Many want Elsa to get a girlfriend in Frozen 2, but why should she partner at all?

TWITTER is nuts for the idea of Elsa from Frozen hooking up with a girl, but must the point of every princess be escaping ‘single’ asks Wendy Tuohy.

The push is on to get Elsa a girlfriend in Frozen 2.

THIS week the hashtag #GiveElsaAGirlfriend has been going nuts on Twitter as fans of Frozen’s princess-sensation, Elsa, request she is revealed to be gay in Frozen 2.

The original Frozen broke the Disney mould by making its point about sisterly love being “true love” too, instead of the emphasis on the female lead finding her handsome prince, and many Twitter users reckon Frozen was already a metaphor for accepting yourself and coming out.

When teen blogger Alexis Isabel Moncada tweeted “I hope Disney gives Elsa a lesbian girlfriend imagine how iconic that would be” and “Dear @Disney #GiveElsaAGirlfriend” this week she hit a chord on the social media platform that echoed around the world.

She was retweeted nearly 2000 times and “liked” 3,200 times, trended worldwide and the push to give Elsa a female partner has been reported on most large international news and entertainment websites including Time and CNN and many big US TV news services.

You can see what it’s so popular: there are plenty of LGBTI movie-going teens and they’ve never had a same-sex attracted prince or princess in a Disney film to show them how normal they are.

Allowing courageous Elsa to come out in Frozen 2, due out in 2018, would be a great leap forward.

As Alexis Moncada has said: “The entertainment industry has given us girls who have fallen in love with beasts, ogres who fall for humans, and even grown women who love bees (Bee Movie).

Let's trend #GiveElsaAGirlfriend in hopes that @Disney will consider giving queer girls representation in princess form. 💕

— Alexis Isabel (@lexi4prez) May 1, 2016

Elsa and Elsa from Disney's Frozen.

“But we’ve never been able to see the purity in a queer relationship.”

We live in a more equal world when the Disney studios started pumping out their animated classics fairy tales, starting with Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in 1937 and pop culture should reflect it.

For Disney, Frozen was a breakthrough movie already (sending up well-trodden Disney tropes like love at first sight, too-hasty engagement and damsels in distress).

Elsa’s character was unique in that rather than travelling a story arc to happy every after with her saviour she travelled a journey to self-realisation and acceptance, just as she is.

One really positive message here is that girls don’t need to focus on partnering up as a means to an end or a “solution”, you can be happy without having been rescued or marrying a prince.

This is my problem with the idea of making Elsa come out as gay and partner up in Frozen 2: why can’t we have just one eligible young heroine — a princess even — whose life isn’t made complete by escaping the shameful state of being single?

We need gay female protagonists for sure, but a huge part of Elsa’s appeal is that she’s not preoccupied by filling some kind of void in her 21 year-old soul by being in a rush to partner up at all.

She still has plenty to sort out!

Bring on the gay princesses, as soon as you can, but is it not OK to leave Elsa just as she is?

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