Report: Disney To Inclu Gay Relatnship In Lightyear Movie - Boundg Into Comics

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• 'LIGHTYEAR' STAR CHRIS EVANS LLS CRICS OF DISNEY PIXAR'S GAY KISSG SCENE ‘IDTS’
• PIXAR’S LIGHTYEAR IS TRIGGERG THE LATT RIGHT-WG ANTI-LGBTQ+ PANICCONSERVATIV ARE PHG TO ERASE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE OM PUBLIC LIFE, BANNG TALK OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN SCHOOLS, TARGETG DRAG PERFORMANC, AND MORE. THE LATT TARGET: ATTACKG THE PORTRAYAL OF A LBIAN UPLE THE TOY STORY SP-OFF OUT THIS WEEK.BY CALEB ERMAJUNE 16, 2022© WALT DISNEY CO./EVERETT COLLECTN.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHE NSERVATIVE OUTRAGE MACHE HAS PICKED S NEXT TARGET AND ’S ABOUT TO H THEATERS: DISNEY-PIXAR’S LIGHTYEAR, THE TOY STORY SP-OFF MOVIE OUT FRIDAY. “DISNEY WORKS TO PH A ‘NOT-AT-ALL-SECRET GAY AGENDA’…PARENTS SHOULD KEEP THAT MD BEFORE CIDG WHETHER TO TAKE THEIR KIDS TO SEE ‘LIGHTYEAR,’” TWEETED BEN SHAPIRO, ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR RIGHT-WG PODST HOSTS. HIS POST CLUD A SCREENSHOT OM THE UPG ANIMATED MOVIE THAT FEATUR TWO LBIAN PARENTS EMBRACG EACH OTHER. “CHILDREN ARE NOT ADULTS. WHAT MAY BE APPROPRIATE FOR ADULTS IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN,” THE PODSTER NTUED. “THAT THIS MT BE SAID MONSTRAT THAT OUR SOCIETY IS A STATE OF MORAL LLAPSE.”SHAPIRO’S PORTRAYAL OF LGBTQ+ PEOPLE AND RELATNSHIPS AS HERENTLY LEWD OR PORNOGRAPHIC, AND TH, APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN, HAS BEE THE NORM AMONG MANY NSERVATIV. OVER THE PAST THREE MONTHS, THE BIGGT NAM NSERVATIVE MEDIA HAVE RURRECTED AN ALL-OUT WAR AGAST LGBTQ+ AMERINS, ATTEMPTG TO TRIGGER A MORAL PANIC THAT IS GROWG MORE EXTREME AND MORE WISPREAD WH EACH PASSG WEEK. AS STATE LEGISLATUR TEE UP HUNDREDS OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ PROPOSALS THIS YEAR, A STUDY OM THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN CLARED THAT 2022 ULD BE THE MOST ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATIVE YEAR HISTORY, PER USA TODAY. THIS MPAIGN HAS ALSO LATED NSERVATIVE MEDIA; MARCH, FAR-RIGHT PUNDS BEGAN MALIGNG TORS WHO TALK ABOUT GENR INTY OR SEXUAL ORIENTATN AS “GROOMERS” WHO SEEK TO PREY ON SCHOOLCHILDREN. THE REVIVAL OF THIS AGE-OLD SMEAR WAS ADOPTED BY SOME OF THE RIGHT’S MOST POPULAR PUNDS AND POLICIANS. BUT THE FOC OF THE ATTACKS HAS SCE SHIFTED OM SCHOOLS, EVOLVG TO MUCH BROAR ATTACKS ON LGBTQ+ PEOPLE ALL PUBLIC SPAC.IN A TOWNHALL LUMN TLED “WHEN A KISS IS NOT JT A KISS,” TALK RAD HOST LARRY O’CONNOR PHED BACK AGAST A PEREZ HILTON TWEET NOTG THAT LIGHTYEAR IS “BANNED MULTIPLE UNTRI OVER A GAY KISS. CARTOONS KISSING, Y’ALL. THAT’S SOME MMENT TO HOMOPHOBIA.”