The animated Disney Channel “The Owl House” has made history by having the first bisexual main character of Disney.
Luz Noceda, the show’s 14-year-old protagonist, is a normal teen who travels to another world to become a witch. Luz has shown that she is attracted to male characters in the show, and in the two most recent episodes, “Enchanting Grom Fright” and “Wing It Like Witches,” a relationship between Luz and the returning female character Amity is explored. . It is revealed that Amity had intentions of asking Luz to Grom, her world version of Prom, and the two share a dance together.
Series maker Dana Terrace substantiated viewers’ theories on Twitter that this was indeed an image of an LGBTQ relationship – something that some Disney leaders did not always like on the show.
“In [development] I was very open about my intention to put queer children in the lead role. “I’m a terrible liar that it would have been hard to sneak in,” Terrace wrote. “When we were greenlit, I was told by some Disney management that I could not represent any form of bi or gay relationship on the channel.”
Terrace, however, revealed that she has received support from Disney’s higher-ups.
‘I’m bi! I want to write a bi-character, dammit! Terrace tweeted. “Fortunately, I deserve my idiosyncrasy and now I am fully supported by current Disney leadership.”
Former animated host of “The Owl House” Spencer Wan shared the original storyboard for the dance scene between Lux and Amity, writing that it was his “first time to do everything remotely queer.”
This is not the first time Disney has included an open LGBTQ character in a cast; up to this point, however, they are represented in small or non-recurring characters. Remarkably, in this year’s feature film ‘Onward’, the character Officer Spector, voiced by Lena Waithe, was revealed to identify as a lesbian. “Andi Mack” became the first show on Disney Channel to discover a character that they are gay, and in May, the Pixar short film “Out” with a gay main character in its Disney Plus launch.
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