Same-Sex Kiss In Toy Story's Lightyear Movie Rtored After Staff Uproar Over "Don't Say Gay" Bill - GameSpot

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• TOY STORY SP-OFF LIGHTYEAR ‘HAD SAME-SEX KISS CUT AND THEN RTORED BY DISNEY’ AFTER DON’T SAY GAY BACKLASH
• DISNEY RESTAT GAY KISSG SCENE BETWEEN TWO FEMALE CHARACTERS ON PIXAR'S 'TOY STORY' SPOFF
• TOY STORY 4 BEG BOYTTED OVER SUBTLE GAY BACKGROUND CHARACTERS
• SAME-SEX KISS IN TOY STORY'S LIGHTYEAR MOVIE RTORED AFTER STAFF UPROAR OVER "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL

TOY STORY SP-OFF LIGHTYEAR ‘HAD SAME-SEX KISS CUT AND THEN RTORED BY DISNEY’ AFTER DON’T SAY GAY BACKLASH

More:Disney CEO fally speaks out on 'Don't Say Gay. ' But where's the gay Disney fairy tale? The same-sex kiss first ma headl last month, when Pixar animators spoke out agast Disney an open letter obtaed by Variety, sayg that rporate executiv had mand cuts "om nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn.

But was later rtored light of Disney's "Don't Say Gay" ntroversy, when was revealed the pany had donated roughly $200, 000 to Republin policians who supported the bill, which forbids discsns of sexual orient elementary school classrooms. "Other live-actn Disney films have relegated queer characters to the background, like a blk-and-you'll-miss- kiss between two women "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, " or the "exclively gay moment" of Josh Gad's LeFou dancg wh another man "Bety and the Beast.

DISNEY RESTAT GAY KISSG SCENE BETWEEN TWO FEMALE CHARACTERS ON PIXAR'S 'TOY STORY' SPOFF

Disney removed a same-sex kissg scene om the upg Toy Story stallment Lightyear, but an uproar om artists at Emeryville-based Pixar got that gay kiss right back to the animated feature film. The story of how that kiss got to the film — and then got back to the film after Disney’s censors cut — is s own Toy Story story about the advancg anti-gay and anti-trans legislatn ntemporary Ameri, and how Pixar’s employe were termed to not let those efforts dilute the story they hoped to tell.

But we do know that Variety reported on March 9 that LGBTQ employe at Emeryville-based Pixar sent an angry statement to Disney cryg that the pany has cut “nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn” om the films Pixar has ntext, this was jt days after Disney CEO Bob Chapek was wily cricized by Disney employe for the pany’s silence on Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, a stance he reerated an ternal meetg wh Disney LGBTQ employe.

TOY STORY 4 BEG BOYTTED OVER SUBTLE GAY BACKGROUND CHARACTERS

“Followg the uproar surroundg the Pixar employe’ statement and Disney CEO Bob Chapek’s handlg of the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, however, the kiss was restated to the movie last week, ” Variety n argue whether this really is Disney’s first same-sex kiss. Chris Evans will voice Buzz the new prequel (Picture: Disney)Disney has reportedly rtored a scene featurg a same-sex kiss to the Toy Story sp-off Lightyear, followg the outrage about Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill. LGBT employe and alli at Pixar are said to have sent a letter to Disney boss claimg that the pany had censored ‘overtly gay affectn’ s films.

Controversial anti-LGBT legislatn, also known as the Don’t Say Gay bill, was recently passed Florida, g outrage. MORE: Gabrielle Unn slams Disney over ntroversial ‘don’t say gay’ bill: ‘The damage is done’. And the live-actn Bety and the Beast, Gaston's flunky LeFou is seen dancg wh another man a scene director Bill Condon scribed as a "exclively gay moment.

"Jack Whehall will play Disney's first openly gay character the upg movie Jungle Cise, based on the popular theme park ri. Much like the micro-send “Poprn” am dropped surreptly to 1950s movi to subnscly persua theater patrons to make a vis to the ncsn stand, seems that subtle same-sex domtic moments are beg dropped to children’s vios an effort to ndn kids to accept homosexual behavr as normal — and even warm and zy.

SAME-SEX KISS IN TOY STORY'S LIGHTYEAR MOVIE RTORED AFTER STAFF UPROAR OVER "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL

In a high-five to Pixar and Disney, the pani rponsible for Toy Story 4, the edors at the UK’s Gay Tim reported that while the latt stallment of the adventur of Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and the rt of the Toy Story gang is “every b as magil and visually imprsive as we knew would be, one thg we didn’t expect to see was LGBTQ characters, no matter how signifint to the overall story they were.

The pro-homosexual news se go on to expla that at the very start of the film, “when Woody’s new owner Bonnie go for her first day of krgarten, there’s a blk-and-you’ll-miss- scene where one child is dropped off by two moms.

The example of pro-homosexual reprentatn was so small that not even the eagle-eyed reviewers at MovieGui ught . Disney is reportedly puttg a kissg scene between two women back to their upg 'Toy Story' spoff 'Lightyear' after Pixar employe acced the parent pany of cuttg gay characters om films. The dispute is the latt salvo fired by staff amid a row about the entertament giant's stance on gay rights as policians Florida attempt to pass a law that's bee rid as the 'Don't Say Gay' bill.