Howard Ashman
While the Disney anthem, "When you wish upon a Star" tells one's dreams can come true by wishing on a star, one member of the mouse house couldn't make his wish come true no matter how hard he tried. To put it nicely, lyricist Howard Ashman died before gay marriage was legalised in the US, which happened in 2015, 24 years after his death of AIDS complications in 1991. If he had lived or the legalisation had happened before 1991, Howard would've been able to marry his partner Bill Lauch. Howard Ashman worked with composer Alan Menken and the pair created many of Disney's iconic songs like Part of your World, Friend Like Me, Under the Sea, Be Our Guest and the theme song to Disney's Beauty and the Beast. In fact, Howard Ashman is why Sebastian, Ariel's crab friend is a Jamaican accented crab and not a British accented lobster.
Like Freddie Mercury, Howard Ashman died of AIDS in 1991 but he predeceased the frontman of Queen by 8 months. Ashman's desires to be accepted as a gay man at a still cautious time could be depicted in the aforementioned Part of your world which has been interpreted as a queer anthem of some sort despite it being about a mermaid wanting to live on the surface. Queer is an umbrella term reclaimed by the LGBT community meaning neither heterosexual (in love with people of the opposite gender) nor cisgender (their gender identity is the same as their assigned birth gender). The mob song from Beauty and the Beast is said to be Howard's way of venting his suffering with AIDS into song as the lyrics which involve the villagers getting ready to storm the Beast's castle which can be interpreted as Ashman's frustration at gays and non-gays dying to an incurable disease that attacks the autoimmune system which left him blind and nearly non-verbal at the end of his life.
Despite the questionable stance regarding Disney's openness to LGBT entities (media and people), Howard has a fine and ripe legacy that is still praised today. The last film he worked on fully before his death, Beauty and the Beast (1991) was dedicated in his memory after the film's end credits. which a beautiful passage "To our friend Howard, who gave a mermaid her voice and a beast his soul, we will be forever grateful. Howard Ashman 1950-1991"