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- SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
- LIGHTYEAR: PIXAR RTOR SAME-SEX KISS FOLLOWG ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL BACKLASH
- 'LIGHTYEAR' STAR CHRIS EVANS LLS CRICS OF DISNEY PIXAR'S GAY KISSG SCENE ‘IDTS’
- REPORT: DISNEY TO INCLU GAY RELATNSHIP IN LIGHTYEAR MOVIE
- DISNEY RTOR SAME-GENR ‘LIGHTYEAR’ KISS FOLLOWG “DON’T SAY GAY” BACKLASH
- PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ RTOR SAME-SEX KISS AFTER BACKLASH OVER DISNEY’S RPONSE TO FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL
SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
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LIGHTYEAR: PIXAR RTOR SAME-SEX KISS FOLLOWG ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL BACKLASH
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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. 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. This was amidst the pany’s disappotg rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
At the time, Disney held a virtual all-hands meetg where Latoya Ravene, one of the pany’s executive producers, fend the Moe Hoe, sayg everyone had been welg to her “not-at-all-secret gay agenda. In addn to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which forbids tn on sexualy and genr inty krgarten through third gra classrooms and was signed by Governor Ron DeSantis late March, there are several other measur currently workg their way through state legislatur. : It was ially cut om the film, then rtored after ternal uproar when was revealed Disney had donated $200, 000 to Republin policians who supported Florida's “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which forbids discsns of sexual orientatn elementary school Chris Evans' Buzz is more fantastic than plastic Pixar's spiffy 'Lightyear'The iendship between Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Chris Evans) and his manr Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) is at the heart of "Lightyear.
'LIGHTYEAR' STAR CHRIS EVANS LLS CRICS OF DISNEY PIXAR'S GAY KISSG SCENE ‘IDTS’
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Get our ee weekly email for all the latt cematic news om our film cric Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cematic email for eePixar has reportedly rtored a same-sex kiss shared between two characters the forthg Lightyear, after staff released an open letter cricisg Disney’s rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” new animated film featur Chris Evans as the voice of Buzz Lightyear and seeks to tell the orig story of the beloved Toy Story character and his journey to fy and an exclive report by Variety, a source close to the productn has nfirmed that a kiss between proment female character Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba) and her female partner was restated last week.
REPORT: DISNEY TO INCLU GAY RELATNSHIP IN LIGHTYEAR MOVIE
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While the nature of the characters’ relatnship hadn’t been qutned by productn, their kiss had reportedly been news follows the release of an open letter on 9 March by Pixar staff and LGBTQ alli cricisg Disney for havg same-sex reprentatn s films “shaved down to cmbs” the letter, staff further lled on Disney to “immediately whdraw all fancial support om the legislators behd the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill” a handful of LGBTQ characters have been rporated Pixar’s feature films. Notably, 2020 film Onward, the ma character Specter mak a reference to her film featur Chris Evans as the voice of Buzz Lightyear (YouTube)The same year, the stud released short film Out, about a closeted gay man’s stggle to e out to his rponse to the Pixar staff letter, Out director Steven Hunt told Variety: “I stand by my lleagu. "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 RTOR SAME-GENR ‘LIGHTYEAR’ KISS FOLLOWG “DON’T SAY GAY” BACKLASH
RELATED: Chris Evans Calls Crics Of Lightyear’s Gay Kiss “Idts” As His Film Is Banned In the Middle East. The move followed a a strongly-word letter to Walt Disney CEO Bob Chapek om Pixar's LGBTQIA+ employe and their alli sent objectg to his cisn not to ph back more forcefully agast Florida's ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill. Acrdg to Variety, the film has been banned the Gulf natns of Sdi Arabia, the Uned Arab Emirat and Kuwa, where homosexual nduct is still illegal.
A first look at Disney and Pixar's "Lightyear" on Wednday nfirmed a same-sex kiss had been rtored followg recent kiss occurred the first 30 mut of the movie, which was shown to an dience Wednday at CemaCon, acrdg to kiss was reportedly removed and then restated after backlash over the lack of rponse om Disney over Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill. A first look at Disney Pixar's "Lightyear" nfirmed that a same-sex kiss scene had been rtored to the film followg ntroversy over Disney's lack of rponse to Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill. The moment occurs between the character Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) and her partner the animated 'S SHORT FILM ‘OUT’ FEATURES FIRST GAY MAIN CHARACTERThe "Lightyear" character isn't the first LGBTQ-oriented character a Pixar most proment character is a cyclops police officer named Specter featured the animated film "Onward.
PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ RTOR SAME-SEX KISS AFTER BACKLASH OVER DISNEY’S RPONSE TO FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL
"CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER The move after a letter om Pixar employe acced Disney executiv of mandg cuts om "nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn, " acrdg to a letter sent to the pany by the employe. (Getty Imag)The rtoratn of the same-sex kiss after employe at Pixar acced Disney of censorg same-sex affectn Pixar executiv have wanted to cut "nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn… regardls of when there is prott om both the creative teams and executive learship at Pixar, " acrdg to a letter om the employe sent to Disney and obtaed by Variety.
Backlash ntu over Disney's rporate rponse to the "Don't Say Gay" bill Florida.
Expertise News Disney's Pixar has rtored a same-sex kiss to s Buzz Lightyear orig story after employe protted the removal of gay storyl om Pixar films, a report Friday said. The kiss was subsequently restated after employee prott amid the backlash agast Disney learship not immediately nmng the so-lled Don't Say Gay bill Florida.