While Disney and Pixar ually hate to portray gay relatnships their animated featur, The Mchells vs. The Mach mak look easy.
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THE MCHELLS VS. THE MACH DO GAY REPRENTATN FAR BETTER THAN THE COMPETN
Long before the movie beme an Osr-nomated Netflix release, s director had to nvce Sony to make Katie Mchell gay. * mitchells vs the machines gay *
Mch Paranorman was the first openly gay character an all-ag Amerin animated movie, and until now, he was still the most proment. 'Unrneath this hilar movie, s ma character, Katie Mchell (voiced by Abbi Jabson), seemed to be gay.
"I noticed all the people I was basg Katie on were queer to the pot that people on the movie started askg, 'Is Katie gay? In the world of stud animatn, havg a gay character is rare — let alone makg the lead character gay.
"Sony really pulled through and didn't chicken out, bee the tth is, you n't do this at every stud, " Rianda after speakg to Rianda and Nichols for this story, Variety reported that the LGBTQ+ staff at Pixar alleged that Disney mand cuts their movi of "nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn... "This followed the pany-wi memo om Disney CEO Bob Chapek regardg recent Florida legislatn known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, which would ban discsn of sexual orientatn and genr inty schools.
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Fans rejoiced when Laika’s ParaNorman 2012 revealed the ultra-jock “Mch” as gay his fal moment on screen, makg him the first openly gay character a mastream animated film.
The first time a mastream animated film acknowledged an openly gay character was ls than a , armed wh an tentnally placed rabow button, a laptop filled wh absurdist edy short films, a bra cluttered wh anxiety, a sire to fd “her people, ” and a ntued msage that sometim tak time to figure out who you are, Katie Mchell of The Mchells vs. Dpe Disney’s one and only nonilly queer character a mastream animated film, they are nstantly unr fire and boytted for promotg a “gay agenda. Jam Gunn revealed last year that his origal script for the live-actn Soby Doo featured long-time queer d in, Velma Dkley, as explicly gay, but the stud ntued to water down her queerns until fally throwg a boyiend character jt to make sure there wouldn’t be any qutng of her sounds ridiculo to say , but Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe genuely took a risk by makg Katie Mchell queer.