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• DISNEY+ RELEASE PIXAR SHORT FEATURG FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER
• PIXAR SHORT ‘OUT’ PROV GAY STORI CAN LIVE ON FAY-FRIENDLY DISNEY+
• PIXAR SHORT FILM 'OUT' FEATUR FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER
• PIXAR MAK PROGRS WH DISNEY+ SHORT ‘OUT’ FEATURG ANIMATN STUD’S FIRST GAY LEAD
• PIXAR'S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER ARRIV MOVG DISNEY+ SHORT FILM
• DISNEY FILM FEATURG GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE
• DISNEY UNVEILS FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER SHORT FILM ‘OUT’
• “POLILLY CORRECT” SNOW WHE PHOTOS SPARK BACKLASHPHOTOS POSTED BY THE DAILY MAIL STIRRED UP IRE ONLE FRIDAY.BY SAVANNAH WALSHJULY 14, 2023AXELLE/BER-GRIFFSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEONCE UPON A TIME, A DISNEY LIVE-ACTN REMAKE SPARKED BACKLASH. NO, THIS WASN’T THE RACIST DISURSE AROUND THE LTLE MERMAID, OR BATE OVER POTENTIALLY QUEER BETY AND THE BEAST CHARACTERS, BUT NEWFOUND OUTRAGE ABOUT THE UPG REIMAGG OF SNOW WHE STARRG RACHEL ZEGLER.IT ALL STARTED WH A RECENT DAILY MAIL ARTICLE FEATURG WHAT THE PUBLITN SAID WERE SET PHOTOS OM THE FILM PUBLISHED UNR THE HEADLE, “EXCLUSIVE: SNOW WHE AND THE SEVEN... POLILLY-CORRECT COMPANNS? FIRST PICTUR OF NEW LIVE-ACTN REMAKE OF DISNEY CLASSIC SHOWS STAND- PRCS WALKG WH DIVERSE BAND OF MERRY MEN AND WOMEN AFTER ROW OVER G DWARF ACTORS.”THE OUTLET PUBLISHED SHOTS PURPORTEDLY PTURED ON THURSDAY OM THE MOVIE’S UK SET. THEY SHOW MULTIPLE ACTORS, SEEMGLY SNOW WHE’S WHIMSILLY NAMED NFIDANTS, AS DIFFERENT “GENRS, ETHNICI, AND HEIGHTS,” WHICH UPSET CERTA RNERS OF THE TER. THE SNOW WHE THE PHOTOS IS NOTABLY NOT ZEGLER OF WT SI STORY AND THE UPG HUNGER GAM PREQUEL, WHO ANNOUNCED, PER COLLIR, THAT SHE HAD PLETED FILMG ON THE PROJECT JULY 2022.A DISNEY SOURCE TOLD VF THAT WHILE THE ARE NOT OFFICIAL PHOTOS, THEY ARE OM THE PRODUCTN, WH STAND-S FOR SOME ST MEMBERS. THE DAILY MAIL TOLD VF STANDS BY S STORY.THE SNOW WHE REMAKE IS DIRECTED BY MARC WEBB, AND STARS GAL GADOT AS THE EVIL QUEEN AND TONY WNER ANDREW BURNAP. IT WILL REPORTEDLY CLU SONGS OM THE ORIGAL 1937 FILM, AS WELL AS NEW ON PENNED BY BENJ PASEK AND JT PL, BT KNOWN FOR THE MILS DEAR EVAN HANSEN, AND THE GREATT SHOWMAN.SCE PRODUCTN ON THE PROJECT WAS ANNOUNCED, HAS WEATHERED NTROVERSY. PETER DKLAGE PREVLY LLED THE STORY “FUCKG BACKWARD” FOR S POTENTIAL PICTN OF DWARFISM. IN A STATEMENT TO DEADLE, A DISNEY SPOKPERSON REPLIED WH THE FOLLOWG: “TO AVOID RERCG STEREOTYP OM THE ORIGAL ANIMATED FILM, WE ARE TAKG A DIFFERENT APPROACH WH THE SEVEN CHARACTERS AND HAVE BEEN NSULTG WH MEMBERS OF THE DWARFISM MUNY. WE LOOK FORWARD TO SHARG MORE AS THE FILM HEADS TO PRODUCTN AFTER A LENGTHY VELOPMENT PERD.”ZEGLER HERSELF TOLD VANY FAIR LAST OCTOBER: “PEOPLE ARE MAKG THE JOK ABOUT OURS BEG THE PC SNOW WHE, WHERE ’S LIKE, YEAH, IS—BEE NEED THAT. IT’S AN 85-YEAR-OLD RTOON, AND OUR VERSN IS A REHG STORY ABOUT A YOUNG WOMAN WHO HAS A FUNCTN BEYOND ‘SOMEDAY MY PRCE WILL COME.’”THIS STORY HAS BEEN UPDATED.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMER25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONINSI ALL OF US STRANGERS, ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYBY DAVID CANFIELDSAVANNAH WALSH
• DISNEY PL DEBUTS PIXAR SHORT, OUT, ABOUT A GAY MAN COMG OUT TO HIS PARENTS
• PIXAR'S NEW SHORT FILM, 'OUT,' IS ABOUT A GAY MAN WHO FDS LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE, AND MANY FANS ARE LLG AN UPLIFTG STORY
• DISNEY ACCED OF REMOVG GAY NTENT OM PIXAR FILMS
• PIXAR SHORT FILM ‘OUT’ FEATUR STUD’S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER

