Given how small the part is, people are disappointed to say the least. It’s a modern fantasy world and we want to represent the modern world.' Officer Spencer helps the elf brothers on their quest and reveals she's queer by making a brief reference to her girlfriend while talking to the elves. Speaking to Yahoo, Dan Scanlon said: 'The scene, when we wrote it, was kind of fitting and it opens up the world a little bit, and that’s what we wanted. People are criticising Disney for failing to make its 'first openly gay' animated character a) human and b) a significant part.ĭisney are being called out over their 'first openly gay' animated character.