“THIS IS THE STANDARD RPONSE WHENEVER OBJECTNS ARE RAISED TO THE SLOW-MOTN GRADATN OF OUR PRCIPL AND VALU THAT WE TRY TO STILL OUR CHILDREN,” O’CONNOR WROTE. “NOW, DISNEY HAS CID TO WARP S CREDIBILY WH PARENTS EVERYWHERE BY LETTG KNOW THAT EVEN S RTOONS ARE NO LONGER EE OM NTENT THAT MIGHT BE OBJECTNABLE.” LIKEWISE, THE AMERIN CONSERVATIVE’S ROD DREHER NMNED DISNEY’S CISN TO CLU THE LIGHTYEAR SCENE, ACCG THE PANY OF APPEASG A “WOKE MOB THAT WANTS TO SEXUALIZE CHILDREN” AND TRYG TO “TURN POPULAR ART TO CULTURE-WAR PROPAGANDA.” (AT ONE POT, DISNEY HIGHER-UPS REPORTEDLY CID TO REMOVE THE SCENE WHICH THE LBIAN UPLE SHAR A KISS, BUT THEY REVERSED THAT CISN MARCH RPONSE TO EMPLOYEE PROTTS OVER ANTI-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATN BEG PASSED FLORIDA.)“IT’S GREAT THAT ’S BACK THE FILM,” ACTOR CHRIS EVANS, WHO VOIC THE CHARACTER BUZZ LIGHTYEAR, TOLD VANY FAIR AT LAST WEEK’S WORLD PREMIERE. “I THK ’S A SHAME THAT ’S SUCH A STORY. IT SHOULD BE MORE NORMALIZED, BUT I’M GLAD WE ARE MAKG THOSE STEPS.”IT’S NOT JT MOVI. IN A DIRECT REBUTTAL TO PRI MONTH CELEBRATNS TAKG PLACE ACROSS THE UNTRY, NSERVATIV HAVE ALSO NOUNCED LGBTQ+ SPAC AS NATELY PRAVED AND UNF FOR CHILDREN. “IT’S OK TO JT SAY YOU DON’T WANT KIDS TO GO TO DRAG SHOWS BEE YOU DON’T WANT THEM TO SEE MEN DRSED UP LIKE WOMEN,” WROTE NSERVATIVE MENTATOR ALLIE BETH STUCKEY A TWEET, ADDG THAT “MEN PRETENDG TO BE WOMEN SHOULD [NOT] BE CELEBRATED, PECIALLY BY CHILDREN.” EVEN REPRENTATIVE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE JUMPED ON THE WAR AGAST DRAG SAYG SHE WAS GOG TO PROPOSE A BILL MAKG ILLEGAL FOR CHILDREN TO BE EXPOSED TO DRAG PERFORMANC.“RANDOM DRAG QUEENS PUBLIC SPAC POSE EXACTLY 0 THREAT TO CHILDREN,” NATALIE WYNN, A POPULAR TRANS YOUTUBER, REMARKED ON THIS NTROVERSY A TWEET. “THE PEOPLE DON’T RE ABOUT PROTECTG CHILDREN, THEY RE ABOUT PROTECTG ‘CHILDHOOD NOCENCE’—IGNORANCE ROMANTICIZED; A BULLSH FANTASY MA UP BY ADULTS, REFLECTG EVERY ADULT PREJUDICE.”WYNN’S MENT UGHT NSERVATIVE PODSTER MATT WALSH’S ATTENTN, WHO RPONSE TO WYNN WROTE, “THE PEOPLE ARE MONSTERS” WHO “ACTIVELY WANT TO RPT YOUR CHILDREN.” WALSH, WHO APPARENTLY BEGAN UTILIZG THE “GROOMER” SMEAR AND PHG FOR LAWS TO BAN DRAG QUEEN STORYTELLG HOURS NEARLY A YEAR BEFORE SOME OF HIS PEERS JOED HIM, WENT ON TO WRE, “THIS IS WHY WE MT OPPOSE THEM WH EVERY FIBER