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- LIGHTYEAR: PIXAR RTOR SAME-SEX KISS FOLLOWG ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL BACKLASH
- SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
- 'LIGHTYEAR' STAR CHRIS EVANS LLS CRICS OF DISNEY PIXAR'S GAY KISSG SCENE ‘IDTS’
LIGHTYEAR: PIXAR RTOR SAME-SEX KISS FOLLOWG ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL BACKLASH
The kiss was ially cut om the film, but rtored after was revealed the pany donated money to policians who supported a ntroversial ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill. * pixar lightyear homosexual *
: 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.
SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
Playg a character like Alisha a high-profile movie the wake of “Don’t Say Gay” and other siar legislatn “means everythg, ” Aduba adds. 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.
This was amidst the pany’s disappotg rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. At the time, Disney held a virtual all-hands meetg where Latoya Ravene, one of the pany’s executive producers, fend the Moe Hoe, sayg everyone had been welg to her “not-at-all-secret gay agenda. In addn to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which forbids tn on sexualy and genr inty krgarten through third gra classrooms and was signed by Governor Ron DeSantis late March, there are several other measur currently workg their way through state legislatur.
'LIGHTYEAR' STAR CHRIS EVANS LLS CRICS OF DISNEY PIXAR'S GAY KISSG SCENE ‘IDTS’
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.
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. 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.©Walt Disney Co./Courty Evere. “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.