Board Thread:Movie Talk/@comment-5876014-20140518164701

I just found this out today and I wasn't sure what to think about it. On the one hand, I have absolutely nothing against it. Equal rights for the LGBT Community is one of the few things that I have little doubts about. On the other hand, I'm just hoping that they aren't doing this because they want to get more attention. I'll just have to see the movie to find out.

http://www.thebacklot.com/how-to-train-your-dragon-2-gobber-is-gay/05/2014/

" There’s a gay in the Viking village. The openly gay writer and director of Dreamworks Animation’s How To Train Your Dragon 2, Dean DeBlois, tells E! that Gobber the Belch, Berk tribal chief Stoick the Vast‘s second in command, comes out in the animated sequel.

Speaking in Cannes, where the movie received a standing ovation, DeBlois says that Gobber was watching a husband and wife fight in the movie, and the line for Craig Ferguson to read was “This is why I never got married,” but Craig ad libbed on the end with “Yup, Gobber is coming out of the closet!”

''DeBlois says that he loved it. “I think that’s a really fun [and] daring move to put in. I love the idea that Gobber is Berk’s resident gay.”''

''While for decades the gay community has adopted various cartoon characters as their own (as evidenced by our recent  Gayest Cartoon Character poll), the first out character in a mainstream animation feature was in ParaNorman, where the football player comes out at the end. Now we have a Viking warrior who would kill at a Bear Run. We’ve come along way since Snagglepuss. The How To Train Your Dragon Wikidescribes Gobber as:'' ''Gobber the Belch is a six-and-a-half foot tall madman who is tasked with training Hairy Hooligan teens in various skills needed to become a Viking: catching and training dragons, pirating skills, sword-fighting, and rudery. He is incapable of speaking in any tone of voice other than a bellow. He has trained many students that became great warriors, being a capable warrior himself. He normally wears his small shorts. He believes Hiccup’s group is the best group he has ever taught. He was also one of the few people to live and tell the tale of him stealing a book from the Meathead Public Library and under the Hairy Scary Librarian’s nose also. He was the Hooligan that stole How to Train Your Dragon by Professor Yobbish. Though In A Hero’s Guide to Deadly Dragons Hiccup steals the second volume of this book. "''  