OF OUR BEG, NO MATTER WHAT.” (MIGHT BE WORTH NOTG THAT WALSH, A CATHOLIC, HAS SHOWN FAR LS NCERN AND IRE TOWARD THE LARGT GROOMG SNDAL MORN HISTORY. “THE PEDOPHILE SNDAL THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS NOT A PEDOPHILE SNDAL. THE VAST MAJORY OF VICTIMS ARE POST-PUBCENT TEENS AND YOUNG MEN,” HE WROTE 2018. “THE REAL PROBLEM THE CHURCH THAT EVERYONE SE AND FEW WILL SAY OUT LOUD: GAY PRITS.”)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHIS MPAIGN TO SEEMGLY OSTRACIZE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE OM SOCIETY ISN’T JT PLAYG OUT BETWEEN NSERVATIVE PUNDS; THERE’S A GROWG LEGAL PH TO DIFY BANS AGAST TALKG ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY CLASSROOMS, LIMG TRANS KIDS’ ABILI TO PARTICIPATE SPORTS, AND RECEIVE APPROPRIATE GENR-AFFIRMG HEALTH RE. DEMOCRATS HAVE TAKEN NOTICE TOO; ON WEDNDAY PRINT JOE BIN SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORR TO EXPAND ROURC TO LGBTQ+ AMERINS, OM HOG IATIV, TO HEALTH RE, AS WELL AS RCG THE EXPOSURE OF MORS TO NVERSN THERAPY.IN A STATEMENT TO VANY FAIR, AM PALEY, THE CEO OF THE TREVOR PROJECT, A LGBTQ+ YOUTH ADVOCY ANIZATN, WARNED THAT THE ANTI-TRANS NARRATIV BEG PROPAGATED BY NSERVATIV ULD HAVE DIRE NSEQUENC. “THE RURGENCE OF REGRSIVE ANTI-LGBTQ ATTACKS THAT SEEK TO SMEAR ADULTS—CLUDG PARENTS, TEACHERS, UNSELORS, AND DOCTORS—WHO AFFIRM AND SUPPORT LGBTQ YOUTH IS CREDIBLY DANGERO,” SAID PALEY, “AND DIVERTS ATTENTN AWAY OM THE CRIL WORK BEG DONE TO PREVENT AND ADDRS ACTUAL CHILD ABE AND SEXUAL ASSLT PERPETRATED AGAST LGBTQ YOUTH.”SOME LGBTQ+ AMERINS HAVE ALREADY EXPERIENCED NEW THREATS SET OFF BY THE RIGHT'S LATT MORAL CSA. AT AN IDAHO PRI EVENT SATURDAY, 31 MEMBERS OF PATRT FRONT, A WHE NATNALIST GROUP, WERE ARRTED FOR NSPIRACY TO RT AFTER THEY TRAVELED TO THE EVENT ARMED WH SHIELDS, METAL POL, AND AT LEAST ONE SMOKE GRENA. THAT SAME DAY, A GROUP OF PROUD BOYS STORMED A CALIFORNIA LIBRARY’S DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR AND BEGAN HURLG ANTI-TRANS AND ANTIGAY SLURS AT ATTEN. SIARLY, A BAND OF REPORTED “CHRISTIAN FASCISTS” HARASSED AND THREATENED PATRONS OF DRAG QUEEN BNCH DALLAS LAST WEEK. DURG THE CINT, THE GROUP BEGAN DIRECTG “GROOMER” CHANTS AT THE EVENT’S PARTICIPANTS AND GUTS.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)CALEB ERMA
• LIGHTYEAR: DISNEY FOLLOWG THROUGH ON S “NOT-SO-SECRET GAY AGENDA”
• REPORT: DISNEY TO INCLU GAY RELATNSHIP IN LIGHTYEAR MOVIE
• BUZZ LIGHTYEAR’S GAY AGENDA
• SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)

