‘Lightyear’ Rtor Same-Sex Kiss Amid Uproar Over Don’t Say Gay – IndieWire

Contents:

• 'LIGHTYEAR' STAR CHRIS EVANS RPONDS TO CRICS OF THE PIXAR MOVIE'S GAY KISS SCENE: 'THOSE PEOPLE ARE IDTS'
• ‘LIGHTYEAR’ SAME-SEX KISS RTORED AMID PIXAR BACKLASH TO DISNEY’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ SUPPORT
• 'LIGHTYEAR' STAR CHRIS EVANS LLS CRICS OF DISNEY PIXAR'S GAY KISSG SCENE ‘IDTS’
• SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
• OKLAHOMA THEATER POSTED ‘LIGHTYEAR’ GAY KISS WARNG: WE’LL TRY TO FAST-FORWARD THROUGH IT
• DISNEY WILL RTORE GAY KISS TO LIGHTYEAR FOLLOWG “DON’T SAY GAY” BACKLASH
• LIGHTYEAR PRODUCER EXPLAS IMPORTANCE OF RTORG THE FILM'S GAY KISS

'LIGHTYEAR' STAR CHRIS EVANS RPONDS TO CRICS OF THE PIXAR MOVIE'S GAY KISS SCENE: 'THOSE PEOPLE ARE IDTS'

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.

‘LIGHTYEAR’ SAME-SEX KISS RTORED AMID PIXAR BACKLASH TO DISNEY’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ SUPPORT

A first look at Disney and Pixar's "Lightyear" on Wednday nfirmed a same-sex kiss had been rtored followg recent kiss occurred the first 30 mut of the movie, which was shown to an dience Wednday at CemaCon, acrdg to kiss was reportedly removed and then restated after backlash over the lack of rponse om Disney over Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill. A first look at Disney Pixar's "Lightyear" nfirmed that a same-sex kiss scene had been rtored to the film followg ntroversy over Disney's lack of rponse to Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill. The moment occurs between the character Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) and her partner the animated 'S SHORT FILM ‘OUT’ FEATURES FIRST GAY MAIN CHARACTERThe "Lightyear" character isn't the first LGBTQ-oriented character a Pixar most proment character is a cyclops police officer named Specter featured the animated film "Onward.

"CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER The move after a letter om Pixar employe acced Disney executiv of mandg cuts om "nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn, " acrdg to a letter sent to the pany by the employe. (Getty Imag)The rtoratn of the same-sex kiss after employe at Pixar acced Disney of censorg same-sex affectn Pixar executiv have wanted to cut "nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn… regardls of when there is prott om both the creative teams and executive learship at Pixar, " acrdg to a letter om the employe sent to Disney and obtaed by Variety.

' | Cred: Pixar News that Disney had removed s first on-screen same-sex kiss me amid reports that the pany had donated large sums of money to Florida policians supportg the "Don't Say Gay" bill, which stat, part, that nversatns around sexual orientatn and genr inty "may not occur krgarten through gra 3.

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

Homosexualy is nsired crimal many Middle Eastern untri.

But she said filmmakers would not make chang to the has rejected other on-screen pictns of homosexualy the past. "In early March, Disney employe acced executiv of cuttg "nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn" om Pixar films.

The statement, obtaed by Variety, was part of a larger backlash om Disney employe rponse to the pany's handlg of Florida's "Parental Rights Edutn" bill, which has been referred to as the "Don't Say Gay" bill by opponents. Dependg on where you get your news om or what social media algorhm you’ve ctomized, ’s eher a woke virtue signal tryg to turn kids gay or a progrsive triumph over nservatism.

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

So I told them about the ntroversy and the scene and we lghed about how dumb the homophob are all the way home. “It’s not bad to be gay. You jt don’t want gay people to for the rerd, spe all the warngs of the gay agenda om nservative media, no one my fay turned to a 60-year-old lbian upon watchg this scene.

There’s also a robot t wh a funny accent, to balance out the needlsly meta Giv ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill the Fger, Rtor Same-Sex Kiss ‘Lightyear’Dpe all that sills, the UAE’s Media Regulatory Office announced that will not screen the film the untry. Doctor Strange troduc gay teen Ameri Chavez, played by Xochl Gomez, and Eternals featur a queer uple as well as the anchise’s first openly gay superhero, year’s Wt Si Story remake, also om Disney, was barred om release untri such as Sdi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwa due to the addn of a transgenr character, Anybodys, played by nonbary actor Iris Menas.

OKLAHOMA THEATER POSTED ‘LIGHTYEAR’ GAY KISS WARNG: WE’LL TRY TO FAST-FORWARD THROUGH IT

Wh homosexualy illegal across the Middle East, basilly any films featurg overt LGBTQ+ ntent are at risk of censorship. In March, a group of unnamed LGBTQ+ Pixar employe and alli wrote a letter llg out Disney for cuttg “nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn. ” This was an pecially bad look the ntext of Disney and CEO Bob Chapek’s ial silence on Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” that the scene has been restated, will make history as the first time Pixar’s has clud a same-sex kiss a film.

’s stance on the homophobic Florida bill dubbed “Don’t Say Gay. Disney was cricized for fancially backg Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which prohibs “classroom discsn about sexual orientatn or genr inty” Florida primary schools. Amid the “Don’t Say Gay” backlash, Pixar employe issued a statement on March 9 cg that “Disney rporate reviews” set out to dimish LGBTQ+ storyl at Pixar.

DISNEY WILL RTORE GAY KISS TO LIGHTYEAR FOLLOWG “DON’T SAY GAY” BACKLASH

While simultaneoly fundg anti-gay legislatn. “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 read.

"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. 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.

LIGHTYEAR PRODUCER EXPLAS IMPORTANCE OF RTORG THE FILM'S GAY KISS

: 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 Evans' Buzz is more fantastic than plastic Pixar's spiffy 'Lightyear'“What this film do is handle love and those stori the way that they should be, that they are not the totaly of a person, ” Aduba tells USA TODAY. ':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.

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.