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• IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE? MAYBE

IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE? MAYBE

That outle holds an obv potential for queer allegory, and ed many Pixar fans trackg the film’s velopment quickly labeled Lu as the stud’s “gay movie”—a g-out story to be placed on Pixar’s mantle alongsi s medatns on grief, artistic exprsn, lonels, Ayn Rand-ian objectivism, and parentg. ” That suggts a limed unrstandg of gay growg up, particularly of when our feelgs of affectn and special closens and difference n first velop. That character, played tartly but briefly by John McCrea, is slightly ls of a scrap than the embarrassgly ballyhooed “exclively gay moment” 2017’s Bety and the Beast—but Artie still barely registered amid Cella’s cynil clamor.

Last year, Disney punted Love, Victor—a seri spoff of the feature film Love, Simon, the first stud film about a gay kid g out—om Disney+ to Hulu, clarg the young adult show a better f for that more grownup streamg service. Greg Gayne/HuluThe first season of Love, Victor very much felt like a show tend for Disney+ that somehow wound up alongsi Handmaid’s Tale.

Love, Victor season two admirably exam life post-g out, as Victor (Michael Cimo) navigat his nascent relatnship wh barista Benji (Gee Sear) and tri to get his mother, Isabel (Ana Ortiz, queen of playg TV moms of gay kids), to fully accept his inty. Victor and Benji grapple wh tra-gay nflicts jt as much as they do wh the wary nsiratns of the straight world. Eric (Chris Stafford) experiments wh a hot -worker (Anrsen Gabrych) — and wh a pretty tragic blond fds a home at a gay bar n by Angie (Lea DeLaria) and toys wh the affectn of his bt iend Maggie (Ta Holm).

Co-wrer Todd Stephens went on to wre and direct the rnch-romp Another Gay Movie and s sequel. But I'm a Cheerlear (1999) The jok — like the movie — are bright, kschy and broad (like, RuPl plays a man who leads an ex-gay terventn, is how broad).

Natasha Lyonne stars as a young woman sent to gay nversn therapy mp. Willett) outs himself at school, makg the three most popular girls clamor for him to be their Gay Bt Friend. Tanner's iendship wh his fellow gay stunt Brent (Pl Iano) is severely tted.

When Matty tells Michael he's gay, Michael go overboard tryg to unrstand.

Not tly a g-out movie — Billy's a rare gay teen protagonist, that he's pletely fortable his sk at the outset — but do tackle a lot of the them (bullyg, the search for acceptance) the above films, and Love, Simon as well. From the out director of Mudbound and Bsie, Dee Re's first feature film, about 17-year-old Alike (Apero Oduye) g to terms wh beg a lbian the face of her homophobic mother (Kim Wayans), is often grty and tough to watch. Greg Berlanti -- gay producer and director extraordaire behd the CW's super-queer slate of TV shows om Supergirl to Riverdale -- livered the mastream g-out movie LGBTQ dienc have been wag for wh Love, Simon, about a closeted gay teen who falls love wh an anonymo gay boy, "Blue, " via a seri of emails.

As Simon (Nick Robson) search for the inty of his onle paramour, he to terms wh beg gay, g out to his iends and his ultimately supportive fay (Jennifer Garner and Josh Duhamel play his parents) the romantic edy that boasts a killer soundtrack. But out director Jamie Babb's satiril But I'm a Cheerlear, which Orange Is the New Black's Natasha Lyonne plays Megan, a lbian cheerlear sent to a nversn therapy mp n by the very mpy Cathy Moriarty and RuPl (of all people), has been the gold standard of "ex-gay" movi for s.

Daniel Doheny plays Alex, a straight-A stunt wh the perfect girliend (Male Weste), who disvers his gay inty when he meets and bonds wh an out gay guy, Elltt (Anton Marziale), at a party.