'LIGHTYEAR' STAR CHRIS EVANS LLS CRICS OF DISNEY PIXAR'S GAY KISSG SCENE ‘IDTS’

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. Me unr fire for s ial silence regardg a Florida bill rtrictg classroom discsn of sexual orientatn and genr inty — dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” by crics. Durg the tumult, Pixar employe lled out Disney executiv for cuttg “nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn” om the animatn stud’s films.

PIXAR’S LIGHTYEAR IS TRIGGERG THE LATT RIGHT-WG ANTI-LGBTQ+ PANICCONSERVATIV ARE PHG TO ERASE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE OM PUBLIC LIFE, BANNG TALK OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN SCHOOLS, TARGETG DRAG PERFORMANC, AND MORE. THE LATT TARGET: ATTACKG THE PORTRAYAL OF A LBIAN UPLE THE TOY STORY SP-OFF OUT THIS WEEK.BY CALEB ERMAJUNE 16, 2022© WALT DISNEY CO./EVERETT COLLECTN.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHE NSERVATIVE OUTRAGE MACHE HAS PICKED S NEXT TARGET AND ’S ABOUT TO H THEATERS: DISNEY-PIXAR’S LIGHTYEAR, THE TOY STORY SP-OFF MOVIE OUT FRIDAY. “DISNEY WORKS TO PH A ‘NOT-AT-ALL-SECRET GAY AGENDA’…PARENTS SHOULD KEEP THAT MD BEFORE CIDG WHETHER TO TAKE THEIR KIDS TO SEE ‘LIGHTYEAR,’” TWEETED BEN SHAPIRO, ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR RIGHT-WG PODST HOSTS. HIS POST CLUD A SCREENSHOT OM THE UPG ANIMATED MOVIE THAT FEATUR TWO LBIAN PARENTS EMBRACG EACH OTHER. “CHILDREN ARE NOT ADULTS. WHAT MAY BE APPROPRIATE FOR ADULTS IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN,” THE PODSTER NTUED. “THAT THIS MT BE SAID MONSTRAT THAT OUR SOCIETY IS A STATE OF MORAL LLAPSE.”SHAPIRO’S PORTRAYAL OF LGBTQ+ PEOPLE AND RELATNSHIPS AS HERENTLY LEWD OR PORNOGRAPHIC, AND TH, APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN, HAS BEE THE NORM AMONG MANY NSERVATIV. OVER THE PAST THREE MONTHS, THE BIGGT NAM NSERVATIVE MEDIA HAVE RURRECTED AN ALL-OUT WAR AGAST LGBTQ+ AMERINS, ATTEMPTG TO TRIGGER A MORAL PANIC THAT IS GROWG MORE EXTREME AND MORE WISPREAD WH EACH PASSG WEEK. AS STATE LEGISLATUR TEE UP HUNDREDS OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ PROPOSALS THIS YEAR, A STUDY OM THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN CLARED THAT 2022 ULD BE THE MOST ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATIVE YEAR HISTORY, PER USA TODAY. THIS MPAIGN HAS ALSO LATED NSERVATIVE MEDIA; MARCH, FAR-RIGHT PUNDS BEGAN MALIGNG TORS WHO TALK ABOUT GENR INTY OR SEXUAL ORIENTATN AS “GROOMERS” WHO SEEK TO PREY ON SCHOOLCHILDREN. THE REVIVAL OF THIS