Same-sex kiss cut om Lightyear reportedly rtored after Disney's 'Don't Say Gay' backlash

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Same-sex kiss cut om Lightyear reportedly rtored after Disney's 'Don't Say Gay' backlash

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DISNEY RTOR SAME-GENR ‘LIGHTYEAR’ KISS FOLLOWG “DON’T SAY GAY” BACKLASH

Backlash ntu over Disney's rporate rponse to the "Don't Say Gay" bill Florida." data-hid="scriptn * buzz lightyear gay backlash *

The now famo Lightyear kiss (which is, at bt, a quick peck) was only restated the film after an open letter March by “the LGBTQIA+ employe of Pixar, and their alli, ” which cricized Disney for btally cuttg “nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn … regardls of when there is prott om both the creative teams and executive learship at Pixar. Dpe nservative attempts to create a narrative around a supposed “gay agenda, ” Disney is simply tryg to avoid bad publicy - Disney’s agenda is to make money, whout alienatg their queer dience, as well as easily panicked suburban.

Disney’s “gay agenda” certaly didn’t warrant a backlash, but a quick kiss that was never supposed to make the fal cut isn’t much to brag about eher.

LIGHTYEAR: PIXAR RTOR SAME-SEX KISS FOLLOWG ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL BACKLASH

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This was amidst the pany’s disappotg rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

At the time, Disney held a virtual all-hands meetg where Latoya Ravene, one of the pany’s executive producers, fend the Moe Hoe, sayg everyone had been welg to her “not-at-all-secret gay agenda. In addn to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which forbids tn on sexualy and genr inty krgarten through third gra classrooms and was signed by Governor Ron DeSantis late March, there are several other measur currently workg their way through state legislatur.

SAME-SEX KISS CUT OM LIGHTYEAR REPORTEDLY RTORED AFTER DISNEY'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BACKLASH

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A movie wh a homosexual kissg scene would likely not pass a censorship review Indonia bee of a 2019 law that prohibs movi wh “vulgar sexual activy” or sexual ntent that is “viant” or “unreasonable, ” Mr. Rommy gay, lbian and transgenr people face persecutn across the Islamic world.

” It scribed the film as the “first mercial children’s animatn to feature overt homosexual pictns, ” and said that Disney had cled s suggtn of releasg two versns of the film, cludg an eded one for younger viewers. Followg the ternal backlash around Disney’s prev public silence on Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, the cisn was ma last week to add the kiss back . “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.

PIXAR RTOR A SAME-SEX KISS LIGHTYEAR AFTER DISNEY 'DON'T SAY GAY' BACKLASH

Lu is another notable Pixar film that has had many discsns around s possible LGBTQ reprentatn, wh director Enri Casarosa statg that the team nsirg makg the leads gay, but cid to stead foc on the relatnship as a “pre-romance, ” after basg on a personal iendship dynamic when he was growg up. 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.

DISNEY WILL RTORE GAY KISS TO LIGHTYEAR FOLLOWG “DON’T SAY GAY” BACKLASH

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.

