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Contents:

• PIXAR’S ONWARD FALLY GETS THE “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” RIGHT
• ONWARD’S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER STILL LEAV DISNEY BEHD S PETORS
• ONWARD’S GAY CHARACTER PROV DISNEY’S REPRENTATN PROBLEM
• DISNEY ARE BEG LLED OUT OVER THEIR "FIRST OPENLY GAY" ANIMATED CHARACTER
• PIXAR’S FIRST OUT GAY CHARACTER TO BE VOICED BY LENA WAHE ‘ONWARD’
• DISNEY INTRODUC ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN TOM HOLLAND'S ONWARD
• PIXAR’S ‘ONWARD’ REPORTEDLY BANNED BY FOUR COUNTRI OVER FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER
• LENA WAHE WILL VOICE PIXAR'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER ONWARD
• ‘ONWARD’ BANNED MULTIPLE MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRI, CENSORED RSIA FOR GAY REFERENCE
• 'ONWARD' TRODUC DISNEY'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER

PIXAR’S ONWARD FALLY GETS THE “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” RIGHT

From the “exclively gay moment” the live-actn Bety and the Beast to a kiss between two mor female characters last year’s The Rise of Skywalker, each baby step has been preced by a flotilla of verage proclaimg the advance—and each has been followed by the evable sense of nfn and betrayal when viewers see the movie and realize, That’s ? The makers of Star Trek Beyond were eager to make sure you knew that s versn of Sulu was gay, even though they eded out the only physil sign of his affectns.

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Or would Lawrence have been trotted out for a seri of fensive terviews explag that her character really was gay, but movi are plited and you have to serve the story—and who knows, maybe they’ll clu the leted scen. It’s important not to make too much of Onward’s exclively gay moment—or even to make too much of the movie not makg too much of . After all, children’s animated movi, pecially those om gay filmmakers—cludg ParaNorman and the How to Tra Your Dragon films—have been quietly cludg moments like this for years, whout anyone pattg themselv on the back.

ONWARD’S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER STILL LEAV DISNEY BEHD S PETORS

Onward, Pixar’s first non-sequel movie sce 2017’s Co, notably featur the stud’s first openly gay character. This one le, livered passg wh no follow-up, marks the first verbal regnn of a character’s gay relatnship an animated Disney movie.

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ONWARD’S GAY CHARACTER PROV DISNEY’S REPRENTATN PROBLEM

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DISNEY ARE BEG LLED OUT OVER THEIR "FIRST OPENLY GAY" ANIMATED CHARACTER

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Thanks large part to lobbyg om fans, Disney started featurg explicly gay characters recent years — mostly blk-and-you’ll-miss- moments. Back 2017, director Bill Condon ma headl when he announced that his live-actn Bety and the Beast remake would feature “a nice, exclively gay moment” urty of Josh Gad’s LeFou.

The obsequ sikick to Bety and the Beast’s Gaston had always been spected of admirg the swaggerg villa as more than jt a ra, but acrdg to Condon (who is openly gay himself), his versn of LeFou would be explicly cshg on Gaston.

PIXAR’S FIRST OUT GAY CHARACTER TO BE VOICED BY LENA WAHE ‘ONWARD’

That “exclively gay moment” end up beg even more disappotg, however, when only amounted to some (by Condon’s own admissn) “subtle” flirtg, and a few sends of footage where LeFou and a man drag lli at a celebratn. Avengers: Endgame -director Joe Rso said that was so important to him that Marvel movi reflect the queer muny that he wanted to play the Marvel Cematic Universe’s first gay character himself.

(Marvel Studs print Kev Feige has nfirmed that there will be fally be a gay superhero the MCU, urty of Brian Tyree Henry’s character The Eternals. Cys Goodman, the bt-iend character on Disney Channel’s Andi Mack, me out as gay a 2017 episo.

DISNEY INTRODUC ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN TOM HOLLAND'S ONWARD

Disney Pl’ High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri featur a gay romance. ” In this se, the sexual exploratn happens to be gay, while films like Never Been Kissed and 10 Thgs I Hate About You, which feature siar high-school sexual terrory, are still on the platform.

Officer Specter is voiced by Emmy award-wng screenwrer and actrs Lena Wahe, who is openly gay. Her name is Officer Specter, and she’s a Cyclops p voiced by openly gay screenwrer and actrs Lena Wahe.

“We reprent a gay fay, and have a child, ” Sleiman revealed a recent terview wh the webse NewNowNext, addg that they filmed the MCU’s first same-sex kiss as well. Officer Spector, the much-hyped gay character Onward, is the latt example of Disney's problem when to reprentatn their movi. The much-hyped gay character Onward is the latt example of Disney's problem when to queer reprentatn their movi.

PIXAR’S ‘ONWARD’ REPORTEDLY BANNED BY FOUR COUNTRI OVER FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER

And while they did recently clu a gay lead (namely, Frankie A. Disney's half-hearted efforts at LGBTQ reprentatn their films particular has beg a nng joke by this pot; even the Frozen II Hont Trailer lled attentn to , referrg to the supportg character Honeymaren (Rachel Matthews) as beg "The Blk And You'll Miss It Gay Character That Disney Will Pat Itself On the Back About.

LENA WAHE WILL VOICE PIXAR'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER ONWARD

Disney Has A Lot Of "First" Gay Characters, All Disappotg. " A year later,  me to light the character LeFou (Josh Gad) would be nonilly gay Disney's live-actn Bety and the Beast.

‘ONWARD’ BANNED MULTIPLE MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRI, CENSORED RSIA FOR GAY REFERENCE

Disney has sce released a handful of movi featurg explicly queer characters, begng wh last year's Avengers: Endgame (where -director Joe Rso plays a gay man grievg the loss of his hband) and ntug on to December's Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, when Commanr D'Acy (Amanda Lawrence) kiss another woman durg the Ristance's victory celebratn near the end. The scene qutn tak place when the film's leads Ian and Barley mt disguise themselv after beg pulled over by a uple of ps, cludg Officer Spector, a cyclops police officer voiced by Lena Wahe (herself, an openly gay actor-wrer). Instead, by only cludg supportg and otherwise mor gay characters, Disney is (theoretilly) able to reap the benefs that e wh the good prs whout ostracizg too many filmgoers the U.

It's already been nfirmed The New Mutants (which Disney acquired s Fox purchase) featur a queer love story between two of s leads, while Marvel Studs and Chloé Zhao's upg Eternals is nfirmed to clu the first gay MCU movie superhero and kiss.

Disney have nfirmed that Onward will feature their "first openly gay" animated character.

'ONWARD' TRODUC DISNEY'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER

The highly-anticipated new movie is schled to e out March 6 worldwi and currently has an 82% ratg on Rotten MORE: Avengers: Endgame is beg lled out for dog "the bare mimum" wh first gay characterNow, Onward director Dan Snlon has nfirmed that the film will make Disney history wh the pany's first-ever openly LGBTQ+ character an animated film.

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