Same-sex kiss cut om Lightyear reportedly rtored after Disney's 'Don't Say Gay' backlash
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- SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
- 'LIGHTYEAR': DISNEY RTOR SCRAPPED GAY KISS FOLLOWG BACKLASH
- SAME-SEX KISS CUT OM LIGHTYEAR REPORTEDLY RTORED AFTER DISNEY'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BACKLASH
SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
Disney has add back the queer kiss om the upg film Lightyear, followg the backlash they received for supportg the Don't Say Gay bill. * did they remove the gay kiss from lightyear *
On March 9, LGBTQ employe and alli at Pixar Animatn Studs sent a jot statement to Walt Disney Company learship claimg that Disney executiv had actively censored “overtly gay affectn” s feature films. The stunng allegatn — ma as part of a larger prott over the pany’s lack of public rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill — did not clu which Pixar films had weathered the censorship, nor which specific creative cisns were cut or altered.
'LIGHTYEAR': DISNEY RTOR SCRAPPED GAY KISS FOLLOWG BACKLASH
Disney executiv reportedly have a ban on the stud's films featurg "gay affectn". * did they remove the gay kiss from lightyear *
Followg the uproar surroundg the Pixar employe’ statement and Disney CEO Bob Chapek’s handlg of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, however, the kiss was restated to the movie last week. The most overtly LGBTQ project Pixar’s non is a 2020 short film, “Out, ” about a gay man stgglg wh g out to his parents — which the stud released on Disney Pl as part of s SparkShorts program. “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, ” the statement says.
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.
SAME-SEX KISS CUT OM LIGHTYEAR REPORTEDLY RTORED AFTER DISNEY'S '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.