>>98897870>>98899151I like animated films, even ones that might be targeted at a... younger demographic than myself. And I've always found it kind of unfortunate that pretty much no children's films feature gay romance. There's quite a lack of LGBT representation in most media, but it's particularly absent (and depressingly so) in children's media. I think it's actually a huge roadblock against LGBT people realising and coming to accept who they are - I know that I personally spent the first many years of my life believing people came exclusively in guy/gal pairs, in no small part due to Disney's repeated insistence of such. That's why, just last year, I was pleasantly surprised to find an animated film that can be considered both a children's movie, and a gay one. It's a Japanese film called Arashi no Yoru Ni (commonly known in English as One Stormy Night).
I don't really expect you to have heard of it, seeing as it's never officially been released in English, although some fans were given permission to make a dub, which can be found on YouTube here (it's split into 8 parts).
The film is about Mei and Gabu, who meet one stormy night (Boom! Title drop) in a dark shed, and they spend the night sharing a conversation. The two of them have a lot in common and decide to become friends. Unfortunately, Mei soon realises that Gabu is a wolf, and Gabu sees that Mei is a goat. Naturally, this introduces some tension to the relationship, not only from the conflicting feelings that arise from their species being natural enemies, but also due to outside pressure from their respective herd/pack. (The story bears some similarity to Disney's The Fox and the Hound in this respect.) The relationship depicted between the two isn't explicitly romantic or sexual, it's allegedly just a friendship (albeit a very close one). But there are a few reasons that it can be interpreted as a gay film.