DISNEY+ RELEASE PIXAR SHORT FEATURG FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER

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And, fally, we do get a (slim) scene where there's at least an acknowledgement of a gay uple the film. Rodriguez) is the fabulo, flamboyant, gay choreographer at East High School.

PIXAR SHORT ‘OUT’ PROV GAY STORI CAN LIVE ON FAY-FRIENDLY DISNEY+

While this character is fun and entertag to watch, some might argue that this is a fairly cliche terpretatn of what gay men are actually like. Bex puts a ser damper on Andi and her iends' fun which tak a toll on her first year as a Goodman, one of Andi's bt iends, ma history as the first Disney character to ever say the words "I'm gay, " out loud on televisn. Typilly, if gay characters were reprented at all, their sexual orientatn was merely implied and not voiced.

Pixar's Out is a new short film g to Disney+, featurg the stud's first ma LGBTQ+ character and follows the story of Greg, who is gearg up to move wh his boyiend, but has not yet e out as gay to his parents. Given current social distancg guil, we're all totally hooked on Disney+ right now, and thgs are about to get even better, bee a short film by Pixar featurg the stud's first openly gay ma character has jt lnched on the platform. Aptly named Out, directed by Steven Clay Hunter, the animated film which forms part of their #SparkShorts seri, follows the story of Greg, a guy who's gettg ready to move wh his boyiend and settle down - except he hasn't que told his parents that he's gay jt yet.

The story of Out follows Greg who's planng to move wh his boyiend, spe the fact his parents don't know he's gay.

PIXAR SHORT FILM 'OUT' FEATUR FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER

Released on May 22 and only ne mut long, Out follows Pixar's prev animatn Onward, which featured a lbian character voiced by Lena Wahe, which faced backlash after she was given such a mor character the Story, Black Panther and Disney Channel origal Andi Mack have also had LGBTQ+ scen, but Out is the first time that the story has revolved around a gay uple.

I jt watched the new Pixar SparkShorts film Out on Disney+ Not only is the animatn betiful, but I also relate to on a personal level, jt like wh to spread awarens and sre homophob — Donut (TTTE & SPOP Spoilers) (@WDonut04) May 22, 2020.

READ MORE: QUIZ: How gay are you, really? The existence of “Out, ” an animated short film on Disney+ about a gay man’s g-out story, might e as a shock given recent barbs thrown at the stud.

