Pixar’s Onward fally gets the “exclively gay moment” right.

Contents:

• DISNEY INTRODUC ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN TOM HOLLAND'S ONWARD
• LENA WAHE WILL VOICE PIXAR'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER ONWARD
• ONWARD’S GAY CHARACTER PROV DISNEY’S REPRENTATN PROBLEM
• PIXAR’S ONWARD FALLY GETS THE “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” RIGHT
• ONWARD’S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER STILL LEAV DISNEY BEHD S PETORS
• THUNR ROSTER CNCH: VETERAN FORWARD RUDY GAY WAIVED

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

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.

Lena Wahe plays Disney's first openly gay character.

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

Actrs, Lena Wahe, plays Disney's first openly gay character Pixar's upg fantasy adventure, Onward. Disney have, the past, nfirmed several of their characters to be gay, cludg LeFou the live-actn remake of Bety and the Beast, wh a cute payoff towards the end of the film.

For example, one of Ian's (Tom Holland) classmat n be seen walkg on Wahe also shared her excement wh beg Disney's first openly gay character, by sharg a new snippet on her Insatgram to her 840k followers, simply ptng wh the rabow emoji. Meet Officer Specter, a cyclops police officer voiced by gay Emmy-wng Master of None actrs and screenwrer Lena Wahe.

And many viewers have speculated that certa characters Disney movi, such as Elsa om Frozen and Li Shang om Mulan, were secretly gay or bisexual, and such notg perceived subtext the relatnship between Gaston and Le Fou the live-actn versn of Bety and the Pratt and Tom Holland portray the ma characters  Onward, teenagers Ian and Barley Lightfoot, who embark on a road trip to rurrect their ad father for 24 hours. In recent years, Disney has ma ty ltle baby steps toward greater LGBTQ reprentatn, wh an "exclively gay moment" the live-actn remake of Bety and the Beast, a mor gay character  Avengers: Endgame, and the blk-and-you'll-miss- same-sex kiss of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

ONWARD’S GAY CHARACTER PROV DISNEY’S REPRENTATN PROBLEM

While the "exclively gay moment" the Bety and the Beast live-actn remake ma some splashy headl, once the film was released, was clear that the moment was more implied than explicly queer.

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

And while the Avengers: Endgame scene was able to rile up a few nservative moviegoers wh s mentn of gay datg, was a le still uttered by a mor character — played by the heterosexual director at that. It's official: Onward will be the first Pixar movie to clu an openly gay character! Part of the LGBTQ+ muny herself, Lena said at the Essence Black Women Hollywood Awards 2018 that she was "proud to be a gay, black female.

Officer Specter is voiced by Emmy award-wng screenwrer and actrs Lena Wahe, who is openly gay. “I didn’t tend to bee a person wh opns about movi for children but, Onward has this… mantire and yet the non ‘gay’ character they gave is a cyclops p? You know Disney gays would buy merch of her, ” one Twter er said.

I personally do want to see more ol gay characters that aren’t jt pawns for woke pots, ” another Twter er wrote. “The gay cyclops p Onward looks like a random ugly background character that someone would pot to and go ‘don’t worry everyone, here’s our ten am of gay rep’ as a joke to mock Disney, ” one Twter er said. Officer Spector, the much-hyped gay character Onward, is the latt example of Disney's problem when to reprentatn their movi.

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

The much-hyped gay character Onward is the latt example of Disney's problem when to queer reprentatn their movi. 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. 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.

THUNR ROSTER CNCH: VETERAN FORWARD RUDY GAY WAIVED

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. 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 ?