While these tags received a lot of support from fans across the globe there was the inevitable wave of criticism: How do I explain to my children why Elsa likes girls? Why make Captain America gay when he’s straight in the comics? Why make existing characters gay when you can add gay characters? Why do the gays want everything to be gay? These two tags were trending last week on Twitter, so it’s clear that many fans want these characters to be anything other than straight. The LGBT+ community is severely underrepresented in media, but Disney and Marvel fans have come up with a solution through Twitter hashtags: #GiveElsaAGirlfriend and #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend. Over the past eight years, Marvel has had 13 successful blockbusters and not a single one of the main or supporting characters in any of those films is gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender.
Unfortunately, big Hollywood film companies, including Disney and Marvel, seem to have not yet realized this.