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Ferdinand the Bull
Disney won the Oscar for Best Animated Short in 1939 with a cartoon about a sleepy eyed bull who doesn’t conform to traditional expectations of masculinity.
“All the other bulls wanted most of all to fight at the bullfights in Madrid, but not Ferdinand,” the narrator explains. “He still liked to sit just quietly under the cork tree and smell the flowers.” Once captured and forced into the ring, Ferdinand still refuses to fight—he’s too distracted by the flowers the toreador is holding.
Though the short is mostly forgotten, it’s one of the few instances where a queer-coded Disney character wasn’t depicted as evil.
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