3. Elsa
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Frozen was a worldwide sensation following its release, but there’s one thing all of us (or many of us) missed: Elsa is clearly a lesbian. Physically closeted in her bedroom for most of her childhood (WE CAN SEE THROUGH THAT METAPHOR), the last thing Elsa is interested in upon her parents’ deaths is finding a man. We know her heart only feels cold and icy because she hasn’t warmed up to the idea of loving a woman yet, but we’re pretty sure her journey in the movie was proof that she’s well on her way.
“The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside/ Couldn’t keep it in, heaven knows I tried!/ Don’t let them in, don’t let them see/ Be the good girl you always have to be/ Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know/ Well, now they know!/ Let it go!”
“Let It Go” should honestly be the coming out anthem. Yass [Ice] Kween!
4. Tobias
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Animorphs was a series all about puberty and teenage exploration set amongst a subplot of alien invasion. Out of the small group of teenagers we read about and looked to to save the Earth from the Yeerks, we all knew there was something different about Tobias, the shy loner of the group. Despite his on-again, off-again relationship with the beautiful Rachel, we’re convinced that Tobias was struggling to deal with the pressures of the dominant heterosexual patriarchy, not to mention his broken home and presumed orphanhood. After morphing for too long and getting stuck as a hawk, Tobias ultimately becomes a notholit, which we’re pretty sure is just a metaphor for being bi.
5. Tin Man
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Sure, there’s this whole complex backstory of the Tin Woodman’s tragic love life—which ultimately ended when his body became entirely replaced by tin parts and he was left without a heart—but we don’t buy that. Does the Tin Man actually not have a heart, or is he just unsure of whom to love? Let’s not forget that Tin Man often gets overly sensitive to all kinds of issues, which really makes us think that he’s harboring a bigger secret inside of that studly tin body.