PIXAR MAK PROGRS WH DISNEY+ SHORT ‘OUT’ FEATURG ANIMATN STUD’S FIRST GAY LEAD

But “Out” illtrat that Disney+ ntent n be both fay-iendly and al wh ser issu, and ’s a historic moment also bee giv animatn stud Pixar s first-ever gay lead. Packaged as part of Pixar’s SparkShorts program signed to lift emergg voic, “Out” is a ne-mute step toward normalizg gay characters animated films for youngsters, and quietly revolutnary s own way.

” Hunter was raised a small town Canada where, he said, “there was nothg that told me beg gay was okay. The ma character “Out” is Greg, a young gay guy who’s not out to his parents and is about to move to the big cy to live wh his boyiend, Manuel. It’s hardly guy-on-guy sex, sure, but given the lack of gay reprentatn on screens ’s still shockg.

“Out” was also signed to flip the script on the often fatalistic portrayals of gay, nfed, or closeted people g to terms wh their sexualy movi and TV.

PIXAR'S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER ARRIV MOVG DISNEY+ SHORT FILM

Penis breath equals gay equals bad. A heartwarmg tale that fally gets explic about s ’s first openly gay ma character has buted a new short film tled “Out. ”The ne-mute short film, which released on Disney Pl on Friday, tells the story of a man named Greg, who stggl wh g out as gay to his parents, tratg his partner Manuel.

Technilly, this isn’t the first gay character a Pixar film, although is certaly the first gay ma character. When Pixar’s Onward released last March, actrs Lena Wahe voiced a gay cyclops who worked as a police officer. In olr films, like Toy Story 4 and Fdg Dory, Pixar has add very mor evince of gay characters, cludg a brief shot of two women who fans spected were a lbian uple.

Oddly enough, an ET Canada terview, Fdg Dory star Ellen Degener (herself one of the first openly gay actors ntemporary Hollywood) said that there was no lbian uple the film simply bee one had short hair.

DISNEY FILM FEATURG GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE

Avengers: Endgame featured -director Joe Rso makg a meo as a gay man Capta Ameri’s therapy group who briefly mentns he is gog on a date wh another man.

As for future properti, Marvel’s The Eternals is set to feature an openly gay superhero. “Out” centers on a young gay man, Greg, who’s not out to his parents and is (naturally) about to move to the big cy to live wh his boyiend, Manuel. Almost shockgly, a gay uple is even seen kissg, albe briefly, this otherwise tame but still revolutnary s own way film, as featur animatn stud Pixar’s first gay lead.

One small step to normalizg gay characters animated films for youngsters. Pixar, earlier this year, featured a gay character promently the animated h “Onward, ” which is also available to stream on Disney+. One of them is a purple cyclops named Specter, who’s voiced by Lena Wahe and is, acrdg to the stud, Disney’s first openly gay character.

DISNEY UNVEILS FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER SHORT FILM ‘OUT’

This marks Pixar's first attempt to feature an openly gay character a central role. Related ntent: Could the heroe of Pixar's Brave be gay?

