Recently I was doing a bench press and The Lion King's "Be Prepared" came on my iPod. BEST WORKOUT SONG EVER. Best song ever, actually. And then I realized we don't appreciate Scar enough. We forget how shrewd and brazen he was. We neglect to remember the leadership he exemplified. We don't even all have his anthem in our Spotify library.

"He is the mean gay uncle that everyone wants," says my friend. I had never even considered Scar's sexuality previously, but she's right. He was a LGBTQ icon in the '90s, a trendsetter if there ever was one. Also, this explains why he can sing so damn well.