'Frozen' 2 news: LGBT fans campaign for Elsa to be a lesbian

Disney's announcement early this year that a sequel for the hit animation film "Frozen" is set for a 2018 release has sparked a Twitter campaign from fans belonging to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community to show "Frozen" heroine Elsa as a lesbian.

Alexis Isabel, a 17-year-old activist tweeted on Saturday, "I hope Disney makes Elsa a lesbian princess. Imagine how iconic that would be." She also started the hashtag #GiveElsaAGirlfriend that sealed the trending topic in social media. 

Jeffrey Marsh, also a Twitter user, tweeted,"#GiveElsaAGirlfriend because LGBT kids deserve to know that there is nothing wrong with them."

Someone using @dropdeaddixon as Twitter handle also posted, "Making a kids movie with a queer character won't make your kids gay it will teach them that love comes in many forms."

Some also thought they already read Elsa as a lesbian even in the first film. Others noticed a running homosexual nuance especially with the film's central theme of self-acceptance.

When asked about the supposed homosexual undertone in the 2013 animated film, writer and co-director Jennifer Lee told the Big Issue, "We know what we made. But at the same time I feel like once we hand the film over, it belongs to the world, so I don't like to say anything, and let the fans talk. I think it's up to them."

The original film is the highest-grossing animated film of all time. It's such a big hit that it created the so-called "The Frozen Effect." The United States Social Security Administration even reported an unprecedented rise in popularity of the name Elsa among girls born in 2015. The movie's Academy Award-winning theme song "Let it Go" that was very popular among children during the year it was released was also adopted as an anthem song by many LGBT groups.