Pixar's first openly gay character is Lena Wahe 'Onward'

Contents:

• ONWARD’S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER STILL LEAV DISNEY BEHD S PETORS
• PIXAR’S FIRST OUT GAY CHARACTER TO BE VOICED BY LENA WAHE ‘ONWARD’
• PIXAR SHORT FILM ‘OUT’ FEATUR STUD’S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER
• SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
• SORRY, FOLKS, PIXAR’S LU ISN’T GAY
• PIXAR SHORT FILM 'OUT' FEATUR FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER
• HOW GAY IS PIXAR’S LU?
• PIXAR’S ONWARD FALLY GETS THE “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” RIGHT
• PIXAR SHORT FILM ‘OUT’ FEATUR STUD’S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER

ONWARD’S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER STILL LEAV DISNEY BEHD S PETORS

Me unr fire for s ial silence regardg a Florida bill rtrictg classroom discsn of sexual orientatn and genr inty — dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” by crics. Durg the tumult, Pixar employe lled out Disney executiv for cuttg “nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn” om the animatn stud’s films.

PIXAR’S FIRST OUT GAY CHARACTER TO BE VOICED BY LENA WAHE ‘ONWARD’

Onward, Pixar’s first non-sequel movie sce 2017’s Co, notably featur the stud’s first openly gay character.

This one le, livered passg wh no follow-up, marks the first verbal regnn of a character’s gay relatnship an animated Disney movie. Whether animators vertly add those gay moments, or ’s jt fans projectg, the bt-se scenar for Disney is to let LGBTQ muni celebrate potentially gay characters whout the pany havg to acknowledge their queerns. Disney’s dience is huge, and unfortunately, clus vol homophob — both the Stat and ternatnal markets, cludg untri where beg gay n land you jail — as well as queer viewers sperate for reprentatn.

PIXAR SHORT FILM ‘OUT’ FEATUR STUD’S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER

Thanks large part to lobbyg om fans, Disney started featurg explicly gay characters recent years — mostly blk-and-you’ll-miss- moments. Back 2017, director Bill Condon ma headl when he announced that his live-actn Bety and the Beast remake would feature “a nice, exclively gay moment” urty of Josh Gad’s LeFou.

SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)

The obsequ sikick to Bety and the Beast’s Gaston had always been spected of admirg the swaggerg villa as more than jt a ra, but acrdg to Condon (who is openly gay himself), his versn of LeFou would be explicly cshg on Gaston. That “exclively gay moment” end up beg even more disappotg, however, when only amounted to some (by Condon’s own admissn) “subtle” flirtg, and a few sends of footage where LeFou and a man drag lli at a celebratn. Avengers: Endgame -director Joe Rso said that was so important to him that Marvel movi reflect the queer muny that he wanted to play the Marvel Cematic Universe’s first gay character himself.

(Marvel Studs print Kev Feige has nfirmed that there will be fally be a gay superhero the MCU, urty of Brian Tyree Henry’s character The Eternals. ” In this se, the sexual exploratn happens to be gay, while films like Never Been Kissed and 10 Thgs I Hate About You, which feature siar high-school sexual terrory, are still on the platform. Or what about “Grievg Man, ” the inic Avengers: Endgame’s character who offhandly mentned gog on gay date Marvel’s big “exclively gay moment”?

SORRY, FOLKS, PIXAR’S LU ISN’T GAY

Pixar’s new short film “Out” is remiscent of classic Disney body-swap edi like “Freaky Friday” and the “Shaggy Dog” movi, but ’s also a first for the stud, bee s ma character is gay.

The story revolv around a young man named Greg, who’s aaid to tell his parents that he’s gay and is worried that they will see a picture of him and his boyiend when they e help him move. A study released last year by the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) found that only 18.4% of mastream films released 2018 clud LGBTQ characters.

PIXAR SHORT FILM 'OUT' FEATUR FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER

Disney has clud LGBTQ upl some of s blockbters – Gaston’s sikick LeFou was portrayed as gay the live-actn versn of “Bety and the Beast,” and there was a brief kiss between two female rebel fighters “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.”.

A character also me out as gay on the Disney Channel seri “Andi Mack,” which ran for three seasons before wrappg up last year. Many people have drawn a parison to a scene om the s The Other Two, which featur fake Disney executiv troducg their first gay character to a everyone is makg jok onle, as numero social media ers ngratulated nonbary voice actor Kai Ava Hser, who announced they would be voicg the groundbreakg character the new movie.

HOW GAY IS PIXAR’S LU?

" The scene and storyle of a gay actor voicg a gay "glob" featur The Other Two's Season 3 Episo 6 "Brooke, and We Are Not Jokg, Go to Space.

Pixar’s g out wh s first openly gay character — a lbian police officer voiced by “Master of None” actrs-wrer Lena Wahe.

In 2017, a live-actn remake of “Bety and the Beast, ” had the first openly gay character a Disney film.

PIXAR’S ONWARD FALLY GETS THE “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” RIGHT

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PIXAR SHORT FILM ‘OUT’ FEATUR STUD’S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER

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