Pixar Short Film 'Out' Featur Stud's First Gay Ma Character - Variety

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• NEW SHORT FILM 'OUT' FEATUR PIXAR'S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER
• THE TE STORY BEHD OUT, PIXAR'S GROUNDBREAKG GAY SHORT FILM
• PIXAR'S NEW SHORT FILM, 'OUT,' IS ABOUT A GAY MAN WHO FDS LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE, AND MANY FANS ARE LLG AN UPLIFTG STORY
• PIXAR'S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER ARRIV MOVG DISNEY+ SHORT FILM
• PIXAR SHORT ‘OUT’ FEATUR THE STUD’S FIRST GAY LEAD CHARACTER
• PIXAR SHORT FILM ‘OUT’ FEATUR STUD’S FIRST GAY MA CHARACTER
• PIXAR MAK PROGRS WH DISNEY+ SHORT ‘OUT’ FEATURG ANIMATN STUD’S FIRST GAY LEAD
• DISNEY+ RELEAS 'OUT,' FEATURG PIXAR'S FIRST GAY LEAD CHARACTER
• PIXAR SHORT ‘OUT’ PROV GAY STORI CAN LIVE ON FAY-FRIENDLY DISNEY+
• 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 FEATUR FIRST GAY LEAD NEW ANIMATED SHORT ‘OUT’
• PIXAR’S SHORT FILM OUT DEBUTS FIRST GAY LEAD
• SAME-SEX KISS ‘LIGHTYEAR’ RTORED TO PIXAR FILM’S FAL CUT AFTER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ OUTRAGE
• PIXAR'S SHORT FILM 'OUT' FEATUR STUD'S FIRST GAY LEAD CHARACTER

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

"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. Outma history as the first Pixar film to feature a gay lead character.

He spoke wh iends and other gay men about their experienc.

"Cocintally, Out premiered on Harvey Milk Day, which honors the assassated gay polician.

THE TE STORY BEHD OUT, PIXAR'S GROUNDBREAKG GAY SHORT FILM

"Did Hunter and Sachar have to "protect" Out om Pixar executiv who may have wanted to -gay or shelve the productn?

Pixar's new short film, 'Out, ' is about a gay man who fds love and acceptance, and many fans are llg an upliftg story. This marks Pixar's first attempt to feature an openly gay character a central role.

PIXAR'S NEW SHORT FILM, 'OUT,' IS ABOUT A GAY MAN WHO FDS LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE, AND MANY FANS ARE LLG AN UPLIFTG STORY

Related ntent: Could the heroe of Pixar's Brave be gay? Pixar’s new short film “Out” is remiscent of classic Disney body-swap edi like “Freaky Friday” and the “Shaggy Dog” movi, but ’s also a first for the stud, bee s ma character is gay. The story revolv around a young man named Greg, who’s aaid to tell his parents that he’s gay and is worried that they will see a picture of him and his boyiend when they e help him move.

A study released last year by the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) found that only 18.

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

Disney has clud LGBTQ upl some of s blockbters – Gaston’s sikick LeFou was portrayed as gay the live-actn versn of “Bety and the Beast, ” and there was a brief kiss between two female rebel fighters “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. A character also me out as gay on the Disney Channel seri “Andi Mack, ” which ran for three seasons before wrappg up last year.

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.

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

“By centerg on a young gay man, ‘Out’ jt raised the bar for cln kids and fay programmg.

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

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. 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.

“Out” centers on a young gay man, Greg, who’s not out to his parents and is (naturally) about to move to the big cy to live wh his boyiend, Manuel. Almost shockgly, a gay uple is even seen kissg, albe briefly, this otherwise tame but still revolutnary s own way film, as featur animatn stud Pixar’s first gay lead. One small step to normalizg gay characters animated films for youngsters.

Pixar, earlier this year, featured a gay character promently the animated h “Onward, ” which is also available to stream on Disney+. One of them is a purple cyclops named Specter, who’s voiced by Lena Wahe and is, acrdg to the stud, Disney’s first openly gay character. There are lots of g out stori whether you're lbian, gay, straight, bisexual, trans- lik there's so many stori that n be told.

