Do Disney’s 'Lu' Have a Gay Character?

Contents:

• ¿TIENE 'LU' EL PRIMER PROTAGONISTA GAY PIXAR?
• IS LU A GAY METAPHOR?
• LU DIRECTOR SAYS THEY NSIRED MAKG LU AND ALBERTO EXPLICLY GAY
• SORRY, FOLKS, PIXAR’S LU ISN’T GAY
• DO DISNEY’S ‘LU’ HAVE A GAY CHARACTER?
• 'LU' DIRECTOR ADMS THEY 'TALKED ABOUT' MAKG THE LEADS GAY BUT CID TO FOC ON A 'PRE-ROMANCE' IENDSHIP
• LU PIXAR: ¿LU GAY? ¡EXPLICIóN ALBERTO & LUS!
• IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE? MAYBE

¿TIENE 'LU' EL PRIMER PROTAGONISTA GAY PIXAR?

El primer tráiler se ha hecho públi ta semana¿Ha querido ntar un g-of-age gay? El hecho que 'Lu' una historia cuyo protagonista homosexual. El mensaje pue parecer peranzador a la hora que por f Pixar ponga a un protagonista homosexual en una s historias.

Hasta ahora, se ha visto un secundar LGTBIQ en 'Onward', y ya ntó n un protagonista gay en el rto 'Salir' ('Out') ntro l programa Sparkshorts. ¿Podría el tud animación dar el salto y oecer un personaje homosexual en un largometraje? Are Lu and Alberto Gay?

Therefore, even while no character the film intifi as openly gay, fans strongly relate to the story of Lu and Alberto. ¿Lu y Alberto son gay?

IS LU A GAY METAPHOR?

«Me han preguntado muchas vec: “¿Pero son homosexual? Amás, entó que le enntó el fan art que prentaba a Alberto y a Lu o pareja gay y no dudó en cir que un aliado LGBT+. Many fans of Lu believe that the movie is a queer-d gay love story.

LU DIRECTOR SAYS THEY NSIRED MAKG LU AND ALBERTO EXPLICLY GAY

Lu director Enri Casarosa has revealed that there were nversatns about possibly makg Lu an explicly gay soon as Lu me out last year, LGBTQ+ viewers immediately nnected wh the Disney+ movie. Not to mentn, they face prejudice om humans for beg different and have to hi who they are om prevly asserted that their relatnship is platonic but he's now nfirmed that he nsired makg MORE: Lu fans are nvced 's a gay love story and the mem are inic.

SORRY, FOLKS, PIXAR’S LU ISN’T GAY

Lu director says they nsired makg Lu and Alberto explicly gay. The film's director said 's about iendships, but many viewers observed a strong gay subtext.

Alberto and Lu's relatnship is laced wh gay subtextLu is immediately taken by the ee-spired Alberto when he meets a fellow sea monster off the ast of 're sually physil wh each other, sleepg si by si unr a star-filled sky, wrappg their arms around each other's waists, and watchg the sunset together. "This might seem rehg to some, to see a Disney movie explore iendships as opposed to a fairy-tale love story, but s a shame that this cisn has e when a gay romance uld have so easily and naturally be Lu and Alberto explicly gay or queer wouldn't have felt ntrived.

DO DISNEY’S ‘LU’ HAVE A GAY CHARACTER?

It would have been a meangful nfirmatn of what is already a story rich gay subtext.

"Bety and the Beast" and "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" both featured blk-and-you'll-miss- "gay moments:" a dance between two men and a kiss between two women. Queer kids will still feel forted by this story bee the scene plays out like an allegory for g out and beg gay, even if Casarosa said isn't. —ClassicMovieGay (@jblikmovi) June 19, 2021What would have ma even more powerful, though, is if the movie explicly embraced the unniable queer subtext through will argue that Pixar ma the right ll to be more ambiguo, so that more people n take different thgs om the movie, but I feel queer dienc have been robbed of a goln opportuny for tangible reprentatn.

Instead, Disney seems happy to let dienc terpret the movie their own way — (almost) satisfyg LGBTQ dienc wh a movie that feels gay but actually isn't, whout beg brave enough to prent an openly queer story. When Pixar first revealed the plot synopsis of s upg movie Lu — a tale of two sea-monster boys named Lu and Alberto, and an “unfettable” summer on the Italian Rivera — many people quickly pared to Call Me By Your Name, the 2017 gay romance that also took place durg an unfettable summer Italy. But 2020, Pixar released “Out” through s SparkShorts program, which centered around a gay uple.

'LU' DIRECTOR ADMS THEY 'TALKED ABOUT' MAKG THE LEADS GAY BUT CID TO FOC ON A 'PRE-ROMANCE' IENDSHIP

Eager for reprentatn, many fans have clung to the possibily that Lu might give them openly gay ma characters, and not jt one-note si characters. Jt a ltle over halfway through Pri Month, we are seeg people flock to Twter to prent their theori on why and how the lead duo Disney and Pixar’s latt g-of-age animated feature film, Lu, is, fact, gay.

So do Lu have a gay character after all, or is this jt a se of fans creatg a headnon that’s gag tractn and onle clout? Do Lu have a gay character? While Disney has not e on the rerd sayg that Lu and Alberto are gay, we (and many a Twter er!

) believe that the great mds at Pixar may have meant for the movie’s plot to be an overall metaphor for gayns and acceptance.

LU PIXAR: ¿LU GAY? ¡EXPLICIóN ALBERTO & LUS!

I KNOW #Lu isn’t an explicly gay movie.

So while no character Lu has been intified by Disney outright as gay, we n very well read the subtext, metaphors, and straight-up visual evince (all of those nocent touch! Watchg the close relatnship the ma characters Lu and Alberto have, many even went and clared the animated versn of the gay g-of-age 2017 drama, "Call Me by Your Name, " starrg Timothée Chalamet and Armie "Lu" director Enri Casarosa has always said while dog prs that the story is based on his straight relatnship wh his bt iend growg up Italy, a recent terview wh The Wrap he did adm that for a moment while velopg the story they wonred if Lu and Alberto should be more than jt iends. "It's a shame that this cisn has e when a gay romance uld have so easily and naturally be explored, " he wrote.

IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE? MAYBE

"Makg Lu and Alberto explicly gay or queer wouldn't have felt ntrived, would have been a meangful nfirmatn of what is already a story rich gay subtext.

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¿Lu gay? Si quier saber si Lu gay, sigue leyendo! Entonc entenmos por qué la película animada hizo que la gente se preguntara si Lu no sería una historia amor homosexual.