The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film) the film – stemmed from the company's domestic partnership policy and gay and lesbian theme days at Walt Disney World. Gary Trousdale also claimed that Southern Baptists were outraged over the casting of Demi Moore as Esmeralda, as she had just come off of the controversial "Striptease", in which she played an exotic dancer. Disney officials would not comment on the motivation for the religious content displayed in the film beyond comments on the subject included in the film's press kit with Disney vice president John Dreyer commenting, "The film speaks for itself." Nevertheless, there was praise from religious organizations
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame have been revised over time. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (, "Our Lady of Paris") is a French Romantic/Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. The novel's original French title, "Notre-Dame de Paris", is a metaphor: it refers to Notre Dame Cathedral, on which the story is centered, and Esmeralda, the novel's main character who is "our lady of Paris" and the center of the human drama within the story. Frederic Shoberl's 1833 English translation was published as "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (which became the generally used title in English), which refers to Quasimodo, Notre