PIXAR MAK PROGRS WH DISNEY+ SHORT ‘OUT’ FEATURG ANIMATN STUD’S FIRST GAY LEAD

The existence of “Out, ” an animated short film on Disney+ about a gay man’s g-out story, might e as a shock given recent barbs thrown at the stud. But “Out” illtrat that Disney+ ntent n be both fay-iendly and al wh ser issu, and ’s a historic moment also bee giv animatn stud Pixar s first-ever gay lead. Packaged as part of Pixar’s SparkShorts program signed to lift emergg voic, “Out” is a ne-mute step toward normalizg gay characters animated films for youngsters, and quietly revolutnary s own way.

” Hunter was raised a small town Canada where, he said, “there was nothg that told me beg gay was okay. The ma character “Out” is Greg, a young gay guy who’s not out to his parents and is about to move to the big cy to live wh his boyiend, Manuel. It’s hardly guy-on-guy sex, sure, but given the lack of gay reprentatn on screens ’s still shockg.

DISNEY+ RELEAS 'OUT,' FEATURG PIXAR'S FIRST GAY LEAD CHARACTER

“Out” was also signed to flip the script on the often fatalistic portrayals of gay, nfed, or closeted people g to terms wh their sexualy movi and TV. Penis breath equals gay equals bad.

That outle holds an obv potential for queer allegory, and ed many Pixar fans trackg the film’s velopment quickly labeled Lu as the stud’s “gay movie”—a g-out story to be placed on Pixar’s mantle alongsi s medatns on grief, artistic exprsn, lonels, Ayn Rand-ian objectivism, and parentg.

PIXAR SHORT ‘OUT’ PROV GAY STORI CAN LIVE ON FAY-FRIENDLY DISNEY+

” That suggts a limed unrstandg of gay growg up, particularly of when our feelgs of affectn and special closens and difference n first velop.

That character, played tartly but briefly by John McCrea, is slightly ls of a scrap than the embarrassgly ballyhooed “exclively gay moment” 2017’s Bety and the Beast—but Artie still barely registered amid Cella’s cynil clamor.

Last year, Disney punted Love, Victor—a seri spoff of the feature film Love, Simon, the first stud film about a gay kid g out—om Disney+ to Hulu, clarg the young adult show a better f for that more grownup streamg service. Greg Gayne/HuluThe first season of Love, Victor very much felt like a show tend for Disney+ that somehow wound up alongsi Handmaid’s Tale. Love, Victor season two admirably exam life post-g out, as Victor (Michael Cimo) navigat his nascent relatnship wh barista Benji (Gee Sear) and tri to get his mother, Isabel (Ana Ortiz, queen of playg TV moms of gay kids), to fully accept his inty.

IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE? MAYBE

Victor and Benji grapple wh tra-gay nflicts jt as much as they do wh the wary nsiratns of the straight world.

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

While TV shows have featured more and more diverse characters recent years, remas particularly difficult to fd fay-iendly LGBTQ+ movi, often bee the stori (problematilly) often foc on the paful, vlent, R-rated stggl of gay and lbian folks. LGBTQ+ them are not central to the plot of this 2022 Disney feature but the character Ethan is gay and openly smten wh his iend Strange World, rated PG, on Disney+.

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

Inially shocked, Daniel asks how long he’s known he’s gay to which Tyler asks “How long have you known you’re straight? The only plitn is that he hasn’t e out to him as gay. Everybody’s Talkg About JamieMax Harwood as VioBased on a te story, Everybody’s Talkg About Jamie is a mil that follows Jamie, a gay boy livg northern England who dreams of beg a drag queen.

Sudnly Billy fds himself a much more “tradnal” high school, plete wh homophobic bulli. A gay ma character has fally appeared a Pixar film.

