The Owl House creator Dana Terrace has confirmed that Luz Noceda (Sarah-Nicole Robles), the Dominican-American witch-in-training is bisexual, making her Disney’s first LGBTQ+ lead character. The Owl House has been running on Disney Now since the beginning of the year, following the adventures of Luz, who stumbles upon a portal to another world, called the Boiling Isles, full of witches. There, she goes into training to become a witch, despite not having any magical powers.

Wendie Malick (Bojack Horseman) provides the voice of Eda, the most powerful witch in the Boiling Isles, who takes Luz under her wing. Her character must take a daily potion to avoid becoming The Owl Lady after being cursed when she was younger. She and Luz live in her house, which gives the shows its name. Season 1, episode 8 of The Owl House, title ‘Enchanting Grom Fright’ takes place around a witch version of Prom at Hexside, Luz’s witch school, called Grom. During the episode, which was broadcast on August 8, it is revealed that Luz’s former enemy and now friend, Amity (Mae Whitman), has feelings for her, and they end up sharing a dance during the episode.

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Terrace tweeted after the episode was broadcast that she had always wanted to create a show with a bisexual lead character as a result of her own bisexuality. She adds that initially the executives at Disney refused to let her make Luz bisexual, but that they finally were persuaded and are now incredibly supportive of the decision. Terrace added that she would continue to portray things that are important to her on the show. You can see the Tweet thread below.

Terrace received a number of plaudits in response to her tweets, with the Disney TV animation Twitter account posting the dance scene from the episode and lauding the way the character’s relationship had developed. GLAAD (formerly the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) also tweeted their support for the show, lauding it for portraying an age-appropriate representation of a bisexual character.

While Disney has featured gay characters before, including LeFou in 2017’s Beauty and the Beast remake, and a gay character in Pixar’s Onward this is the first time that an LGBTQ+ character has been the lead in a Disney property. It is a fairly significant step for the media giant, who have previously shied away from putting characters who aren’t straight in the spotlight.

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However, as Terrace says, there was even resistance to this decision from executives. Hopefully, in future, creators will be allowed to create characters as they want to, and not have to jump through hoops in order to put diverse characters on-screen. From that perspective alone, The Owl House has made a large stride forward for LGBTQ+ representation in TV and movies.

Source: Dana Terrace

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