Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5154975-20140830155800/@comment-4075031-20141213095040

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: YayMona wrote:

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote:

DarKingdomHearts wrote: MakoMermaidsForever wrote: Dude, lets keep gay and lesbian stuff out of this series. It is unneccessary and I cannot picture any of the characters being gay/lesbian. If i may say so, gay people and lesbian that get married have one woman/man be the husband while the other becomes a wife. Essentially, they have a corrupt version of true marriage and I cannot see this happening at all in Once Upon A Time. Also Merida sucks. She brought nothing new to the table in the Disney Princess line and as for Elsa, she only has no male love interest at the moment because she is working on controlling her powers, not because she is lesbian. She was/still is afraid of hurting people, which is why she hasn't persuded a romantic relationship with anyone. Okay I already see what kind of person you are. But you must accept that LGBT already came to this show. Mulan is a lesbian woman, she likes women. And there's nothing wrong with that. And there is no such things as a true marriage, everyone who gets married are a married couple whether they are hetero, gay or lesbian. Mulan's bisexual though. She was in love with Philip first, then Aurora. Not a lesbian. I hope that Mulan finds someone for herself, preferably someone that's not already taken. That's why I'm glad that Aurora and Philip stayed together, instead of Aurora leaving Philip just to appease an LGBT storyline. Well, we've yet to meet Shang. And even in the source material, the actual legend, Mulan ends up with one of her fellow soldiers. So there's the very real possibility that she'll end up with him.

On the other hand, I've been writing a fic (as close to canon as possible) for a while where Tarzan is introduced as a gay prince of the Enchanted Jungle, a realm neighboring the Enchanted Forest. And he falls in love with an adventurer from the Land Without Magic who falls through a portal in an ancient ruin, Clayton Porter-Jane. Obviously Clayton would be a composite of both Clayton and Jane (while being an adventurer like the movie version of Jane's father), and much like the main character of "The Mentalist", goes by his surname, Jane.

While this will obviously never happen, because "duh", I think having Tarzan and Jane as a gay couple could be cool. Especially since Tarzan is traditionally oblivious to societal norms and wouldn't know that being gay is "bad" in his time period (EF seems to be based off of the 1400's-ish), while Jane would be transported from 2014 LWM (when being gay is something normal) to 1978 EF (if the EF events are in real time to the LWM events). I don't believe that in EF being gay would be consider "bad". We are talking about fairytale characters here, where everything is about true love, good vs. evil etc. In other words, EF may look like our world in 1400, but it's not our world. Horowitz once said they will bring gay character and I don't think he was talking about Mulan, especially that they didn't confirmed that she is lesbian in the show, so I can't wait. If you think about it, it's still surprising that there is almost no LGBT and POC characters in this show, since you can find one in every other ABC series. For God's sake, there are now gay characters even in animation industry.