New short film 'Out' featur Pixar's first gay ma character

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• PIXAR SHORT FILM ‘OUT’ FEATUR STUD’S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER
• PIXAR SHORT FILM 'OUT' FEATUR FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER
• NEW SHORT FILM 'OUT' FEATUR PIXAR'S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER
• PIXAR’S FIRST OUT GAY CHARACTER TO BE VOICED BY LENA WAHE ‘ONWARD’
• ONWARD’S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER STILL LEAV DISNEY BEHD S PETORS
• PIXAR SHORT ‘OUT’ FEATUR THE STUD’S FIRST GAY LEAD CHARACTER
• IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE? MAYBE
• PIXAR SHORT FILM ‘OUT’ FEATUR STUD’S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER
• PIXAR SHORT ‘OUT’ ON DISNEY+ FEATUR ANIMATN STUD’S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER
• PIXAR'S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER ARRIV MOVG DISNEY+ SHORT FILM
• PIXAR’S “OUT” WILL FEATURE DISNEY’S FIRST ANIMATED GAY MA CHARACTER - INSI THE MAGIC
• PIXAR'S NEW SHORT FILM 'OUT' FEATUR FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER

PIXAR SHORT FILM ‘OUT’ FEATUR STUD’S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe animated film follows a gay man’s journey to acceptance as he prepar to move to a cy wh his May 24, 2020Updated May 27, 2020The man nervoly practic ont of his dog how he is gog to tell his parents he is gay. “Jt look them the ey and say, ‘Mom, Dad, I’m — this is my boyiend, Manuel, ’” Greg says, holdg a amed photo of himself wh his boyiend ’s a scene om “Out, ” the new short film om Pixar Animatn Studs that troduc the stud’s first gay ma character. Advocy anizatn, appld the film’s gay narrative.

“By centerg on a young gay man, ‘Out’ jt raised the bar for cln kids and fay programmg. In the 2019 Marvel movie “Avengers: Endgame, ” there was a brief appearance by a gay the 2017 live-actn remake of “Bety and the Beast, ” LeFou, Gaston’s sikick played by Josh Gad, was prented as Diaz is a general assignment reporter verg breakg news.

PIXAR SHORT FILM 'OUT' FEATUR FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER

More about Johnny DiazA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 19 of the New York edn wh the headle: Pixar Film ‘Out’ Featur Stud’s First Gay Lead.

No one lov a 'first gay character' more than Disney. Disney has been que a b of hot, gay water recent years. The pany has never been known for s great LGBTQ+ reprentatn or polics, but 's e unr even more scty than ual after fans learned that the pany was donatg money to legislators Florida backg that state's ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill.

Especially when the news broke that Pixar has been censorg gay ntent out of s films for Disney really been producg enough spirg ntent to unteract s donatns and lack of a statement?

NEW SHORT FILM 'OUT' FEATUR PIXAR'S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER

RELATED | 11 Gay, Bi, & Lbian Creators Who Ma Disney What It Is Today. First Gay Married Couple: Bucky and Pronk Oryx-Antlerson 'Zootopia' (2016).

Fans didn't even notice this gay married uple Zootopia until years after the movie me out.

First 'Exclively Gay Moment:' LeFou 'Bety and the Beast' (2017). When this live-actn remake me out, Disney touted LeFou (played by Josh Gad) as beg their first gay character and even said that he had an "exclively gay moment" the film. When turned out that gay moment was a flash of him dancg wh another man a group scene, fans weren't so exced.

PIXAR’S FIRST OUT GAY CHARACTER TO BE VOICED BY LENA WAHE ‘ONWARD’

First Gay Character the MCU: Grievg Man 'Avengers: Endgame' (2019). Disney and Marvel Studs proudly announced that 2019 they had troduced their first gay character the Marvel Cematic Universe, only to have fans fd out that was an unnamed character one scene played by the movie's straight -director.

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

Aga, they're only shown kissg for a send, but hey, at least we know that gays exist space. First Major Gay Character: MacGregor 'Jungle Cise' (2021). MacGregor, played by Jack Whehall, was supposed to be Disney's "first major gay character" when Jungle Cise was set to be released way back 2019, but bee of the global panmic, the film was layed until 2021.

First Gay Superhero the MCU: Phastos 'Eternals' (2021).

PIXAR SHORT ‘OUT’ FEATUR THE STUD’S FIRST GAY LEAD CHARACTER

Marvel's first gay superhero and the first married gay uple the MCU both happened 2021, which was que the year for "First Gays" for the pany. It took only 13 years and two dozen movi for Marvel to troduce a gay superhero. First Major Gay Character (Aga): Artie 'Cella' (2021).

Artie is one of several characters advertised as the pany's "first major gay character" after both LeFou Bety and the Beast and MacGregor the layed-for-several-years Jungle Cise. First Gay Disney Love Song: 'High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri' (2021). In one of the episos season 2, Seb is worried that Carlos is only datg him bee he's the only other gay kid he knows.

IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE? MAYBE

After news broke that Disney not only donated to legislators backg anti-gay bills, but also repeatedly cut queer ntent om their movi, Pixar cid to rtore a scene the Lightyear film where a female character named Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba) kiss her female partner. First Openly Gay Teen Romance a Feature: 'Strange World' (2022).

Comedian Jaboie Young-Whe will be voicg a new character the upg animated film Strange World who is volved "the first openly gay teen romance a Disney feature" acrdg to Twter er Matthiew Saghezchi, who saw a clip om the film at the Annecy 2022 ftival. A heartwarmg tale that fally gets explic about s ’s first openly gay ma character has buted a new short film tled “Out.

PIXAR SHORT FILM ‘OUT’ FEATUR STUD’S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER

”The ne-mute short film, which released on Disney Pl on Friday, tells the story of a man named Greg, who stggl wh g out as gay to his parents, tratg his partner Manuel. Technilly, this isn’t the first gay character a Pixar film, although is certaly the first gay ma character. When Pixar’s Onward released last March, actrs Lena Wahe voiced a gay cyclops who worked as a police officer.

In olr films, like Toy Story 4 and Fdg Dory, Pixar has add very mor evince of gay characters, cludg a brief shot of two women who fans spected were a lbian uple. Oddly enough, an ET Canada terview, Fdg Dory star Ellen Degener (herself one of the first openly gay actors ntemporary Hollywood) said that there was no lbian uple the film simply bee one had short hair.

Avengers: Endgame featured -director Joe Rso makg a meo as a gay man Capta Ameri’s therapy group who briefly mentns he is gog on a date wh another man.

PIXAR SHORT ‘OUT’ ON DISNEY+ FEATUR ANIMATN STUD’S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER

As for future properti, Marvel’s The Eternals is set to feature an openly gay superhero. Many people have drawn a parison to a scene om the s The Other Two, which featur fake Disney executiv troducg their first gay character to a everyone is makg jok onle, as numero social media ers ngratulated nonbary voice actor Kai Ava Hser, who announced they would be voicg the groundbreakg character the new movie. "The goo is homosexual, isn't that credible?

" The scene and storyle of a gay actor voicg a gay "glob" featur The Other Two's Season 3 Episo 6 "Brooke, and We Are Not Jokg, Go to Space. "Out, " a short film that featur Pixar's first gay ma character, was released Friday on film, which is part of the platform's SparkShorts seri, follows the story of Greg, whose excement about movg wh his boyiend, Manuel, is unrcut by his anxiety over not beg out to his parents.

Pixar’s g out wh s first openly gay character — a lbian police officer voiced by “Master of None” actrs-wrer Lena Wahe. In 2017, a live-actn remake of “Bety and the Beast, ” had the first openly gay character a Disney film. Onward, Pixar’s first non-sequel movie sce 2017’s Co, notably featur the stud’s first openly gay character.

PIXAR'S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER ARRIV MOVG DISNEY+ SHORT FILM

This one le, livered passg wh no follow-up, marks the first verbal regnn of a character’s gay relatnship an animated Disney movie.

Elsa’s new ballad, “Show Yourself, ” sound pretty dang gay.

PIXAR’S “OUT” WILL FEATURE DISNEY’S FIRST ANIMATED GAY MA CHARACTER - INSI THE MAGIC

Whether animators vertly add those gay moments, or ’s jt fans projectg, the bt-se scenar for Disney is to let LGBTQ muni celebrate potentially gay characters whout the pany havg to acknowledge their queerns. Disney’s dience is huge, and unfortunately, clus vol homophob — both the Stat and ternatnal markets, cludg untri where beg gay n land you jail — as well as queer viewers sperate for reprentatn. A nice gay moment.

Thanks large part to lobbyg om fans, Disney started featurg explicly gay characters recent years — mostly blk-and-you’ll-miss- moments.

Back 2017, director Bill Condon ma headl when he announced that his live-actn Bety and the Beast remake would feature “a nice, exclively gay moment” urty of Josh Gad’s LeFou. The obsequ sikick to Bety and the Beast’s Gaston had always been spected of admirg the swaggerg villa as more than jt a ra, but acrdg to Condon (who is openly gay himself), his versn of LeFou would be explicly cshg on Gaston.

PIXAR'S NEW SHORT FILM 'OUT' FEATUR FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER

That “exclively gay moment” end up beg even more disappotg, however, when only amounted to some (by Condon’s own admissn) “subtle” flirtg, and a few sends of footage where LeFou and a man drag lli at a celebratn.

Avengers: Endgame -director Joe Rso said that was so important to him that Marvel movi reflect the queer muny that he wanted to play the Marvel Cematic Universe’s first gay character himself. (Marvel Studs print Kev Feige has nfirmed that there will be fally be a gay superhero the MCU, urty of Brian Tyree Henry’s character The Eternals.

Cys Goodman, the bt-iend character on Disney Channel’s Andi Mack, me out as gay a 2017 episo.