Moana directors tease there could be an LGBTQ Disney princess soon

The hopes for an LGBTQ princess in a Disney movie have become louder recently. Fans have tried to push the realizations of those plans with social media campaigns like #GiveElsaAGirlfriend which calls for introducing an LGBTQ angle in the next Frozen movie.

Now, in an interview with the Huffington Post Ron Clements and Jon Musker, the directors of Disney’s latest movie Moana, tease that seeing an LGBTQ princess in the cinemas could actually happen. “It seems like the possibilities are pretty open at this point.”

They also hint that this could be expected in a not-so-distant future: “It will be driven by a director or a directorial team that really wanted to push that, but I would say we haven’t ever really had restrictions placed on what we’ve done.”

Clements and Musker are well known for breaking barriers in the Disney world before: For example, Ariel had to save her prince in The Little Mermaid and in The Princess and the Frog, Disney introduced their first black princess.

After that, with Moana, the first Polynesian princess for Disney, the team made sure to make a film going against the typical princess clichés once again.

“There was never a romance in that [Moana] story. It was a ‘True Grit’ thing of this young girl on a quest, and the balance of nature and the fate of her world is at stake.
We made her legs fuller and her hips are fuller to make her capable of these action stunts that we wanted to do, where she can dive off cliffs and those sort of things,” the duo explained.

So after leaving all those stereotypes behind maybe an LGBTQ princess will appear in the next Disney movie. We are waiting Disney!