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But is a eful barometer of the current nservative backlash agast LGBTQ rights. If people are tly angered by the lbian relatnship picted “Lightyear,” then maybe what seemed like a huge leap to a more tolerant future was jt a moment of lm an ongog, and tensifyg, culture war.</p></div></div><div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="db dn-ns mr-neg-gutter ml-neg-gutter mb-md hi-for-prt" data-qa="subscribe-promo"><div data-orientatn="horizontal" role="separator" class="wpds-c-dbVHzF wpds-c-dbVHzF-hDkAcj-variant-flt"></div><a class="pt-sm pb-sm flex ems-center bold font-xxxs font-xxs-ns jtify-center" href=" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="lor:#166dfc;borr:none"><svg class="ntent-box" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" xmlns=" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img"><tle>Wp</tle><path d="M11.055 8.728l-1.018-1.019-.782.782v6.292l1.782 1.564.018-.019v-7.6zm-4.11.236L5.674 7.71l-.836.855v6.237l1.545 1.327.564-.636V8.964zm2.656 9.074l-2.528-2.182-1.927 2.182-2.619-2.255v-3.564h-.509c-.454 0-.672.273-.745.636H1.09a2.89 2.89 0 0 1-.091-.69c0-.473.2-1.71 1.527-1.71V7.691c0-1.073-.709-1.127-.709-2.054 0-1.037.982-2 2.782-2.637l.164.145c-.6.291-1.09.655-1.09 1.437 0 1.2 1.163.89 1.163 2.782v.727l2.127-2.236 2.237 2.2 2.109-2.2 2.036 2v6.728l-3.745 3.455zm11.108-9.625l-1.073-.982-.964 1.018v6.6c.855.11 1.491.4 2.019.964l.018-.018V8.413zm-2.382.418l-.528.545v10.237l.528.492V8.83zm1.49 9.055c-.308-.382-.69-.709-1.145-.836v3.782l-.036.018-1-.927-2.11 1.945-.036-.018V16.96c-.636.145-1.327.545-1.854 1.2l-.146-.091c.127-1.4.818-2.436 2-2.837v-3.545h-.382c-.527 0-.89.363-.963.763h-.219c-.054-.145-.127-.381-.127-.836 0-.891.6-1.564 1.582-1.564h.11V8.085l-.655-.582-.51.51-.254-.237 2.018-2.073 1.71 1.564V9.05l.527-.564v-2.09h.345v1.727l2.273-2.419L23 7.576v7.91l-3.182 2.4z" fill-le="evenodd"></path></svg><span class="mr-xs ml-xs gray-darkt flex ems-center">Get the full experience.<span class="ml-xs subs-theme blue">Choose your plan</span></span><svg class="ntent-box" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16" xmlns=" style="fill:#166dfc" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img"><tle>ArrowRight</tle><path d="M7.664 1.25l6 6a1 1 0 010 1.414l-6 6L6.25 13.25 10.499 9H2V7h8.585L6.25 2.664 7.664 1.25z" fill-le="nonzero"></path></svg></a><div data-orientatn="horizontal" role="separator" class="wpds-c-dbVHzF wpds-c-dbVHzF-hDkAcj-variant-flt"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">At issue is an early sequence the film when space ranger Buzz Lightyear (now voiced by Chris Evans) attempts to break the light speed barrier. Each one of his tt flights lasts only a few mut for him, but years for everyone else, particularly his bt iend, Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba).</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Every time Buzz returns, Alisha has reached a new tone: she’s engaged to a woman named Keiko; she’s pregnant; her son is a ltle boy, then a graduate a p and gown; she and her wife celebrate their 40th anniversary, markg the ocsn wh a chaste kiss so fleetg ’s barely visible. Buzz and the dience only ever glimpse the uple through the door of their podlike apartment, givg the imprsn that the movie’s lbian relatnship tak place entirely si — you gused — a closet.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Ahead of the release of “Lightyear,” <a href=">nservative mentator Ben Shapiro warned</a> that “Disney works to ph a ‘not-at-all-secret gay agenda’ and seeks to add ‘queerns’ to s programmg. … Parents should keep that md before cidg whether to take their kids to see ‘Lightyear.’”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="wpds-c-eyhHZm wpds-c-eyhHZm-igCbUYf-css"><div data-state="closed"><button type="button" aria-ntrols="" aria-expand="false" data-state="closed" class="wpds-c-kCVdRh"><div class="wpds-c-qEzGg"><span class="wpds-c-diBAsU"><span data-ttid="avatar" class="wpds-c-qhccP wpds-c-qhccP-dBwtqg-size-200"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:le-block;overflow:hidn;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;posn:relative;max-width:100%"><span style="box-sizg:borr-box;display:block;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0;max-width:100%"><img style="display:block;max-width:100%;width:ial;height:ial;background:none;opacy:1;borr:0;marg:0;paddg:0" alt="" aria-hidn="te" src="data:image/svg+xml,></span><img alt="" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" dg="async" data-nimg="trsic" class="wpds-c-cNQNEw" style="posn:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizg:borr-box;paddg:0;borr:none;marg:to;display:block;width:0;height:0;m-width:100%;max-width:100%;m-height:100%;max-height:100%;background-size:ver;background-posn:0% 0%;filter:blur(20px);background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http%3A//; 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Alisha and Keiko’s nventnal domticy is exactly the image that last ’s gay rights advot ed to fight for marriage equaly, argug that LGBTQ people wanted to jo historilly straight stutns, not stroy them. That effort culmated the Supreme Court’s 2015 cisn that the 14th Amendment protected the rights of same-sex upl to marry and have their marriag regnized by other stat.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In the seven years sce, support for marriage equaly has ntued to grow, <a href=">reachg 71 percent a Gallup poll released June</a>. Yet recent months, broar anti-LGBTQ anim has reemerged on the natnal scene wh real force and venom.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font--article-body font-py gray-darkt ma-0 pb-md" dir="null">On June 11, 31 members of a whe natnalist group <a href=">were arrted and charged wh nspiracy to rt</a> at an LGBTQ pri event Idaho. A week later, at Texas Republins’ party nventn, legat <a href=">affirmed the sentiment</a> that “Homosexualy is an abnormal liftyle choice” and endorsed legal and profsnal protectns for therapists who try to rid their clients of “unwanted same-sex attractn.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Then there’s the rise of the slur “groomer,” <a href=">which has been ployed</a> by far-right activists eager to tar LGBTQ people as child sexual abers (and to wk at the <a href=">QAnon nspiracy theory</a>). It’s a nasty retread both of Ana Bryant’s 1970s Save Our Children mpaign agast a Miami anti-discrimatn ordance, and of the charge that gay people “rec” nverts, which persisted — <a href=">and was rightly parodied</a> — through the late 1990s.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The hysteria about drag queens — who may be neher gay nor transgenr, and whose performanc often tend toward parody rather than tillatn — has been particularly tense. A Vermont parent <a href=">was recently arrted</a> after allegedly threateng to “show up and kill somebody” at his child’s school the unlikely event that the kid met a drag performer or transgenr person there. 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