If you look into the Disney archive you’ll find a few rather unsavoury things. While to some these racist and anti-Semitic comic strips and cartoons are evidence that the House Of Mouse is and always has been evil incarnate, they’re really more evidence that the past was a very different place.
Now Disney can add gay-bashing to the list of past crimes as a 1930s comic strip has been unearthed by DeviantArt and GayStarNews, where Mickey Mouse literally kicks the butt of someone he thinks is too effeminate for his Depression-era conception of what an animated man/creature/thing ought to be.
And it’s not just the violence we can find offensive, as in just a few short frames, whoever drew the strip always manages to cram some offensive stereotyping in as well. And quite frankly, even if Mickey is a homophobe, he also needs some major anger management classes.
Of course nowadays Disney is a far more LGBT-friendly place. Indeed it’s now more often in trouble with anti-gay nuts who think the company is dedicated to turning all youngsters gay. However in the past it sometime reflected rather different values.
Click on the pic below left and scroll to read the comic strip.
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