Pixar director Enri Casarosa drew heavily om faiar g-out stori and other "gay narrative" trop for his animated movie Lu. (It’s all there, om nversn therapy to passg privilege.) But he’s still nyg any gay ntent, shuttg down queer viewers who see themselv the film. The bate mirrors other s, om Star Wars’ Le Skywalker to Anthony Mackie’s ments on The Faln and the Wter Soldier, where LBGTQ+ viewers terpret stori through their own lens, and the creators try to ny them. Here’s why eedom of terpretatn matters.
Contents:
- DO DISNEY’S ‘LU’ HAVE A GAY CHARACTER?
- LU MAY NOT BE A GAY NARRATIVE, BUT ’S ABSOLUTELY A QUEER ONE
- WA A SEC — ARE THE MA CHARACTERS PIXAR’S ‘LU’ GAY?
- KIDS REACT STAR WHO WENT VIRAL FOR ANTI-GAY VIEWS IS NOW PRO-LGBT
- THE PERFECT DATE SHOWS JT HOW BADLY ROM-COMS STILL TREAT THEIR GAY BT FRIENDS
- HOW GAY IS PIXAR’S LU?
- SORRY, FOLKS, PIXAR’S LU ISN’T GAY
- LAZY EYE ACTORS EXPLA THE ART OF FILMG GAY SEX
- I'M SORRY, BUT "LU" IS TOTALLY A GAY MOVIE, AND THE 18 TWEETS PROVE IT
- 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL': WHAT LUS GRABEEL SAID ABOUT RYAN EVANS BEG GAY
- NICKELOON STAR LUS 'FRED' CIKSHANK REVEALS HE'S GAY NEW VIO
DO DISNEY’S ‘LU’ HAVE A GAY CHARACTER?
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Lu is marketed as a "metaphor for anythg" but the sea monster setup is a perfect allegory for a gay story, and LGBTQ viewers n read that way. Lu has arrived on Disney+ and, spe what Pixar says, the movie prents a strong allegory for growg up gay and fdg a nnectn wh other LGBTQ people.
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LU MAY NOT BE A GAY NARRATIVE, BUT ’S ABSOLUTELY A QUEER ONE
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WA A SEC — ARE THE MA CHARACTERS PIXAR’S ‘LU’ GAY?
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So while Pixar ni Lu is a gay story due to s settg and the age of s characters, viewers should read the LGBTQ+ narrative for what is. Jt a ltle over halfway through Pri Month, we are seeg people flock to Twter to prent their theori on why and how the lead duo Disney and Pixar’s latt g-of-age animated feature film, Lu, is, fact, gay.
KIDS REACT STAR WHO WENT VIRAL FOR ANTI-GAY VIEWS IS NOW PRO-LGBT
A child who went viral 2013 for his anti-gay views on popular YouTube seri Kids React is now pro-LGBT+. * lucas becomes gay *
So do Lu have a gay character after all, or is this jt a se of fans creatg a headnon that’s gag tractn and onle clout? Do Lu have a gay character? While Disney has not e on the rerd sayg that Lu and Alberto are gay, we (and many a Twter er!
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So while no character Lu has been intified by Disney outright as gay, we n very well read the subtext, metaphors, and straight-up visual evince (all of those nocent touch! In rponse to viewers who reacted to trailers by hopg the film might be a childhood gay romance, Lu director Enri Casarosa rapidly shut the notn down, sayg “I was really keen to talk about a iendship before girliends and boyiends e to plite thgs.
THE PERFECT DATE SHOWS JT HOW BADLY ROM-COMS STILL TREAT THEIR GAY BT FRIENDS
“I regnize myself as existg on [a] spectm: Not totally straight, but also not gay and not necsarily bisexual," Hedg tells Vulture an hont new terview. * lucas becomes gay *
The Deep is portrayed as horrible place of self-nial, but they’re willg to make him suffer to keep him away om what they see as immoral, a clear parallel to the nversn therapy or wilrns therapy that so many young LGBTQ+ people are subjected to by homophobic muni.
HOW GAY IS PIXAR’S LU?
A heroe unknowgly fallg for her gay male iend has long been a movie trope — but To All the Boys is changg the narrative. * lucas becomes gay *
His rponse was simple: “I’d say is meant to be terpreted by the viewer […] If you thk Le is gay, of urse he is. ” Hal regnized that some people benefted om readg the character as gay, and acknowledged that there isn’t a sgle rrect terpretatn of Le. Wa a Sec — Are the Ma Characters Pixar’s ‘Lu’ Gay?
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SORRY, FOLKS, PIXAR’S LU ISN’T GAY
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I need to look up his recent works on Gay T0rr3nt and will get back to you when I get home, R4 + Anonymoreply 13November 5, 2020 9:39 PM. A child who went viral 2013 for his anti-gay views on popular YouTube seri Kids React is now pro-LGBT+.
