Pixar's Lightyear Rtor Same-Sex Kiss After Don't Say Gay Uproar - Variety

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• '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.

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

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

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.

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

But she said filmmakers would not make chang to the has rejected other on-screen pictns of homosexualy the past.

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

"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.

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.

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

Wh homosexualy illegal across the Middle East, basilly any films featurg overt LGBTQ+ ntent are at risk of censorship.

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

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.

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.