Idina Menzel addresses campaign for 'Frozen' character Elsa to be gay

Idina Menzel has addressed the #GiveElsaAGirlfriend campaign to make Elsa from Frozen a lesbian, which first started trending on Twitter last month.

"I think it's great," Menzel said speaking at Sunday's Billboard Music Awards, according to EW. "Disney's just gotta contend with that. I'll let them figure it out." Menzel added that the character has "changed my life."

Twitter user Alexis Isabel started the hashtag on Twitter on April 30. Her first tweet using it has surpassed 2,000 retweets and 3,000 likes.

"Growing up, I never saw a princess fall in love with another princess — and neither have girls growing up right now," Isabel said in an article she wrote for MTV. "The entertainment industry has given us girls who have fallen in love with beasts, ogres who fall for humans, and even grown women who love bees. But we’ve never been able to see the purity in a queer relationship."

As to why she singled out the character Elsa, Isabel said "Many in the LGBT community view this movie as a metaphor for the experience of coming out and accepting who you are. Yet Elsa, the film’s protagonist, will probably end up with a male prince or king in the upcoming Frozen sequel. These thoughts soon drenched my mind and pushed me to tweet about how 'iconic' it would be if Frozen’s Elsa were cast alongside a princess instead."

Frozen is the highest-grossing animated film of all time. The 2013 musical about a young princess with ice powers (Idina Menzel) and her spunky sister (Kristen Bell) grossed over $1.2 billion at the box office upon release. The movie was a global phenomenon with Frozen merchandise sold out at stores across the world long after release and some of that merchandise going on eBay for over $1,000, according to the New York Post.

Elsa, Menzel's icy queen that sang the Oscar and Grammy-winning song "Let It Go", was the 88th most popular baby name for girls just months after the film hit theaters, according to a poll by BabyCentre. A sequel and a Broadway production are in the works.

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