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Disney Is Reportedly Making Elsa A Lesbian In Frozen 2

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A viral hashtag has Disney fans wondering if Elsa is about to become the studio’s first openly gay princess.

Two years after #GiveElsaAGirlfriend first trended online, the campaign is louder than ever heading into production on Frozen 2. The 2013 blockbuster’s icy queen, voiced by Idina Menzel, never showed romantic interest in a single suitor throughout the original film — a detail fans and commentators haven’t let go of. With the sequel locked for a late 2019 release, speculation has hardened into a genuine pop-culture debate over whether Disney will finally make Elsa canonically gay.

• The #GiveElsaAGirlfriend petition launched in May 2016, asking Disney to make Elsa its first openly LGBTQ+ princess.
• In a February 2018 Huffington Post interview, Frozen co-director and Disney Animation chief creative officer Jennifer Lee said the team had “tons of conversations” about Elsa’s romantic direction and was “really conscientious about these things.”
• Idina Menzel has said publicly, including on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, that she is “all for it” and hopes Elsa finds love — while noting the call is entirely Disney’s to make.

Origins of the Campaign

The push traces back to May 2016, when fans launched #GiveElsaAGirlfriend as a direct petition to Disney. The argument leaned heavily on subtext already baked into the first film: Elsa’s breakout number “Let It Go” reads to many viewers as a coming-out anthem, built around shedding shame and finally living as your true self. Unlike her sister Anna, who gets swept into a whirlwind romance with Kristoff, Elsa spends the entire movie without so much as a hint of a love interest — a gap that fueled years of fan theories rather than closing the conversation.

Jennifer Lee’s Comments Reignite The Debate

The speculation went quiet for stretches before Jennifer Lee poured gasoline on it in February 2018. Talking to Huffington Post, the Disney Animation chief creative officer didn’t shut the door — she opened it a crack. Lee said Elsa was “every day telling me where she needs to go” and that fans would simply “see where we go” once Frozen 2 takes shape.

“We’re really conscientious about these things.” — Jennifer Lee, on the creative team’s approach to Elsa’s storyline

That kind of carefully hedged answer from the person actually steering the sequel’s story is exactly why the rumor mill hasn’t slowed down. Lee didn’t confirm anything, but she also didn’t dismiss it — and in a franchise this closely watched, that ambiguity is enough to keep the hashtag trending.

Idina Menzel’s Public Support

Menzel, who has voiced Elsa since the character’s debut, has repeatedly said she’d welcome the storyline. In prior appearances, including on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, she said she’s “all for it” and hopes her character eventually finds romantic love on screen. She’s also been careful to note that the decision doesn’t belong to her — it sits entirely with Disney’s executives and writers, not the voice cast.

The Backlash Alongside The Support

Not everyone is cheering the possibility. LGBTQ+ advocacy groups and a large chunk of the fanbase see an openly gay Disney princess as a milestone for representation in mainstream family entertainment, but religious and conservative commentators have pushed back hard, raising concerns about the message in a franchise built for young children. That split has made the Elsa question one of the more heated culture-war flashpoints hanging over Frozen 2‘s development, similar in tone to debates that have followed other public figures whose private lives don’t match their public image.

As of late August 2018, Disney has issued no official confirmation about Elsa’s sexuality or any plot specifics for Frozen 2. Lee’s comments remain the closest thing to an on-record answer, and until the studio says otherwise, the #GiveElsaAGirlfriend crowd has nothing but a February interview and a two-year-old hashtag to hang its hopes on. If Disney does go there, it would mark the first time the studio has handed a leading princess a same-sex love interest — a first that would land squarely inside a sequel already carrying more anticipation than almost anything else on its 2019 slate.