When he was five years old, Lus Daniel Vazquez rpond to a vio about same-sex weddg proposals by sayg that he would dump a gay iend if they me out. I mean, you n get married like that, but gay, you n’t get married, ” before tellg the dience: “Gay is bad for you.
LAZY EYE ACTORS EXPLA THE ART OF FILMG GAY SEX
"High School Mil" director Kenny Ortega has revealed that the character Ryan Evans was gay–but actor Lus Grabeel has been mre ut the past when talkg about the character's sexualy * lucas becomes gay *
this kid’s change of opn on the LGBT muny & gay marriage is GROWTH. — ᴘᴇᴛᴇʀ (@AriHomo) March 5, 2019. As Lus bshed his tears away, he add: “I hate when people that are gay and lbian… say that they’re different—they’re not really different.
He then opened up about the vio om 2013, sayg: “I feel like the people who don’t like gay people and everythg else—’s probably bee they didn’t learn when they were young. And I do remember when I was young, I did a gay vio, ” he add. Inter Boyiend Noah Centeo’s latt Netflix rom-, The Perfect Date, is full of the faiar clichés, cludg the sneaky soulmate hidg pla sight, the histrnic breakup at prom, and another rom- staple that isn’t all that fortg: the Gay Bt know this trope.
The Gay Bt Friend is the sikick who exists for edic relief and solely to advance the plot of their straight BFF. The ’00s brought Christian Cluels, Stanford Sex and the Cy, and Brandon Easy the current post-femist, supposedly woke rom- rurgence era, which I am eternally grateful for, the Gay Bt Friend trope endur.
I'M SORRY, BUT "LU" IS TOTALLY A GAY MOVIE, AND THE 18 TWEETS PROVE IT
Actor, edian and YouTube star Lus Cikshank, whose childlike character Fred Figglehorn was turned to a anchise by Nickeloon, has ma a new vio which he reveals he is gay.Stg down to a qutn and answer ssn bed wh his iend, actrs Jennifer Veal a new vio posted on Cikshank's channel, the 19-year-old told the mera, "I'm gay." It was clearly a planned eve * lucas becomes gay *
Wh the box-office succs of 2018’s Love, Simon, a perfect teen romance that fally starred a gay lead character, or the upg Billy Eichner gay rom- produced by Judd Apatow, there is some progrs beg ma, but that don’t mean straight rom-s no longer have to be held acuntable for their gay characters. In Set It Up, one of Netflix’s many 2018 rom-rom offergs, he plays Charlie’s (Glen Powell) gay roommate Dunn. He’s a gay jock.
'HIGH SCHOOL MIL': WHAT LUS GRABEEL SAID ABOUT RYAN EVANS BEG GAY
In part one of our five-part seri, ABC News' Brian Ross meets two gay teens who say that they were forced by their parents to attend programs tryg to change their sexual orientatn. * lucas becomes gay *
That’s the films that do away wh one of rom-’s most persistent quali (whe leads), we’re still left wh one big regrsive plot pot (unrveloped gay sikicks).
In To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, one of the boys Lara Jean loved turns out to be gay, and while Lus be Lara Jean’s tsted iend and nfidant for the rt of the film, his role is to be LJ’s soundg is another Black GBF, and while his cln may seem like a good look for reprentatn — and the filmmakers’ may have had the bt of tentns — feels hollow when his sole purpose is to prop up other characters.
Dismantlg the rctive Gay Bt Friend trope is not a new nversatn.
NICKELOON STAR LUS 'FRED' CIKSHANK REVEALS HE'S GAY NEW VIO
The stereotype is so well known, the rom- parody film Isn’t It Romantic had a nng gag about how gay characters are portrayed. The problem: s sole gay character didn’t have any pth, eher. Isn’t It Romantic jt rerced the ia that gay people rom-s aren’t as servg as their own, rom- sikicks, regardls of race, genr or sexual orientatn, have always been bshed asi for bigger storyl (see “quirky BFF” rol played the ’90s and ’00s by Judy Greer and Kathryn Hahn) but silg queer characters as the Gay Bt Friend is damagg bee we know that LGBTQ+ reprentatn Hollywood is still severely lackg.
There’s an argument to be ma that at least the movi have openly gay characters at all, sce we know how rare that is, but we should aim higher than jt g the rol as glorified props. The Gay Bt Friend character n be done right, like Gee My Bt Friend’s Weddg (a film ahead of s time) who turns out to be the unlikely hero of the film, or Sam 2018’s Blockers who gets her own g-of-age story as she wrtl wh her sexualy and losg her virgy on prom night wh a scery rarely afford to teen girls on screen or gay characters, let alone both.