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SORRY, FOLKS, PIXAR’S LU ISN’T GAY
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HOW GAY IS PIXAR’S LU?
It’s also, acrdg to many, a narrative about a gay relatnship – even if the film self stops short of nfirmg that. He pots out that Disney has regnised a “‘gay market’ for s product, and not a ‘gay agenda’”.
Pixar’s short film Out (2020) foc on a gay man stgglg to e out to his parents, while the feature film Onward (2020) clus a female background character who sually mentns her girliend. In an terview wh Vany Fair, she stated: “I was … told that I uld not, by any means, have any kd of gay storyle among the ma characters. Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe clus multiple queer characters and relatnships, as well as the first mastream animated gay weddg – although only after siar executive ristance as The Owl Hoe suffered.
When Pixar first revealed the plot synopsis of s upg movie Lu — a tale of two sea-monster boys named Lu and Alberto, and an “unfettable” summer on the Italian Rivera — many people quickly pared to Call Me By Your Name, the 2017 gay romance that also took place durg an unfettable summer Italy. But 2020, Pixar released “Out” through s SparkShorts program, which centered around a gay uple.