Disney will feature s first animated character who is out about beg gay, Officer Specter, the Pixar film “Onward”.
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- ONWARD’S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER STILL LEAV DISNEY BEHD S PETORS
- PIXAR’S ONWARD FALLY GETS THE “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” RIGHT
- PIXAR’S FIRST OUT GAY CHARACTER TO BE VOICED BY LENA WAHE ‘ONWARD’
- PIXAR'S ONWARD 'BANNED BY FOUR MIDDLE EAST UNTRI' OVER GAY REFERENCE
- DISNEY INTRODUC ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN TOM HOLLAND'S ONWARD
- ONWARD’S GAY CHARACTER PROV DISNEY’S REPRENTATN PROBLEM
- DISNEY ARE BEG LLED OUT OVER THEIR "FIRST OPENLY GAY" ANIMATED CHARACTER
- LENA WAHE WILL VOICE PIXAR'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER ONWARD
- 'ONWARD' TRODUC DISNEY'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER
- DISNEY HAS FIRST OPENLY GAY ANIMATED CHARACTER PIXAR’S ‘ONWARD’
ONWARD’S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER STILL LEAV DISNEY BEHD S PETORS
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PIXAR’S ONWARD FALLY GETS THE “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” RIGHT
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PIXAR’S FIRST OUT GAY CHARACTER TO BE VOICED BY LENA WAHE ‘ONWARD’
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PIXAR'S ONWARD 'BANNED BY FOUR MIDDLE EAST UNTRI' OVER GAY REFERENCE
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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.
DISNEY INTRODUC ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN TOM HOLLAND'S ONWARD
It’s been a long wa, but a Disney heroe fally has a girliend … and ’s not Elsa. Months after "The Rise of Skywalker" featured the first same-sex kiss the "Star Wars" galaxy, the new animated film "Onward" troduc the first self-intified lbian character to the Disney-Pixar universe. Her name is Officer Specter, and she’s a Cyclops p voiced by openly gay screenwrer and actrs Lena Wahe. * pixar onward gay *
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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.
ONWARD’S GAY CHARACTER PROV DISNEY’S REPRENTATN PROBLEM
(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. Disney Pl’ High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri featur a gay romance.
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From the “exclively gay moment” the live-actn Bety and the Beast to a kiss between two mor female characters last year’s The Rise of Skywalker, each baby step has been preced by a flotilla of verage proclaimg the advance—and each has been followed by the evable sense of nfn and betrayal when viewers see the movie and realize, That’s ? The makers of Star Trek Beyond were eager to make sure you knew that s versn of Sulu was gay, even though they eded out the only physil sign of his affectns.
DISNEY ARE BEG LLED OUT OVER THEIR "FIRST OPENLY GAY" ANIMATED CHARACTER
(See: the gay bt iend nnumerable’90s rom-s. Or would Lawrence have been trotted out for a seri of fensive terviews explag that her character really was gay, but movi are plited and you have to serve the story—and who knows, maybe they’ll clu the leted scen. It’s important not to make too much of Onward’s exclively gay moment—or even to make too much of the movie not makg too much of .
LENA WAHE WILL VOICE PIXAR'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER ONWARD
After all, children’s animated movi, pecially those om gay filmmakers—cludg ParaNorman and the How to Tra Your Dragon films—have been quietly cludg moments like this for years, whout anyone pattg themselv on the back.
'ONWARD' TRODUC DISNEY'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER
Officer Specter is voiced by Emmy award-wng screenwrer and actrs Lena Wahe, who is openly gay. Her name is Officer Specter, and she’s a Cyclops p voiced by openly gay screenwrer and actrs Lena Wahe. “We reprent a gay fay, and have a child, ” Sleiman revealed a recent terview wh the webse NewNowNext, addg that they filmed the MCU’s first same-sex kiss as well.
DISNEY HAS FIRST OPENLY GAY ANIMATED CHARACTER PIXAR’S ‘ONWARD’
But Disney has a pattern of blk-and-you’ll-miss- LGBTQ moments, and that mak the ton creasgly difficult to was the much-hyped “exclively gay moment” 2017’s live-actn “Bety and the Beast” that end up beg more than a ltle lacklter: Gaston’s sikick LeFou, whom the film hts harbors some romantic feelgs for the arrogant villa, is briefly shown dancg wh another man durg the celebratn at the end of the Marvel Cematic Universe featured s first queer character 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame” the form of an unnamed man who appears one group unselg scene and sually mentns datg men. The Disney+ seri “High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri” troduced the anchise’s first gay love story last year.
The MCU’s upg “The Eternals, ” slated for release November, will feature an openly gay superhero who is married and has a fay. Pixar’s g out wh s first openly gay character — a lbian police officer voiced by “Master of None” actrs-wrer Lena Wahe.