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.
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