Ellen DeGener lghs over possible 'Fdg Dory' gay uple

Contents:

• DO 'FDG DORY' SHOW A GAY UPLE? WE ASKED THE FILMMAKERS
• DO 'FDG DORY' SHOW A GAY UPLE?
• ELLEN DEGENER LGHS OVER POSSIBLE 'FDG DORY' GAY UPLE
• 'FDG DORY' MISS OPPORTUNY TO FEATURE PIXAR'S FIRST GAY COUPLE
• DO ‘FDG DORY’ FEATURE A GAY COUPLE? FANS ARE BUZZG ON SOCIAL MEDIA (VIO)
• FDG DORY FEATUR DISNEY’S FIRST GAY UPLE
• ‘FDG DORY’ MISS OPPORTUNY TO FEATURE PIXAR’S FIRST GAY COUPLE
• DO 'FDG DORY' SHOW A GAY UPLE?

DO 'FDG DORY' SHOW A GAY UPLE? WE ASKED THE FILMMAKERS

There's no nclive evince one way or ll for Disney (which owns Pixar and Marvel) to clu lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr characters has gathered momentum recent months. Abrams said he was was asked if he uld "image a homosexual character  Star Wars, and my immediate reactn was, 'Of urse. Rather, the keen-eyed theorist suggts that one of the animal upl the male volno is seen admirg om afar is openly gay.

Y, and fact que a lot of people are super-extra-exced by the trailer, bee they thk shows a gay uple, which would be a first for Disney or Pixar do they thk this?

But would be a big al if was nclive bee ually gay characters are gay only dly, like ’s somethg to be ashamed of. I don’t thk they were dly gay fact. Photograph: PixarBut if no one’s seen the film yet, how do we know that the women are clearly gay?

DO 'FDG DORY' SHOW A GAY UPLE?

Maybe they’re on their way to an anti-gay rally?

Although would make a kd of sense them beg gay, sce DeGener herself played such a big role the gay rights story. And the excement about is a sign of the hunger out there to ntue gay people’s journey to the mastream by cludg them kids’ films.

ELLEN DEGENER LGHS OVER POSSIBLE 'FDG DORY' GAY UPLE

You’re beg icthyonormative say: “Wa, wasn’t Ken Toy Story 3 gay? ”Don’t say: “He’s more of a mixture of bisexual and homophobic. The origal was seen by right-wgers to be phg a “gay agenda”, wh one pastor llg a “very evil” another year of poor LGBT reprentatn by all studs, Glaad has urged Hollywood to improve diversy.

'FDG DORY' MISS OPPORTUNY TO FEATURE PIXAR'S FIRST GAY COUPLE

Of the 126 major stud releas last year, only 22 featured gay characters, amountg to 17. Disney has been known to be a very progrsive pany (havg brought the first openly gay s character to work televisn 1997 on the Ellen show) but they have recently e unr fire om GLADD for not featurg even one gay character the 11 feature films they released last year.

There is no nyg , there is a lack of reprentatn of gay characters Disney's big screen movi. Fans recently petned the stud to give Elsa a girliend Frozen 2, GLAAD lled upon the stud to clu LGBT characters the Star Wars universe while the filmmakers and producers at Marvel have been very enuragg of the ia of brgg an openly gay character to the MCU.

And while we might have to wa a b longer to see an openly gay major character one of those univers, I was happy to see what might be a lbian uple this morng's Fdg Dory trailer.

DO ‘FDG DORY’ FEATURE A GAY COUPLE? FANS ARE BUZZG ON SOCIAL MEDIA (VIO)

Fdg Dory voice actrs Ellen DeGener has been openly gay for almost two s at this pot and has been a vol advote of gay rights and a lear the gay muny.

Polls have shown that DeGener has fluenced gay rights more than any other celebry. We ask the filmmakers behd 'Fdg Dory' whether or not the film featur a gay uple as the ter seems to believe. I thk people assume anyone wh a bad short haircut is gay.

LOS ANGELES () - For a brief moment, looked like Pixar had fally ma history by offerg up the first gay character a Disney animated film.

FDG DORY FEATUR DISNEY’S FIRST GAY UPLE

It would have been long overdue after 16 prev Pixar films had been populated exclively by acrdg to our spi at an early screeng, “Fdg Dory” don’t break any gay glass ceilgs. )Agast a natnal -- and ternatnal -- nversatn about the lack of diversy Hollywood, gay characters are barely granted speakg rol movi.

‘FDG DORY’ MISS OPPORTUNY TO FEATURE PIXAR’S FIRST GAY COUPLE

(Disney and Paramount were the only studs wh movi that didn’t feature a sgle gay character. )This seems starkly out of touch wh advancements society for the gay and transgenr muny. Jt last summer, the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage the Uned Stat.

“Fdg Dory” might feature the voice of Ellen DeGener, who beme the first lbian TV star to e out of the closet 1997, but jos the rt of the summer blockbters that ignore the LGBT Sger ed to fe his “X-Men” films wh a gay subtext (the mutants had to “e out” to iends and fay), but that’s not a theme of the latt stallment.

DO 'FDG DORY' SHOW A GAY UPLE?

There’s yet to be a gay Marvel star the “Capta Ameri, ” “Iron Man” or “Avengers” anchis.

Last Febary’s “Deadpool, ” the lone ic book hero who is pansexual, still only had sex wh Andrew Garfield suggted that Spir-Man uld be gay, Sony Pictur quietly put the lid on that ia -- and stead rebooted the character as a high school stunt. For all the talk about the men (or even women) who uld play Jam Bond, there weren’t any headl about gay actors who uld portray him (although Rupert Everett suggted the ia 1999).

In fact, as bad as #OsrsSoWhe has been for not regnizg any actors of lor for two nsecutive years, the last openly gay actor nomated for an Amy Award was more than a ago: Ian McKellen for playg a wizard 2001’s “Lord of the Rgs.