“POLILLY CORRECT” SNOW WHE PHOTOS SPARK BACKLASHPHOTOS POSTED BY THE DAILY MAIL STIRRED UP IRE ONLE FRIDAY.BY SAVANNAH WALSHJULY 14, 2023AXELLE/BER-GRIFFSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEONCE UPON A TIME, A DISNEY LIVE-ACTN REMAKE SPARKED BACKLASH. NO, THIS WASN’T THE RACIST DISURSE AROUND THE LTLE MERMAID, OR BATE OVER POTENTIALLY QUEER BETY AND THE BEAST CHARACTERS, BUT NEWFOUND OUTRAGE ABOUT THE UPG REIMAGG OF SNOW WHE STARRG RACHEL ZEGLER.IT ALL STARTED WH A RECENT DAILY MAIL ARTICLE FEATURG WHAT THE PUBLITN SAID WERE SET PHOTOS OM THE FILM PUBLISHED UNR THE HEADLE, “EXCLUSIVE: SNOW WHE AND THE SEVEN... POLILLY-CORRECT COMPANNS? FIRST PICTUR OF NEW LIVE-ACTN REMAKE OF DISNEY CLASSIC SHOWS STAND- PRCS WALKG WH DIVERSE BAND OF MERRY MEN AND WOMEN AFTER ROW OVER G DWARF ACTORS.”THE OUTLET PUBLISHED SHOTS PURPORTEDLY PTURED ON THURSDAY OM THE MOVIE’S UK SET. THEY SHOW MULTIPLE ACTORS, SEEMGLY SNOW WHE’S WHIMSILLY NAMED NFIDANTS, AS DIFFERENT “GENRS, ETHNICI, AND HEIGHTS,” WHICH UPSET CERTA RNERS OF THE TER. THE SNOW WHE THE PHOTOS IS NOTABLY NOT ZEGLER OF WT SI STORY AND THE UPG HUNGER GAM PREQUEL, WHO ANNOUNCED, PER COLLIR, THAT SHE HAD PLETED FILMG ON THE PROJECT JULY 2022.A DISNEY SOURCE TOLD VF THAT WHILE THE ARE NOT OFFICIAL PHOTOS, THEY ARE OM THE PRODUCTN, WH STAND-S FOR SOME ST MEMBERS. THE DAILY MAIL TOLD VF STANDS BY S STORY.THE SNOW WHE REMAKE IS DIRECTED BY MARC WEBB, AND STARS GAL GADOT AS THE EVIL QUEEN AND TONY WNER ANDREW BURNAP. IT WILL REPORTEDLY CLU SONGS OM THE ORIGAL 1937 FILM, AS WELL AS NEW ON PENNED BY BENJ PASEK AND JT PL, BT KNOWN FOR THE MILS DEAR EVAN HANSEN, AND THE GREATT SHOWMAN.SCE PRODUCTN ON THE PROJECT WAS ANNOUNCED, HAS WEATHERED NTROVERSY. PETER DKLAGE PREVLY LLED THE STORY “FUCKG BACKWARD” FOR S POTENTIAL PICTN OF DWARFISM. IN A STATEMENT TO DEADLE, A DISNEY SPOKPERSON REPLIED WH THE FOLLOWG: “TO AVOID RERCG STEREOTYP OM THE ORIGAL ANIMATED FILM, WE ARE TAKG A DIFFERENT APPROACH WH THE SEVEN CHARACTERS AND HAVE BEEN NSULTG WH MEMBERS OF THE DWARFISM MUNY. WE LOOK FORWARD TO SHARG MORE AS THE FILM HEADS TO PRODUCTN AFTER A LENGTHY VELOPMENT PERD.”ZEGLER HERSELF TOLD VANY FAIR LAST OCTOBER: “PEOPLE ARE MAKG THE JOK ABOUT OURS BEG THE PC SNOW WHE, WHERE ’S LIKE, YEAH, IS—BEE NEED THAT. IT’S AN 85-YEAR-OLD RTOON, AND OUR VERSN IS A REHG STORY ABOUT A YOUNG WOMAN WHO HAS A FUNCTN BEYOND ‘SOMEDAY MY PRCE WILL COME.’”THIS STORY HAS BEEN UPDATED.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, INHERG GRACELAND, AND MORETE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALWHY THE GEIA INDICTMENT AGAST TMP AND HIS ALLI IS THE MOST SWEEPG YETIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMER25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSA NEW SLIM AARONS BOOK CAPTUR A LOST WORLDFROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONINSI ALL OF US STRANGERS, ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYBY DAVID CANFIELDSAVANNAH WALSH

6 ln over the five-day holiday weekend spe beg herald as the first Disney movie to clu an openly gay ma character. However, those figur were rapidly, and signifintly, revised downwards when was unrstood how poorly the movie was performg wh wh other recent Disney animated movi cludg Lightyear (another disappotg box office flop), Strange World sought to crowbar progrsive to the film, cludg for the first time Disney’s history an openly gay ma character. However, one liberal movie reviewer said Disney would likely e homophobia to shield om the film’s obv shortgs.

