Disney's 'Lightyear' has a gay kiss, and is now banned or censored several untri | Fortune

Contents:

• PIXAR MOVIE LIGHTYEAR BANNED SEVERAL UNTRI BEE GAY
• REPORT: DISNEY TO INCLU GAY RELATNSHIP IN LIGHTYEAR MOVIE
• LIGHTYEAR: PIXAR RTOR SAME-SEX KISS FOLLOWG ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL BACKLASH
• 'LIGHTYEAR' STAR CHRIS EVANS LLS CRICS OF DISNEY PIXAR'S GAY KISSG SCENE ‘IDTS’
• NOLTE: DISNEY’S BIG, GAY ‘LIGHTYEAR’ IS THE LATT WOKE BOX OFFICE FLOP
• SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
• OKLAHOMA MOVIE THEATER POSTS 'WARNG' SIGN ABOUT 'LIGHTYEAR' GAY KISS, LOL CALLS THE MOVE 'BIGOTED'
• SAME-SEX KISS IN TOY STORY'S LIGHTYEAR MOVIE RTORED AFTER STAFF UPROAR OVER "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL

PIXAR MOVIE LIGHTYEAR BANNED SEVERAL UNTRI BEE GAY

Me unr fire for s ial silence regardg a Florida bill rtrictg classroom discsn of sexual orientatn and genr inty — dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” by crics. Durg the tumult, Pixar employe lled out Disney executiv for cuttg “nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn” om the animatn stud’s films.

Followg a year marked by turmoil wh s LGBTQ+ fan base and employe, Disney is releasg s first-ever movie that shows a gay kiss. Lightyear is not the first Disney film to be censored other untri for s pictn of gay characters. After ially refg to ment on Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, the pany faced a wave of cricism om employe and nsumers.

“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, ” their letter read. Beyond qutng s public stance, fans and employe also cricized Disney for donatg to Florida policians who supported the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

REPORT: DISNEY TO INCLU GAY RELATNSHIP IN LIGHTYEAR MOVIE

Deadle reports that the movie has been put on ice the untri, likely bee ntas a same-sex kiss between the character of Hawthorne, voiced by Uzo Aduba, and another one pot the edg procs, this kiss was removed om the film, but was restated followg Disney’s lewarm rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

Pixar was highly cril of Disney’s ial refal to take a stand on that bill, which bans mentn of homosexualy elementary school classrooms, the logic beg, I gus, that mentn of such a thg will rpt children beyond savg…cludg gay kids, I suppose. Eternals, for example, also featured a gay relatnship and was banned many of the same ’s willgns to be ever-so-slightly more bold may have somethg to do wh the fact that Cha basilly hasn’t screened any Disney movie wh s borrs sce 2019’s Avengers: Endgame; ’s unclear exactly why Cha has out for Disney right now — ’s black-balled everythg, both movi that allu glancgly to homosexualy and those that don’t — but the pany is losg out on a lot of money given the size of the Che market. A new report claims that The Walt Disney Company and Pixar will clu a gay relatnship their upg Lightyear film.

Along wh the claim that Disney prevly cut and are now cludg a gay kiss the film, Variety also ced anonymo sourc at Pixar claimg LGBTQ+ ntent their films had been cut.

LIGHTYEAR: PIXAR RTOR SAME-SEX KISS FOLLOWG ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL BACKLASH

“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, ” the employe claimed.

'LIGHTYEAR' STAR CHRIS EVANS LLS CRICS OF DISNEY PIXAR'S GAY KISSG SCENE ‘IDTS’

The stud clud a homosexual uple Toy Story 4.

NOLTE: DISNEY’S BIG, GAY ‘LIGHTYEAR’ IS THE LATT WOKE BOX OFFICE FLOP

The stud also produced a short lled Out featurg a gay man named Greg and his boyiend, Manuel.

What do you make of this report that claims Pixar will now be cludg a gay kiss that had allegedly been prevly cut om the film? Get our ee weekly email for all the latt cematic news om our film cric Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cematic email for eePixar has reportedly rtored a same-sex kiss shared between two characters the forthg Lightyear, after staff released an open letter cricisg Disney’s rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” new animated film featur Chris Evans as the voice of Buzz Lightyear and seeks to tell the orig story of the beloved Toy Story character and his journey to fy and an exclive report by Variety, a source close to the productn has nfirmed that a kiss between proment female character Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba) and her female partner was restated last week.

While the nature of the characters’ relatnship hadn’t been qutned by productn, their kiss had reportedly been news follows the release of an open letter on 9 March by Pixar staff and LGBTQ alli cricisg Disney for havg same-sex reprentatn s films “shaved down to cmbs” the letter, staff further lled on Disney to “immediately whdraw all fancial support om the legislators behd the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill” a handful of LGBTQ characters have been rporated Pixar’s feature films. Notably, 2020 film Onward, the ma character Specter mak a reference to her film featur Chris Evans as the voice of Buzz Lightyear (YouTube)The same year, the stud released short film Out, about a closeted gay man’s stggle to e out to his rponse to the Pixar staff letter, Out director Steven Hunt told Variety: “I stand by my lleagu. : It was ially cut om the film, then rtored after ternal uproar when was revealed Disney had donated $200, 000 to Republin policians who supported Florida's “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which forbids discsns of sexual orientatn elementary school Chris Evans' Buzz is more fantastic than plastic Pixar's spiffy 'Lightyear'The iendship between Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Chris Evans) and his manr Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) is at the heart of "Lightyear.

SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)

': Chris Evans on 'Lightyear, ' playg bad guys and beg 'a romantic person'In March, the kiss was rtored after Pixar animators spoke out agast Disney  an open letter obtaed by Variety, sayg executiv had mand cuts "om nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn.

Playg a character like Alisha a high-profile movie the wake of “Don’t Say Gay” and other siar legislatn “means everythg, ” Aduba adds. While there have been blk-and-you’ll-miss- queer moments prev Pixar outgs — the lbian uple Fdg Dory, for example -— ’s long sce time for a proment gay character or two one of the stud’s films. Homosexualy is nsired crimal many Middle Eastern untri.

OKLAHOMA MOVIE THEATER POSTS 'WARNG' SIGN ABOUT 'LIGHTYEAR' GAY KISS, LOL CALLS THE MOVE 'BIGOTED'

But she said filmmakers would not make chang to the has rejected other on-screen pictns of homosexualy the past. "Lightyear" actor Chris Evans, who plays the tular role Walt Disney’s new Pixar movie, has rpond to crics who say the film’s kissg scene between two female characters ph a pro-gay agenda. (Getty Imag)"Every time there’s been social advancement as we wake up, the Amerin story, the human story is one of nstant social awakeng and growth and that’s what mak good, " Evans 'S SHORT FILM ‘OUT’ FEATURES FIRST GAY MAIN CHARACTERThe ment as some crics of the film have argued the cisn to clu LGBTQ reprentatn and a scene wh a gay married uple kissg a film marketed to children was on-screen kiss tak place between Hawthorne, a female lead voiced by Uzo Aduba, and another female, PIXAR'S 'LIGHTYEAR' SEES SAME-SEX KISS RESTORED AMID CONTROVERSY WITH QUEER CHARACTER: REPORTIt was reportedly removed om the film earlier this year, amid ntroversy over Disney’s quietns over Florida’s "Don’t Say Gay" bill that barred nversatns about LGBTQ inty K-12 classrooms, Variety reported March of this year, cg "a source close to the productn.

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

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERIt will not be shown the Uned Arab Emirat or Malaysia, due to the on-screen gay kiss.