Disney is said to have sworn off white heroes for decades. If black or other characters were present, he pushed you into the background for a long time. This changed with the cartoon The Princess and the Frog in 2009, and last year with Moana, Disney presented for the first time the character of a woman who can stand up for herself and doesn't need a man to save her. If he fell behind here, Disney has now made history. In the cartoon Star vs. the Forces of Evil, he showed a kiss between same-sex people for the first time.
First same-sex movie kiss was shot back in 1922 on film Manslaughter. We had to wait until 2017 for the first animated kiss between two same-sex people. Disney actually showed the first same-sex animated kiss in history in an animated cartoon A star against the forces of evil (Old vs. the Forces of Evil). This is a big step for Disney, who started creating cartoons with heroines of other nationalities only in the 1990s (Arab Jasmine in Aladdin, Indian Pocahontas, Chinese Mulan, Hawaiian Lila), but now apparently finally started accepting characters of other sexual orientations.
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Until now, children's content has been quite reserved about this topic, so the move by the creators of the cartoon Star vs. the Forces of Evil is a big step forward. We follow in the episode an intergalactic wargame A star who lives on Earth with her best friend Marco Diaz. In The Historic Kiss Part (Season 2, Episode Just Friends) visit together boy band concert - a kind of initiation of young people before weekend drinking - and they enjoy romantic songs that provoke mass kissing. In between, we see how they kiss too two men and two women.
A star against the forces of evil is not the first animated series to feature same-sex couples, they have done this before Gravity Falls and Disney's Good Luck Charlie, but was the first to show a same-sex kiss. And this in a very elegant way, because they didn't emphasize it, but as if it was the most natural thing on this planet, which it is.
Gallery: highlights from the animated cartoon Star vs. the Forces of Evil episode of Just Friends:
