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• SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
• 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’
• LIGHTYEAR GETS WARNG SIGN FOR GAY KISS SCENE AT OKLAHOMA THEATER, SPARKG BACKLASH
• DISNEY WILL RTORE GAY KISS TO LIGHTYEAR FOLLOWG “DON’T SAY GAY” BACKLASH
• PIXAR'S LIGHTYEAR REPORTEDLY RTOR SAME-SEX KISS AFTER BACKLASH OVER CLAIMS THAT DISNEY CENSORS GAY ROMANCE FILMS
• 'LIGHTYEAR': DISNEY RTOR SCRAPPED GAY KISS FOLLOWG BACKLASH
• DISNEY HAS S FIRST GAY KISS
• DISNEY WON’T ALLOW GAY PEOPLE KISSG IN MOVI, PIXAR ANIMATORS SAY

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

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

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.

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

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.

LIGHTYEAR GETS WARNG SIGN FOR GAY KISS SCENE AT OKLAHOMA THEATER, SPARKG BACKLASH

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.

“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. 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.

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

"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. In the new Pixar animated film “Lightyear,” space ranger Buzz Lightyear works through a lot of character issu, though havg his bt iend’s back isn’t one of them: He not only knows and rpects his lbian manr Alisha’s sexualy but is exced to hear that she's found love while stuck on an alien pla.Many people the real world haven't been so supportive.A same-sex kiss "Lightyear" ( theaters Friday) between Alisha (voiced by Uzo Aduba) and her partner has ma ternatnal headl, as the Uned Arab Emirat this week banned the Disney movie om showg theaters bee of s cln and Disney self pulled the movie om Malaysian theaters after refg orrs for LGBTQ aspects to “be cut and muted."The scene ma wav earlier the U.S.: 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 classrooms.Review:Chris 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.

We took out the kiss bee we were asked to and we replaced wh, as Ang puts , ‘the awkward handhold.' "'I love love, who don't?':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." Filmmakers were glad to have "an opportuny to put back," Sman says. “It's a small moment and is treated as jt an ditor of the relatnship," she says.Playg a character like Alisha a high-profile movie the wake of “Don’t Say Gay” and other siar legislatn “means everythg,” Aduba adds.

' | 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.

PIXAR'S LIGHTYEAR REPORTEDLY RTOR SAME-SEX KISS AFTER BACKLASH OVER CLAIMS THAT DISNEY CENSORS GAY ROMANCE FILMS

A same-sex kiss scene was reportedly rtored to Pixar’s upg feature film “Lightyear” – a reversal that me days after top Disney brass faced tense cricism om some of the stud’s employe over their rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

'LIGHTYEAR': DISNEY RTOR SCRAPPED GAY KISS FOLLOWG BACKLASH

The abpt change followed the circulatn of a March 9 letter signed by “LGBTQIA+ employe of Pixar and their alli, ” who acced Disney executiv of censorg moments of “overtly gay affectn” their movi. Pixar employe had slammed Disney’s rponse to Florida’s ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill. “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 letter said.

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. "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.

DISNEY HAS S FIRST GAY KISS

(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.

But was rtored when the pany me unr fire for their rponse to the “Don’t Say Gay Bill” Florida. 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. Disney removed a same-sex kissg scene om the upg Toy Story stallment Lightyear, but an uproar om artists at Emeryville-based Pixar got that gay kiss right back to the animated feature film.

DISNEY WON’T ALLOW GAY PEOPLE KISSG IN MOVI, PIXAR ANIMATORS SAY

The story of how that kiss got to the film — and then got back to the film after Disney’s censors cut — is s own Toy Story story about the advancg anti-gay and anti-trans legislatn ntemporary Ameri, and how Pixar’s employe were termed to not let those efforts dilute the story they hoped to tell. But we do know that Variety reported on March 9 that LGBTQ employe at Emeryville-based Pixar sent an angry statement to Disney cryg that the pany has cut “nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn” om the films Pixar has ntext, this was jt days after Disney CEO Bob Chapek was wily cricized by Disney employe for the pany’s silence on Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, a stance he reerated an ternal meetg wh Disney LGBTQ employe.