Disney+ has just released a new documentary film, Howard, celebrating Howard Ashman, the queer visionary who penned songs for Disney hits like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin.
Ashman penned iconic songs like Under the Sea and Kiss the Girl for The Little Mermaid, Belle and Be Our Guest for Beauty and the Beast and Friend Like Me for Aladdin.
He won two Oscars, one posthumously, for Best Original Song, with Under the Sea and Beauty and the Beast. Ashman also composed The Mob Song in Beauty and the Beast, which was inspired by the way that people living with HIV/AIDS in America during the 1980s were treated by the wider public.