Do 'Fdg Dory' show a gay uple? We asked the filmmakers

Contents:

• DO 'FDG DORY' SHOW A GAY UPLE? WE ASKED THE FILMMAKERS
• ELLEN DEGENER LGHS OVER POSSIBLE 'FDG DORY' GAY UPLE
• FDG DORY FEATUR DISNEY’S FIRST GAY UPLE
• DO ‘FDG DORY’ FEATURE A GAY COUPLE? FANS ARE BUZZG ON SOCIAL MEDIA (VIO)
• ‘FDG DORY’ MISS OPPORTUNY TO FEATURE PIXAR’S FIRST GAY COUPLE

DO 'FDG DORY' SHOW A GAY UPLE? WE ASKED THE FILMMAKERS

There's no nclive evince one way or ll for Disney (which owns Pixar and Marvel) to clu lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr characters has gathered momentum recent months. Abrams said he was was asked if he uld "image a homosexual character  Star Wars, and my immediate reactn was, 'Of urse.

Y, and fact que a lot of people are super-extra-exced by the trailer, bee they thk shows a gay uple, which would be a first for Disney or Pixar do they thk this? But would be a big al if was nclive bee ually gay characters are gay only dly, like ’s somethg to be ashamed of. I don’t thk they were dly gay fact.

Photograph: PixarBut if no one’s seen the film yet, how do we know that the women are clearly gay? Maybe they’re on their way to an anti-gay rally?

ELLEN DEGENER LGHS OVER POSSIBLE 'FDG DORY' GAY UPLE

Although would make a kd of sense them beg gay, sce DeGener herself played such a big role the gay rights story. And the excement about is a sign of the hunger out there to ntue gay people’s journey to the mastream by cludg them kids’ films.

You’re beg icthyonormative say: “Wa, wasn’t Ken Toy Story 3 gay? ”Don’t say: “He’s more of a mixture of bisexual and homophobic. Disney has been known to be a very progrsive pany (havg brought the first openly gay s character to work televisn 1997 on the Ellen show) but they have recently e unr fire om GLADD for not featurg even one gay character the 11 feature films they released last year.

FDG DORY FEATUR DISNEY’S FIRST GAY UPLE

There is no nyg , there is a lack of reprentatn of gay characters Disney's big screen movi.

Fans recently petned the stud to give Elsa a girliend Frozen 2, GLAAD lled upon the stud to clu LGBT characters the Star Wars universe while the filmmakers and producers at Marvel have been very enuragg of the ia of brgg an openly gay character to the MCU. And while we might have to wa a b longer to see an openly gay major character one of those univers, I was happy to see what might be a lbian uple this morng's Fdg Dory trailer. Fdg Dory voice actrs Ellen DeGener has been openly gay for almost two s at this pot and has been a vol advote of gay rights and a lear the gay muny.

Polls have shown that DeGener has fluenced gay rights more than any other celebry.

DO ‘FDG DORY’ FEATURE A GAY COUPLE? FANS ARE BUZZG ON SOCIAL MEDIA (VIO)

I thk people assume anyone wh a bad short haircut is gay. Director Andrew Stanton isn't nyg the characters qutn are gay — but he isn't nfirmg , eher.

Rather, the keen-eyed theorist suggts that one of the animal upl the male volno is seen admirg om afar is openly gay. The adlit mass shootg the history of the Uned Stat happened at a gay nightclub Orlando last week, killg 49 people who were mostly Latx members of the LGBT muny and makg clear that homophobia and hate are certaly thrivg some pockets of the Amerin nscns. "And Degener herself, a gay rights advote, simply nied that the two women were a uple durg an terview wh ET Canada: It's really amazg, bee 's two women phg a stroller, which I didn't even notice, and one of them has short hair and apparently if you have short hair you're a lbian.

‘FDG DORY’ MISS OPPORTUNY TO FEATURE PIXAR’S FIRST GAY COUPLE

But why would DeGener, who has done more to fluence gay rights than any other celebry, not embrace a benign snippet of a uple dog one of the most mundane thgs ever? Regardls, 's clear that reprentatn popular culture is so, so important for kids who are gay or who thk they may be.

It's val that they know that the fact that so many gay people died the Orlando massacre only adds to the horror of the event. Viewers were quick to pot out a scene the animated film's trailer which shows two women rg over a baby a stroller, wh the qutn of whether or not the movie was pictg a lbian uple, and while filmmakers have not addrsed the speculatn, this would be the first openly gay uple to appear a Disney/Pixar film ever. "If that's the fn of a gay woman, then how dare you?

Jt bee someone has a short, bad haircut don't mean she's gay. Whether they tend to be a woman wh a bad, short haircut beg gay or not, I thk 's a great thg. 2012’s ParaNorman featured the first openly gay character an mastream animated film.