Pixar's 'Onward' Introduc Disney's First Openly Gay Character

Contents:

• 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

Onward, Pixar’s first non-sequel movie sce 2017’s Co, notably featur the stud’s first openly gay character.

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. 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.

PIXAR’S ONWARD FALLY GETS THE “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” RIGHT

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.

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

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.

PIXAR'S ONWARD 'BANNED BY FOUR MIDDLE EAST UNTRI' OVER GAY REFERENCE

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.

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.

DISNEY INTRODUC ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN TOM HOLLAND'S ONWARD

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. ” In this se, the sexual exploratn happens to be gay, while films like Never Been Kissed and 10 Thgs I Hate About You, which feature siar high-school sexual terrory, are still on the platform.

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.

ONWARD’S GAY CHARACTER PROV DISNEY’S REPRENTATN PROBLEM

(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 . 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.

DISNEY ARE BEG LLED OUT OVER THEIR "FIRST OPENLY GAY" ANIMATED 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.

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. In 2017, a live-actn remake of “Bety and the Beast, ” had the first openly gay character a Disney film.

LENA WAHE WILL VOICE PIXAR'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER ONWARD

Image source, PixarPixar's latt animatn Onward has been banned by several Middle Eastern untri bee of a reference to lbian parents, acrdg to fay film will not be shown Kuwa, Oman, Qatar and Sdi Arabia, Hollywood media have officer Specter, voiced by Lena Wahe, has been herald as Disney-Pixar's first openly gay character. ' I even have a gay voice, I thk. Meanwhile, more major Hollywood films have enuntered problems wh censors nservative untri as more gay characters have been year, Rsia censored scen the Sir Elton John bpic Rocketman and Avengers: Endgame as a rult of LGBT referenc.

In 2017, Disney's Bety and the Beast was banned markets cludg Kuwa and Malaysia over a reference to Josh Gad's character LeFou beg gay.

In recent years, Disney has ma ty ltle baby steps toward greater LGBTQ reprentatn, wh an "exclively gay moment" the live-actn remake of Bety and the Beast, a mor gay character  Avengers: Endgame, and the blk-and-you'll-miss- same-sex kiss of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. While the "exclively gay moment" the Bety and the Beast live-actn remake ma some splashy headl, once the film was released, was clear that the moment was more implied than explicly queer.

'ONWARD' TRODUC DISNEY'S FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER

And while the Avengers: Endgame scene was able to rile up a few nservative moviegoers wh s mentn of gay datg, was a le still uttered by a mor character — played by the heterosexual director at that. Lena Wahe plays Disney's first openly gay character. Actrs, Lena Wahe, plays Disney's first openly gay character Pixar's upg fantasy adventure, Onward.

Disney have, the past, nfirmed several of their characters to be gay, cludg LeFou the live-actn remake of Bety and the Beast, wh a cute payoff towards the end of the film. For example, one of Ian's (Tom Holland) classmat n be seen walkg on Wahe also shared her excement wh beg Disney's first openly gay character, by sharg a new snippet on her Insatgram to her 840k followers, simply ptng wh the rabow emoji.

Meet Officer Specter, a cyclops police officer voiced by gay Emmy-wng Master of None actrs and screenwrer Lena Wahe. And many viewers have speculated that certa characters Disney movi, such as Elsa om Frozen and Li Shang om Mulan, were secretly gay or bisexual, and such notg perceived subtext the relatnship between Gaston and Le Fou the live-actn versn of Bety and the Pratt and Tom Holland portray the ma characters  Onward, teenagers Ian and Barley Lightfoot, who embark on a road trip to rurrect their ad father for 24 hours. Officer Spector, the much-hyped gay character Onward, is the latt example of Disney's problem when to reprentatn their movi.

DISNEY HAS FIRST OPENLY GAY ANIMATED CHARACTER PIXAR’S ‘ONWARD’

The much-hyped gay character Onward is the latt example of Disney's problem when to queer reprentatn their movi. And while they did recently clu a gay lead (namely, Frankie A.

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