PIXAR FEATUR FIRST GAY LEAD NEW ANIMATED SHORT ‘OUT’

Tsa Thompson’s character Valkyrie was nfirmed to be the first LGBT superhero the Marvel Cematic Universe, and “The Eternals” is set to feature the first openly gay hero. Out, a short film om Pixar Animatn Studs streamg on Disney+, featur Pixar’s first gay ma character. Greg is gripped by the difficulty of g out as gay to his parents, who have paid a surprise vis to help him pack for his move.

Pixar films, cludg the Toy Story anchise and this year’s Onward, have featured mor gay characters, but this is the first time a same-sex uple has been at the center of the story.

Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker also clud a fleetg same-sex kiss, and on the TV si, Disney Channel seri Andi Mack 2017 aired an episo centerg on a character g out as gay. ” Released May 22 on Disney+, “Out” featur the Emeryville-based animatn pany’s first openly gay protagonist, which follows the hoof-steps of a lbian centr p “Onward. “When I was a young gay kid growg up Southwtern Ontar, Canada, there was nothg my hometown that told me that beg gay was a thg you uld do, ” says Hunter.

PIXAR’S SHORT FILM OUT DEBUTS FIRST GAY LEAD

From there, the short follows Greg, a gay man who is movg om an unspecified small town to an unspecified big cy. Hilary ensu as Greg his dog’s body tri to prevent his parents om fdg out he’s gay. While Pixar has had some one-note queer characters (a blk-and-you’ll-miss uple Fdg Dory and a p wh one throwaway le Onward), Out featur the stud’s first leadg gay character and foc entirely on his experience, which is apparently based on a te story (though probably whout the dog-and-human body swappg).

A new animated short lled “Out” is the first film by the stud to feature an openly gay protagonist. “Out” is the first film the stud’s 25 years to feature a gay man as the protagonist, a landmark moment for Pixar and for Hunter, who says he didn’t e out until he was his late 20s. One small step for Pixar, one giant leap away om “exclively gay moments.

” The animatn tan’s newt short film, Out, featur the first gay ma character the stud’s three- history. However, Greg is a closeted gay man om his parents, and has to al wh the surprise of his mother and father showg up to help him pack.

SAME-SEX KISS ‘LIGHTYEAR’ RTORED TO PIXAR FILM’S FAL CUT AFTER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ OUTRAGE

Pixar’s Short Film Out Debuts Stud’s First Gay Lead. Disney and Pixar’s “Lightyear, ” out this June, has rtored to the film what would be the animatn stud’s first same-sex kiss a feature film, between a character lled Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba) and her dividual wh knowledge of the film’s productn said that the same-sex relatnship was always a part of the movie and never up for bate, but the kiss self was ultimately removed as part of the creative procs terms of nversatns about the dividual says light of the current environment across Disney, a cisn was ma last week to rtore the kiss to the fished news after a letter released by Pixar employe the wake of Disney’s rponse to the “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn acced the stud of barrg them om creatg or showg displays of LGBTQ+ timacy and ntent their stori. “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.

PIXAR'S SHORT FILM 'OUT' FEATUR STUD'S FIRST GAY LEAD CHARACTER

There is a gay character 2020’s “Onward” who discs her girliend, but the character only mentns her partner; you never see them together or any kd of romantic settg. ) that walks by the background of “Fdg Dory;” and there is a clearly gay-d character their most recent release, “Turng Red” (now on Disney+). ”Of urse, speculatn immediately turned to last year’s “Lu, ” which is maybe the most explicly gay Pixar movie, both terms of the bond formed by two young sea monsters on a sun-drenched Italian island, post-World War II, but also the thematic unrpngs of havg to hi your te self to be able to f , the jealoy that forms between the two characters, and the overall vibe of the relatnship, which many likened to the Pixar versn of “Call Me By Your Name.

A SparkShort film that recently buted on Disney+, Out is about a gay man named Greg who ntemplat g out to his fay when they drop by for a surprise vis. However, the gay character Greg is Hunter’s first LGBTQ character– which is apt as Greg is loosely based on Hunter himself.

To animate the first gay kiss for a Disney film, Hunter worked wh Wenll Lee, the only other gay animator still at Pixar when Hunter had earlier worked wh them.