“Disney is 100% gog to blame STRANGE WORLD’s evable bad box office on the fact that there’s an openly gay character the movie when realy, ’s gog to flop bee they didn’t market at all.

DISNEY PL DEBUTS PIXAR SHORT, OUT, ABOUT A GAY MAN COMG OUT TO HIS PARENTS

TV Le has revealed the rults of GLAAD’s “We Are On TV” report, and while the fdgs show that the number of LGBTQ+ characters — specifilly, lbian, gay, transgenr, and queer characters — are at an all-time high for broadst and streamg media, also shows jt how far behd Disney+ is pared to other servic.

The 2021-2022 TV season also marks the first time lbian characters reprented the majory (40%) of LGBTQ characters on the five broadst works, surpassg gay men. …[were] the only platform this year where gay men make up the majory of LGBTQ characters (wh 33%).

PIXAR'S NEW SHORT FILM, 'OUT,' IS ABOUT A GAY MAN WHO FDS LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE, AND MANY FANS ARE LLG AN UPLIFTG STORY

Months later, the MCU buted s first gay character — Brian Tyree Henry’s Phastos Eternals (2021). Disney-owned Pixar Animatn Studs has unveiled s first-ever gay ma character a short Disney Pl film lled Out.

Pixar has troduced s first-ever openly gay ma character, which released through Disney Pl’s SparkShorts seri on Friday. Soon after swappg bodi wh his dog, Greg antilly ns around the hoe tryg to hi any and all evince that he is gay — such as his male mol lendar and a amed photograph of him wh his boyiend Manuel sharg a hot a.

DISNEY ACCED OF REMOVG GAY NTENT OM PIXAR FILMS

So, Greg’s mother knows Greg is gay after all. After realizg that his mother has been privy to his homosexualy all along, Greg fds a way to get back to his own body, and later troduc his parents to Manuel while the fairy god-pets watch the distance before ascendg back to the sky on their rabow.

Earlier this year, Pixar’s Onward beme the first feature film to clu a gay character the form of Lena Wahe’s cyclops p Officer Spector. Disney Pl buted a Pixar short film Friday that breaks new ground for the animatn stud by featurg an openly gay lead character and then by showg him kissg his ne-mute animated film, Out, tells the story of a man named Greg who is livg wh his boyiend, Manuel.

The two are packg up for a move to the cy when Greg’s parents – who don’t know he is gay – show up at the door to help. ”Related:PBS Kids’ ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’ Introduc LGBT Characters ‘Arthur’ the 1st PBS Cartoon wh a Gay Weddg – ‘It’s a Brand-New World’Same Street to Feature Actor Billy Porter Wearg a DrsDisney-Pixar's Onward Mak History wh 1st Openly LGBT CharacterPhoto urty: ©DisneyMichael Fot has vered the tersectn of fah and news for 20 years.

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

”Disney sued DeSantis April, claimg that the ernor’s cisn to strip the pany of ntrol of the special district ntag s signature theme park was retaliatn for s opposn to Florida’s “don’t say gay” bill, which forbids stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty krgarten through third gra. Pixar's new short film, 'Out, ' is about a gay man who fds love and acceptance, and many fans are llg an upliftg story.

A letter om a group of employe of Pixar – the stud behd Toy Story, The Incredibl and Insi Out – claimed Disney executiv have “barred” moments of gay affectn om films before they are by “the LGBTQIA+ employe of Pixar & their alli”, the letter says: “We at Pixar have personally wnsed betiful stori, full of diverse characters, e back om Disney rporate reviews shaved down to cmbs of what they once were. ”It adds: “Nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn is cut at Disney’s beht … Even if creatg LGBTQIA+ ntent was the answer to fixg the discrimatory legislatn the world, we are beg barred om creatg .