For this engagement essay, the article Mean Ladies: Transgenders Villains in Disney Films by Amanda Putnam and the chapter “Someday My Prince Will Come”: Disney, the Heterosexual Imaginary and Carrie L. Cokely's Animated Films will summarize, analyze, and engage in the use of the Queer analytical framework. I chose these two articles because I felt they worked very well with each other, touching on very similar topics. Putnam's (2013) focus was on Disney villains and how these characters “bend gender,” possibly giving them transgender identities. Putnam's (2013) analysis focuses on characters from The Lion King, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Cinderella and some other Disney films. Cokey (2005) focuses on Disney princes and princesses, talking about heterosexuality and its gender organization. The focus of Cokey's (2005) article is on the characters of Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Pocahontas. I felt that, reading the articles, Cokely (2005) would be a wonderful introductory article to Putnam (2013). As Putnam (2013) states, “As we already know, most of the heroes and heroines in the beloved Disney film series are hyperheterosexual” (p. 147), which is specifically what Cokely (2005) describes: falling in love , get married and live happily ever after as far as gender organization is concerned. Putnam (2013) then discusses the contrast with this, showing how many of the “villains display transgender attributes” (p. 147). I found “Someday My Prince Will Come” a very interesting and enlightening article, sometimes when watching Disney Films at face value, it is easy to miss how much these films are driven by heterosexuality. Many of the Disney films...... at the center of the paper ......a and the cause of violence against LGBTIQ people. I am so happy that articles, like those by Putnam and Cokely, deconstruct Disney and lift the vial that Disney has placed on so many of its viewers. I hope articles like these change Disney films, making them more accepting of gender identities and sexual identities that fall outside the spectrum. Works Cited Cokely, C. I. (2005). “Someday My Prince Will Come”: Disney, heterosexual imagery and animal films. In C. Ingraham (Ed.), Thinking straight: The power, promise, and paradox of heterosexuality (pp. 167–181). New York, NY: Routledge.Putnam, A. (2013). Bad Ladies: Transgender Villains in Disney Movies. In J. Cheu (Ed.), Diversity in Disney films: Critical essays on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and disability (pp. 147–162). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Inc., publishers.