There’s been a bit of a movement online recently that in the sequel to Frozen, Disney should give Elsa a girlfriend, following many years os people pointing at that while animation has gotten slowly more diverse, Disney’s output has remained pretty heterosexual (although there was a brief hint in Frozen that sauna owner Oaken was gay). However, now a Reddit thread suggests that there’s decent evidence that the House Of Mouse may have included a married gay couple in the recently released Zootropolis (known as Zootopia in the US).
In the movie, the young rabbit hero, Judy Hopps, moves to a city full of animals in the hope of becoming the first bunny to become a police officer. In her new apartment, she has two noisy antelope neighbours called Bucky and Pronk. While the movie is far from explicit – and the characters could have just been roommates – there is one strong hint they are actually married.
While there has previously been suggestions that they are gay, there hasn’t been a huge amount of evidence, but a viewer spotted that in the credits they are listed as Bucky Oryx-Antlerson and Pronk Oryx-Antlerson. That could mean they are brothers, but the double-barelling of the surname is suggestive that they’ve actually a couple. It is all pretty subtle and far from the more open LGBT characters in the likes of Paranorman, but it is perhaps at least a small step in the right direction.