Homosexual Disney's long agenda
If you like Disney movies and Disney songs, chances are a gay man named Howard Ashman co-composed or wrote the lyrics to many of your favorites. “ Part of Your World ” and “ Poor Unfortunate Souls ” from The Little Mermaid — that’s Ashman. “ Beauty and the Beast ” — that’s Ashman too. “ Friend Like Me ” from Aladdin — yup, Ashman. Ashman, along with Disney composer Alan Menken , co-wrote all the songs for The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, and wrote the lyrics for “Prince Ali,” “Arabian Nights,” and “Friend Like Me” for Aladdin. It’s important to highlight Ashman’s personal life in the face of this boycott of the new Beauty and the Beast. It takes a special cultural ignorance to protest the adaptation because it features a gay character, even though the original movie wouldn’t be what it is without Ashman’s talent. Never mind the many other Disney characters who have been coded as or interpreted as gay characters over the years, or that “Gaston,” a number which appe