Report: Disney To Inclu Gay Relatnship In Lightyear Movie - Boundg Into Comics

Contents:

• 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
• TOY STORY SP-OFF LIGHTYEAR ‘HAD SAME-SEX KISS CUT AND THEN RTORED BY DISNEY’ AFTER DON’T SAY GAY BACKLASH
• REPORT: DISNEY TO INCLU GAY RELATNSHIP IN LIGHTYEAR MOVIE
• DISNEY RTOR SAME-GENR ‘LIGHTYEAR’ KISS FOLLOWG “DON’T SAY GAY” BACKLASH

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

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. 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.

TOY STORY 4 BEG BOYTTED OVER SUBTLE GAY BACKGROUND CHARACTERS

"Jack Whehall will play Disney's first openly gay character the upg movie Jungle Cise, based on the popular theme park ri. The move followed a a strongly-word letter to Walt Disney CEO Bob Chapek om Pixar's LGBTQIA+ employe and their alli sent objectg to his cisn not to ph back more forcefully agast Florida's ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill.

Acrdg to Variety, the film has been banned the Gulf natns of Sdi Arabia, the Uned Arab Emirat and Kuwa, where homosexual nduct is still illegal.

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.

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

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. ' The letter claims that 'nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn' had been cut, spe 'prott om both the creative teams and executive learship.

REPORT: DISNEY TO INCLU GAY RELATNSHIP IN LIGHTYEAR MOVIE

' The Pixar staff also mand that Disney whdraw fancial support of all legislatur who supported the 'Don't Say Gay' bill and that Disney 'take a cisive public stand' agast the legislatn and bills like elsewhere the is noted for only featurg a ty number of LGBTQ characters their most famo to date is Specter, a cyclops police officer 2020 fantasy film Onward, voiced by Lena Wahe. Demonstrators are seen si the Florida State Capal Tallahassee on Monday, the day before the bill passed Specter, top right, is one of the few gay characters Pixar films - but her sexualy is only mentned passg Bucky and Pronk Oryx-Antlerson, om the 2016 Disney animated feature film Zootopia, were 'outed' by the actors who voiced them. 'The same year, Pixar released a short film, Out, on Disney+, about a gay man who stggl wh g out to his lists curate the number of gay characters Disney: Fans pot out that the actors who voiced Bucky and Pronk Oryx-Antlerson the 2016 animated feature film Zootopia said the characters were a gay uple, and Disney did not ny also note that Fdg Dory and Toy Story 4 both featured, briefly, lbian mothers - but their characters were so mor they were not named.

DISNEY RTOR SAME-GENR ‘LIGHTYEAR’ KISS FOLLOWG “DON’T SAY GAY” BACKLASH

In regards to Disney's fancial volvement wh legislators behd the 'Don't Say Gay' bill, we hoped that our pany would show up for . Nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn is cut at Disney's beht, regardls of when there is prott om both the creative teams and executive learship at Pixar. Beyond the 'spirg ntent' that we aren't even allowed to create, we require are llg on Disney learship to immediately whdraw all fancial support om the legislators behd the 'Don't Say Gay' bill, to fully nounce this legislatn publicly, and to make amends for their fancial volvement.

'The Human Rights Campaign - the largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer civil rights anizatn the U. 'Disney has been unr prsure to take a public stand agast the legislatn that crics say will harm the lbian, gay, transgenr and queer muny. The Florida legislatn, referred to by s opponents as the 'Don't Say Gay' bill, has stirred natnal ntroversy amid an creasgly partisan bate over what schools should teach children about race and genr.

'You n't stand on the sil when to human rights, ' she Disney CEO said he had an 'extraordary nversatn' wh DeSantis, who assured Chapek that the law would not be 'weaponized any way' or ed to harm or target gay, lbian, non-bary or transgenr kids or their fai. 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. 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.”.