after a long history of making movies that have alternately endeared themselves to and alienated the LGBT community, delivering both classic camp icons and cringe-worthy caricatures alike.Īnimated megahit Frozen gave ice princess Elsa a journey of self-realization, gender norm-rejection, and empowerment that has been enthusiastically interpreted by some as a veiled coming-out narrative.
And if a Disney princess can get her gay happily ever after in the new millennium, why not Captain America? By the time #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend started trending on Twitter, fans had already seen the fruits of another campaign for inclusiveness pay off.
And some fans really want to see Stucky writ large onscreen, officially authenticated and endorsed by Marvel and Disney. Maybe I was just gazing at Sebastian too much.”Still, the heart wants what it wants. And I thought I put all that in the final scene, but maybe I didn’t. I think it was very clear that Peggy Carter was the first woman not just to give him the time of day, but to believe in him and to give him support and trust and honesty, and all these things I think he was hungry for. “Maybe I just didn’t do my damn job very well,” he said. I think in that final scene when I’m putting that plane in the water, he’s far more concerned with not getting to see her again than he is to give his own life.”Īgain, he continued, Peggy was always supposed to be Steve’s #1 crush. I think even with the first Captain America film you see how drawn he is to Peggy Carter. “It’s just never been part of my approach to the character. “That wouldn’t be so bad,” Evans told Flickering Myth. What if there really was a gay love story simmering beneath all those torrid glances and brawny displays of best friendship? He did, at least, acknowledge the prevalence of the Stucky ‘ship in viewer’s minds. Has he acted on even a fraction of that kind of balls-out emotion for the women who’ve crossed his path? Even within the platonic confines of the pair’s relationship within the MCU, the intensity of their bond has turned them into the Avengers’ most-shipped duo, one far more popular than any other heterosexual or homosexual (or however you might define the budding romance between Vision, an android, and Scarlet Witch) fantasy-pairing of the MCU’s heroes.īut Evans deftly shied away from the question in his Civil War interviews, probably very aware of the shitstorm that would erupt with traditional-minded fans and family-friendly Disney if he so much as validated the notion of Captain America coming out or partaking in an adult gay relationship. After all, Cap put his life, career, and friendships on the line just to protect his brooding BFF from the entire world.
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