AGE-OLD SMEAR WAS ADOPTED BY SOME OF THE RIGHT’S MOST POPULAR PUNDS AND POLICIANS. BUT THE FOC OF THE ATTACKS HAS SCE SHIFTED OM SCHOOLS, EVOLVG TO MUCH BROAR ATTACKS ON LGBTQ+ PEOPLE ALL PUBLIC SPAC.IN A TOWNHALL LUMN TLED “WHEN A KISS IS NOT JT A KISS,” TALK RAD HOST LARRY O’CONNOR PHED BACK AGAST A PEREZ HILTON TWEET NOTG THAT LIGHTYEAR IS “BANNED MULTIPLE UNTRI OVER A GAY KISS. CARTOONS KISSING, Y’ALL. THAT’S SOME MMENT TO HOMOPHOBIA.”“THIS IS THE STANDARD RPONSE WHENEVER OBJECTNS ARE RAISED TO THE SLOW-MOTN GRADATN OF OUR PRCIPL AND VALU THAT WE TRY TO STILL OUR CHILDREN,” O’CONNOR WROTE. “NOW, DISNEY HAS CID TO WARP S CREDIBILY WH PARENTS EVERYWHERE BY LETTG KNOW THAT EVEN S RTOONS ARE NO LONGER EE OM NTENT THAT MIGHT BE OBJECTNABLE.” LIKEWISE, THE AMERIN CONSERVATIVE’S ROD DREHER NMNED DISNEY’S CISN TO CLU THE LIGHTYEAR SCENE, ACCG THE PANY OF APPEASG A “WOKE MOB THAT WANTS TO SEXUALIZE CHILDREN” AND TRYG TO “TURN POPULAR ART TO CULTURE-WAR PROPAGANDA.” (AT ONE POT, DISNEY HIGHER-UPS REPORTEDLY CID TO REMOVE THE SCENE WHICH THE LBIAN UPLE SHAR A KISS, BUT THEY REVERSED THAT CISN MARCH RPONSE TO EMPLOYEE PROTTS OVER ANTI-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATN BEG PASSED FLORIDA.)“IT’S GREAT THAT ’S BACK THE FILM,” ACTOR CHRIS EVANS, WHO VOIC THE CHARACTER BUZZ LIGHTYEAR, TOLD VANY FAIR AT LAST WEEK’S WORLD PREMIERE. “I THK ’S A SHAME THAT ’S SUCH A STORY. IT SHOULD BE MORE NORMALIZED, BUT I’M GLAD WE ARE MAKG THOSE STEPS.”IT’S NOT JT MOVI. IN A DIRECT REBUTTAL TO PRI MONTH CELEBRATNS TAKG PLACE ACROSS THE UNTRY, NSERVATIV HAVE ALSO NOUNCED LGBTQ+ SPAC AS NATELY PRAVED AND UNF FOR CHILDREN. “IT’S OK TO JT SAY YOU DON’T WANT KIDS TO GO TO DRAG SHOWS BEE YOU DON’T WANT THEM TO SEE MEN DRSED UP LIKE WOMEN,” WROTE NSERVATIVE MENTATOR ALLIE BETH STUCKEY A TWEET, ADDG THAT “MEN PRETENDG TO BE WOMEN SHOULD [NOT] BE CELEBRATED, PECIALLY BY CHILDREN.” EVEN REPRENTATIVE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE JUMPED ON THE WAR AGAST DRAG SAYG SHE WAS GOG TO PROPOSE A BILL MAKG ILLEGAL FOR CHILDREN TO BE EXPOSED TO DRAG PERFORMANC.“RANDOM DRAG QUEENS PUBLIC SPAC POSE EXACTLY 0 THREAT TO CHILDREN,” NATALIE WYNN, A POPULAR TRANS YOUTUBER, REMARKED ON THIS NTROVERSY A TWEET. “THE PEOPLE DON’T RE ABOUT PROTECTG CHILDREN, THEY RE ABOUT PROTECTG ‘CHILDHOOD NOCENCE’—IGNORANCE ROMANTICIZED; A BULLSH FANTASY MA UP BY ADULTS, REFLECTG EVERY ADULT PREJUDICE.”WYNN’S MENT UGHT NSERVATIVE PODSTER MATT WALSH’S ATTENTN, WHO RPONSE TO WYNN WROTE, “THE PEOPLE ARE MONSTERS” WHO “ACTIVELY WANT TO RPT YOUR