Contents:
- NEW MOVIE ON DISNEY+ IS FIRST PIXAR FILM TO EVER FEATURE A GAY CHARACTER
- ‘STRANGE WORLD’ IS DISNEY’S FIRST ANIMATED MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD. WHY IS IT BEG BURIED?
- DISNEY FILM FEATURG GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE
- DISNEY'S FIRST FILM FEATURG OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER FLOPS AT BOX OFFICE
NEW MOVIE ON DISNEY+ IS FIRST PIXAR FILM TO EVER FEATURE A GAY CHARACTER
Wh s reactn to Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill, the removal of LGBTQ+ characters seri like Gravy Falls and the ncellatn of LGBTQ-led The Owl Hoe, and Pixar employe allegg that executiv have censored queer characters out of their films, there has been an outcry om the LGBTQ+ muny for Disney to improve s LGBTQ+ reprentatn.
Out was Disney's first short to follow a gay ma character and showed their first same-sex kiss on-screen. The film was the one to troduce the first openly gay superhero — Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry) — to the MCU, but that isn't the only thg that mak Eternals the perfect addn to a celebratn of Pri.
‘STRANGE WORLD’ IS DISNEY’S FIRST ANIMATED MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD. WHY IS IT BEG BURIED?
LeFou (Josh Gad) may seem like nothg more than Gaston's sikick, but he ma history 2017 as Disney's first openly gay character. Siarly Onward featured Pixar's first openly gay character, where Officer Specter (Lena Wahe) referenc her girliend. Gaston’s sikick LeFou (Josh Gad) was suggted to be gay 2017’s live-actn “Bety and the Beast.
” Pixar’s “Onward, ” released earlier this year, featured what many nsir Disney’s first outwardly gay animated character: a police officer voiced by Lena Wahe who refers to her girliend. To animate , Hunter approached Wenll Lee, the only other gay animator still at Pixar om Hunter’s early days wh the pany.
For young and old, gay and straight, “Out” is about beg proud of who you are, whoever you are. But the scene sparked bate due to two issu: Florida’s ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” law, which prohibs any class discsn about sexual orientatn and genr inty to stunts younger than ne years old, and Disney’s efforts as a pany to have repealed. His father supports him and giv him advice, not focg on whether his son is gay or not, but simply as a father who is by his son’s si matters of love.
DISNEY FILM FEATURG GAY MA CHARACTER BOMBS AT BOX OFFICE
The dispirg explanatn uld be that Disney, fearg uproar om all matters of the right, has chewed any big promo s more homogeno films receive. Strange World was never sted to be a hot button issue wh anti-gay, racist, fossil fuel-lovg punds. 6 ln over the five-day holiday weekend spe beg herald as the first Disney movie to clu an openly gay ma character.
However, those figur were rapidly, and signifintly, revised downwards when was unrstood how poorly the movie was performg wh wh other recent Disney animated movi cludg Lightyear (another disappotg box office flop), Strange World sought to crowbar progrsive to the film, cludg for the first time Disney’s history an openly gay ma character. However, one liberal movie reviewer said Disney would likely e homophobia to shield om the film’s obv shortgs. “Disney is 100% gog to blame STRANGE WORLD’s evable bad box office on the fact that there’s an openly gay character the movie when realy, ’s gog to flop bee they didn’t market at all.
DISNEY'S FIRST FILM FEATURG OPENLY GAY MA CHARACTER FLOPS AT BOX OFFICE
This is the perfect opportuny for a gay metaphor, but of urse they didn't go that path.
As the film was rated a 15, some plats “argued that portrayals of homosexual activy should eher be rtricted to the 18 tegory or not shown at all”.
Dcribed as “a handsome gay plastic surgeon and amatr sger-songwrer his off hours. As we often see wh Disney, spe the noise ma when was announced, the gay reprentatn is a “blk-and-you’ll-miss-” moment.