'Passag' director nounc 'dangero' NC-17 ratg on a film pictg a gay love story

Contents:

• SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
• CHRIS EVANS SLAMS CRICS OF GAY UPLE ‘LIGHTYEAR’: ‘THOSE PEOPLE ARE IDTS’
• EXPLORG THE CONTROVERSIAL GAY KISS LIGHTYEAR: A COMPREHENSIVE GUI WH STATS AND SOLUTNS [KEYWORD]
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

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

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. 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. : 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. ': 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.

CHRIS EVANS SLAMS CRICS OF GAY UPLE ‘LIGHTYEAR’: ‘THOSE PEOPLE ARE IDTS’

Playg a character like Alisha a high-profile movie the wake of “Don’t Say Gay” and other siar legislatn “means everythg, ” Aduba adds.

On March 9, LGBTQ employe and alli at Pixar Animatn Studs sent a jot statement to Walt Disney Company learship claimg that Disney executiv had actively censored “overtly gay affectn” s feature films.

The stunng allegatn — ma as part of a larger prott over the pany’s lack of public rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill — did not clu which Pixar films had weathered the censorship, nor which specific creative cisns were cut or altered. 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. The most overtly LGBTQ project Pixar’s non is a 2020 short film, “Out, ” about a gay man stgglg wh g out to his parents — which the stud released on Disney Pl as part of s SparkShorts program.

EXPLORG THE CONTROVERSIAL GAY KISS LIGHTYEAR: A COMPREHENSIVE GUI WH STATS AND SOLUTNS [KEYWORD]

“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 statement says. Disney and Pixar have received substantial attentn over the past months after employe alleged that rporate executiv cut “nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn” recent films, “regardls of when there is prott om both the creative teams and executive learship at Pixar. Ron DeSantis’ ntroversial “Parental Rights Edutn” bill, or, as many lled , the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

Strange World, g this November, will feature the first-ever gay teen romance, and Disney+ currently boasts an entire “pri” llectn on s streamg service.

The moment would be is until Disney, which had recently donated to Florida lawmakers, beme embroiled ntroversy over the state’s Parental Rights Edutn law — dubbed the “don’t say gay” legislatn by opponents — that lims classroom discsn of genr and sexual orientatn krgarten through third gra.

He said Disney’s “biggt impact” om “creatg a more clive world” through the pany’s ntroversy prompted a statement om “the LGBTQIA+ employe of Pixar, and their alli, ” Variety reported, that said part that Disney executiv sisted on ntent cuts “nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn … regardls of when there is prott om both the creative teams and executive learship at Pixar.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

“Out, ” a ne-mute short film that the stud released on Disney Pl 2020 as part of s SparkShorts seri, spotlights a gay relatnship and clus the stud’s first same-sex kiss. The timate moment is between Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry) — the Marvel Cematic Universe’s first openly gay superhero on the big screen — and hband Ben (Haaz Sleiman).

” Director Bill Condon promised a “nice, exclively gay moment” volvg Gaston’s sikick, LeFou (Josh Gad); there are hts about his sexualy sprkled across the movie before he danc wh a man at film’s end. This year, Gad said the film “didn’t go far enough to warrant aclas, ” addg: “It was never tend to be a moment that we should ld ourselv for, bee ankly, I don’t thk we did jtice to what a real gay character a Disney film should be.

Disney’s “Eternals, ” “Wt Si Story” and “Doctor Strange the Multiverse of Madns” did not screen the Gulf regn bee of “scen volvg LGBTQ referenc or topics, which often fall foul of censors for theatril releas due to homosexualy beg officially illegal across the regn, ” the Hollywood Reporter Disney’s trends, more LGBTQ reprentatn uld be right on the 2017, Tsa Thompson told Rollg Stone that Valkyrie, her Asgardian character Disney/Marvel’s “Thor: Ragnarok, ” had a scene cut that would have nfirmed Valkyrie’s bisexualy. 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.