CHILDREN.” WALSH, WHO APPARENTLY BEGAN UTILIZG THE “GROOMER” SMEAR AND PHG FOR LAWS TO BAN DRAG QUEEN STORYTELLG HOURS NEARLY A YEAR BEFORE SOME OF HIS PEERS JOED HIM, WENT ON TO WRE, “THIS IS WHY WE MT OPPOSE THEM WH EVERY FIBER OF OUR BEG, NO MATTER WHAT.” (MIGHT BE WORTH NOTG THAT WALSH, A CATHOLIC, HAS SHOWN FAR LS NCERN AND IRE TOWARD THE LARGT GROOMG SNDAL MORN HISTORY. “THE PEDOPHILE SNDAL THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS NOT A PEDOPHILE SNDAL. THE VAST MAJORY OF VICTIMS ARE POST-PUBCENT TEENS AND YOUNG MEN,” HE WROTE 2018. “THE REAL PROBLEM THE CHURCH THAT EVERYONE SE AND FEW WILL SAY OUT LOUD: GAY PRITS.”)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHIS MPAIGN TO SEEMGLY OSTRACIZE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE OM SOCIETY ISN’T JT PLAYG OUT BETWEEN NSERVATIVE PUNDS; THERE’S A GROWG LEGAL PH TO DIFY BANS AGAST TALKG ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY CLASSROOMS, LIMG TRANS KIDS’ ABILI TO PARTICIPATE SPORTS, AND RECEIVE APPROPRIATE GENR-AFFIRMG HEALTH RE. DEMOCRATS HAVE TAKEN NOTICE TOO; ON WEDNDAY PRINT JOE BIN SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORR TO EXPAND ROURC TO LGBTQ+ AMERINS, OM HOG IATIV, TO HEALTH RE, AS WELL AS RCG THE EXPOSURE OF MORS TO NVERSN THERAPY.IN A STATEMENT TO VANY FAIR, AM PALEY, THE CEO OF THE TREVOR PROJECT, A LGBTQ+ YOUTH ADVOCY ANIZATN, WARNED THAT THE ANTI-TRANS NARRATIV BEG PROPAGATED BY NSERVATIV ULD HAVE DIRE NSEQUENC. “THE RURGENCE OF REGRSIVE ANTI-LGBTQ ATTACKS THAT SEEK TO SMEAR ADULTS—CLUDG PARENTS, TEACHERS, UNSELORS, AND DOCTORS—WHO AFFIRM AND SUPPORT LGBTQ YOUTH IS CREDIBLY DANGERO,” SAID PALEY, “AND DIVERTS ATTENTN AWAY OM THE CRIL WORK BEG DONE TO PREVENT AND ADDRS ACTUAL CHILD ABE AND SEXUAL ASSLT PERPETRATED AGAST LGBTQ YOUTH.”SOME LGBTQ+ AMERINS HAVE ALREADY EXPERIENCED NEW THREATS SET OFF BY THE RIGHT'S LATT MORAL CSA. AT AN IDAHO PRI EVENT SATURDAY, 31 MEMBERS OF PATRT FRONT, A WHE NATNALIST GROUP, WERE ARRTED FOR NSPIRACY TO RT AFTER THEY TRAVELED TO THE EVENT ARMED WH SHIELDS, METAL POL, AND AT LEAST ONE SMOKE GRENA. THAT SAME DAY, A GROUP OF PROUD BOYS STORMED A CALIFORNIA LIBRARY’S DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR AND BEGAN HURLG ANTI-TRANS AND ANTIGAY SLURS AT ATTEN. SIARLY, A BAND OF REPORTED “CHRISTIAN FASCISTS” HARASSED AND THREATENED PATRONS OF DRAG QUEEN BNCH DALLAS LAST WEEK. DURG THE CINT, THE GROUP BEGAN DIRECTG “GROOMER” CHANTS AT THE EVENT’S PARTICIPANTS AND GUTS.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)CALEB ERMA

