“Lightyear,” released durg Pri month, featur a gay kiss—but crics qutn the pany’s mment to LGBTQ rights.
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- SAME-SEX KISS ‘LIGHTYEAR’ RTORED TO PIXAR FILM’S FAL CUT AFTER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ OUTRAGE
- DISNEY WILL RTORE GAY KISS TO LIGHTYEAR FOLLOWG “DON’T SAY GAY” BACKLASH
- SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
- PIXAR RTOR A SAME-SEX KISS LIGHTYEAR AFTER DISNEY 'DON'T SAY GAY' BACKLASH
SAME-SEX KISS ‘LIGHTYEAR’ RTORED TO PIXAR FILM’S FAL CUT AFTER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ OUTRAGE
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Followg a year marked by turmoil wh s LGBTQ+ fan base and employe, Disney is releasg s first-ever movie that shows a gay kiss. Lightyear is not the first Disney film to be censored other untri for s pictn of gay characters.
After ially refg to ment on Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, the pany faced a wave of cricism om employe and nsumers. “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, ” their letter read. Beyond qutng s public stance, fans and employe also cricized Disney for donatg to Florida policians who supported the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
: 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 Evans' Buzz is more fantastic than plastic Pixar's spiffy 'Lightyear'“What this film do is handle love and those stori the way that they should be, that they are not the totaly of a person, ” Aduba tells USA TODAY. ':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. Playg a character like Alisha a high-profile movie the wake of “Don’t Say Gay” and other siar legislatn “means everythg, ” Aduba adds.
DISNEY WILL RTORE GAY KISS TO LIGHTYEAR FOLLOWG “DON’T SAY GAY” BACKLASH
After outrage over their tepid rponse to Florida's “Don't Say Gay” bills, the pany has offered this cmb. * buzzyear gay kiss *
Disney and Pixar have received substantial attentn over the past months after employe alleged that rporate executiv cut “nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn” recent films, “regardls of when there is prott om both the creative teams and executive learship at Pixar. Ron DeSantis’ ntroversial “Parental Rights Edutn” bill, or, as many lled , the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Strange World, g this November, will feature the first-ever gay teen romance, and Disney+ currently boasts an entire “pri” llectn on s streamg service.
Homosexualy is nsired crimal many Middle Eastern untri. But she said filmmakers would not make chang to the has rejected other on-screen pictns of homosexualy the past. 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.
SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
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. “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.
Homosexualy is illegal Sdi Arabia, and surroundg untri often take issue wh LGBTQ+ movie ntent or characters. The abpt cisn 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 and their rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
(Disney/Pixar)There's lots of buzz over a particular scene Lightyear, and now the filmmakers and star are ready to addrs the Variety reported March, a same-sex kiss om Pixar’s upg Toy Story spoff was ially cut om the animated feature, only to be rtored after LGBTQ employe and alli at the Disney-owned pany sent a jot statement to stud executiv prottg the censorship of “overtly gay affectn. ”The stud’s about-face me as Disney was unr creased scty om s workforce over the rporatn’s perceived lax rponse to Florida’s ntroversial so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Related vio: Pixar restat 'Lightyear' same-sex kiss after backlash over Disney's rponse to Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' bill “We always tend for that relatnship to be there, ” Lightyear director Ang MacLane (Fdg Dory) tells Yahoo Entertament regards to the marriage between Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) — bt iend and fellow Space Ranger to Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans) — and the wife she grows old wh.
PIXAR RTOR A SAME-SEX KISS LIGHTYEAR AFTER DISNEY 'DON'T SAY GAY' BACKLASH
Disney and Pixar’s “Lightyear, ” out this June, has rtored to the film what would be the animatn stud’s first same-sex kiss a feature film, between a character lled Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba) and her dividual wh knowledge of the film’s productn said that the same-sex relatnship was always a part of the movie and never up for bate, but the kiss self was ultimately removed as part of the creative procs terms of nversatns about the dividual says light of the current environment across Disney, a cisn was ma last week to rtore the kiss to the fished news after a letter released by Pixar employe the wake of Disney’s rponse to the “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn acced the stud of barrg them om creatg or showg displays of LGBTQ+ timacy and ntent their stori. “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.
There is a gay character 2020’s “Onward” who discs her girliend, but the character only mentns her partner; you never see them together or any kd of romantic settg. ) that walks by the background of “Fdg Dory;” and there is a clearly gay-d character their most recent release, “Turng Red” (now on Disney+).
”Of urse, speculatn immediately turned to last year’s “Lu, ” which is maybe the most explicly gay Pixar movie, both terms of the bond formed by two young sea monsters on a sun-drenched Italian island, post-World War II, but also the thematic unrpngs of havg to hi your te self to be able to f , the jealoy that forms between the two characters, and the overall vibe of the relatnship, which many likened to the Pixar versn of “Call Me By Your Name. But was restated when Pixar animators spoke out agast Disney an open letter obtaed by Variety, sayg that Disney had mand cuts, censorg “overtly gay affectn” and prott agast Disney CEO Bob Chapek’s handlg of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill.