Contents:
- IS SHURI GAY? THE PRCS OF WAKANDA’S SEXUALY EXPLAED
- DISNEY REMOV GAY BLACK PANTHER 2 SCENE TO AVOID BAN
- ROXANE GAY'S 'WORLD OF WAKANDA': HOW SNDAL SPIRED THE NEW MARVEL IC
- ‘BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER’ BANNED CHA FOR HAVG GAY CHARACTERS
IS SHURI GAY? THE PRCS OF WAKANDA’S SEXUALY EXPLAED
Meanwhile, Chavez (Xochl Gomez) herself, who intifi as a lbian the ics, do wear an LGBTQ+ badge durg the movie but the film don't explore her own biggt form of LGBTQ+ reprentatn me "Eternals, " which premiered last year, where one of the hero Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry) is married to a man and has the first on-screen gay kiss. Even Sdi Arabia, where homosexualy is illegal, will show the forehead kiss. Recent blockbters such as “Thor: Love and Thunr, ” “Doctor Strange the Multiverse of Madns” and “Wt Si Story” reportedly didn’t make to Sdi theaters bee of same-genr kiss and gay or transgenr characters.
DISNEY REMOV GAY BLACK PANTHER 2 SCENE TO AVOID BAN
This clud Brian Tyree Henry’s Phastos, who beme the first openly gay super-powered hero the MCU. Until then, Bety and the Beast (2017) director Bill Condon ma ments that l the ter on fire wh the announcement that LeFou (Josh Gad) would be the subject of an "exclively gay scene". On paper, makg LeFou gay do make some sense given his undyg loyalty to Gaston (Le Evans), so 's a change that uld work if done right and perhaps even help the remake (that nobody asked for) set self apart om the origal.
ROXANE GAY'S 'WORLD OF WAKANDA': HOW SNDAL SPIRED THE NEW MARVEL IC
What is that "exclively gay scene" you ask? Rampant plot hol, poor explanatns for characters somehow returng and most relevant to today's topic, an out-of-nowhere gay kiss scene that means absolutely nothg to the overall story.
The part-prequel/part-sp-off tellg the origs of inic space ranger Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans) started a firtorm when, around the time of Disney's Florida ntroversy, was revealed that Disney had cut a gay kiss om the then-upg Pixar film. She add that “by my beg Ghanaian, Ghanaians will e”, and that she wanted to provi a posive LGBTQ+ portrayal for those the untry, where is illegal to be gay.
This trend n also be spotted the recent Thor: Love and Thunr, which director Taika Wai claimed was “super gay” but ntaed ltle actual LGBTQ+ romance. For ntext, like many Ain untri, Ghana has dranian anti-gay laws datg back to the 1860s.
‘BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER’ BANNED CHA FOR HAVG GAY CHARACTERS
But a new bill was put to the Ghana parliament last year proposg the most opprsive anti-LGBTQIA+ legislatn passed whout amendments, uld make one intifyg as gay or even an ally a send-gree felony, punishable by five years Coel, she wants "to show that to Ghana" and that " felt important for me to step and do [this] role" bee she knows "by my beg Ghanaian, Ghanaians will e:"“I thought: I like that, I want to show that to Ghana.