Do Disney’s 'Lu' Have a Gay Character?

Contents:

• HOW GAY IS PIXAR’S LU?
• DO DISNEY’S ‘LU’ HAVE A GAY CHARACTER?
• IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE? MAYBE
• I'M SORRY, BUT "LU" IS TOTALLY A GAY MOVIE, AND THE 18 TWEETS PROVE IT
• LU VISMARA GAY? IL NTANTE FA CHIAREZZA SUL SUO ORIENTAMENTO
• LU VISMARA A “È LA PRIMA VOLTA CHE PARLO L M ORIENTAMENTO SSUALE” – INTERVISTA

HOW GAY IS PIXAR’S LU?

Lu is marketed as a "metaphor for anythg" but the sea monster setup is a perfect allegory for a gay story, and LGBTQ viewers n read that way.

Lu has arrived on Disney+ and, spe what Pixar says, the movie prents a strong allegory for growg up gay and fdg a nnectn wh other LGBTQ people. This elis the fact that beg gay, queer, or LGBTQ+ is not simply a matter of partners or relatnships or sex. Young gay people often feel very different om others before such feelgs velop, which n occur squarely the age bracket the story plac Lu and Alberto.

DO DISNEY’S ‘LU’ HAVE A GAY CHARACTER?

In the ments, Casarosa is enuragg such terpretatn, meang that, if you see there, Lu is a gay story, Pixar's first feature film wh LGBTQ+ leads. The parallels of the boys secretly beg sea monsters and gay and LGBTQ+ people beg forced to hi their inti cuts closer than other mory groups, ratnalizg a queer readg of the movie.

So while Pixar ni Lu is a gay story due to s settg and the age of s characters, viewers should read the LGBTQ+ narrative for what is.

IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE? MAYBE

Mas, afal, Lu é um personagem gay? A Disney não clarou oficialmente a homossexualida Lu e Alberto, porém, muos fãs acredam que as grans ment da Pixar pom ter ializado o roteiro o uma metáfora para a aceação do amor entre psoas do mmo gênero. A nversa da avó Lu a mãe le é um dos momentos mais entados pelos fãs do filme para provar que Lu é um personagem gay.

Portanto, embora nenhum personagem do filme tenha sido intifido o gay, os pectador pom entenr o subtexto, as metáforas e as evidências visuais diretas prent no filme o uma reprentação sutil do florcimento uma relação entre dois menos. When director Enri Casarosa says he didn’t tend to make Lu a gay romance, I believe him.

I'M SORRY, BUT "LU" IS TOTALLY A GAY MOVIE, AND THE 18 TWEETS PROVE IT

OK, but isn’t still a ltle b gay? Still, there have been so many siar discsns about queer inty Disney movi that you n almost predict the disurse ahead of time: “They’re gay! ” “But why do they have to be gay?

LU VISMARA GAY? IL NTANTE FA CHIAREZZA SUL SUO ORIENTAMENTO

” “But why n’t they be gay? For both live-actn and animated movi, the stud has overhyped what have bee known as “exclively gay moments, ” ty morsels of reprentatn that are eher so subtle you hardly notice them (a kiss between two women the background of a Star Wars movie) or so plot-irrelevant that they n be easily chopped or overlooked by ternatnal censors (here’s lookg at you, Endgame’s unnamed Grievg Man).

LU VISMARA A “È LA PRIMA VOLTA CHE PARLO L M ORIENTAMENTO SSUALE” – INTERVISTA

Meanwhile, while Disney has ngratulated self and claimed to blaze new trails, plenty of other animatn studs have been ahead of them: Laika’s ParaNorman, for example, featured an openly gay character way back 2012. Ironilly, the Disney movie that gave the term “exclively gay moment” the first place took a different tack: The live-actn Bety and the Beast’s LeFou is more the spir of the stud’s long-standg tradn of strongly queer-d, if not explicly gay, villas.

Fans have sce picked up on homoerotic unrton Raya and the Last Dragon and the live-actn Mulan, but the movi rema rabow Rorschach tts, wh dienc havg to read between the l or project their own meangs to fd queer reprentatn. How gay is ? Whatever the director’s stated tent, the answer seems to be: as gay as you want to be.

Jt a ltle over halfway through Pri Month, we are seeg people flock to Twter to prent their theori on why and how the lead duo Disney and Pixar’s latt g-of-age animated feature film, Lu, is, fact, gay.