"Lightyear" actor Chris Evans, who plays the tular role Walt Disney’s new Pixar movie, has rpond to crics who say the film’s kissg scene between two female characters ph a pro-gay agenda. (Getty Imag)"Every time there’s been social advancement as we wake up, the Amerin story, the human story is one of nstant social awakeng and growth and that’s what mak good, " Evans 'S SHORT FILM ‘OUT’ FEATURES FIRST GAY MAIN CHARACTERThe ment as some crics of the film have argued the cisn to clu LGBTQ reprentatn and a scene wh a gay married uple kissg a film marketed to children was on-screen kiss tak place between Hawthorne, a female lead voiced by Uzo Aduba, and another female, PIXAR'S 'LIGHTYEAR' SEES SAME-SEX KISS RESTORED AMID CONTROVERSY WITH QUEER CHARACTER: REPORTIt was reportedly removed om the film earlier this year, amid ntroversy over Disney’s quietns over Florida’s "Don’t Say Gay" bill that barred nversatns about LGBTQ inty K-12 classrooms, Variety reported March of this year, cg "a source close to the productn. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERIt will not be shown the Uned Arab Emirat or Malaysia, due to the on-screen gay kiss.

“Disney works to ph a ‘not-at-all-secret gay agenda’…Parents should keep that md before cidg whether to take their kids to see ‘Lightyear, ’” tweeted Ben Shapiro, one of the most popular right-wg podst hosts.

LIGHTYEAR: DISNEY FOLLOWG THROUGH ON S “NOT-SO-SECRET GAY AGENDA”

But the foc of the attacks has sce shifted om schools, evolvg to much broar attacks on LGBTQ+ people all public a Townhall lumn tled “When a Kiss Is Not Jt a Kiss, ” talk rad host Larry O’Connor phed back agast a Perez Hilton tweet notg that Lightyear is “banned multiple untri over a gay kiss. That’s some mment to homophobia.

REPORT: DISNEY TO INCLU GAY RELATNSHIP IN LIGHTYEAR MOVIE

“The real problem the Church that everyone se and few will say out loud: gay prits.

That same day, a group of Proud Boys stormed a California library’s drag queen story hour and began hurlg anti-trans and antigay slurs at atten. 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. Ron DeSantis, spurred by Disney’s pledge March to help repeal what crics lled the “don’t say gay” bill, which bans schools om discsg sexual orientatn and genr inty gras K-3.

BUZZ LIGHTYEAR’S GAY AGENDA

The Florida clash followed reports that the kissg scene was cut but then add back after phback om “LGBTQIA+ employe of Pixar & their alli, ” who acced Disney a letter of removg scen of “gay affectn. “Nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn is cut at Disney’s beht, ” read the March 9 letter posted by Popular Informatn’s Judd Legum.

Director Ang MacLane said that makg the Space Ranger Commanr Alisha Hawthorne character gay was important for “reprentatn, ” and that the public display of affectn showed that she and her wife, Kiko, were a “lovg, lastg relatnship.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s film censors said Friday that was Disney’s cisn to ax the animated film “Lightyear” om the untry’s cemas after refg to cut scen promotg homosexualy. Many Mlims nsir gays and lbians to be sful and many Mlim-majory natns crimalize same-sex relatnships.

SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)

The same-sex marriage is a small part of the story and no one should be bothered by the existence of gay people, even a kids’ movie, but the shockg unrperformance mt have Disney wonrg whether people stayed away bee they thought (even if mistakenly) that “Lightyear” was a msage movie. Disney’s cisn to spend a uple of mut of screen time remdg that ’s a gay-iendly pany may well have st lns ticket sal for what was supposed to be s annual Pixar mega-blockbter.