Hawthorne Lightyear is famed for beg a gay character a Disney film, but shows like Raven's Home and movi like Eternals have featured LGBTQ+.
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- SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
- PIXAR’S LIGHTYEAR IS TRIGGERG THE LATT RIGHT-WG ANTI-LGBTQ+ PANICCONSERVATIV ARE PHG TO ERASE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE OM PUBLIC LIFE, BANNG TALK OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN SCHOOLS, TARGETG DRAG PERFORMANC, AND MORE. THE LATT TARGET: ATTACKG THE PORTRAYAL OF A LBIAN UPLE THE TOY STORY SP-OFF OUT THIS WEEK.BY CALEB ERMAJUNE 16, 2022© WALT DISNEY CO./EVERETT COLLECTN.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHE NSERVATIVE OUTRAGE MACHE HAS PICKED S NEXT TARGET AND ’S ABOUT TO H THEATERS: DISNEY-PIXAR’S LIGHTYEAR, THE TOY STORY SP-OFF MOVIE OUT FRIDAY. “DISNEY WORKS TO PH A ‘NOT-AT-ALL-SECRET GAY AGENDA’…PARENTS SHOULD KEEP THAT MD BEFORE CIDG WHETHER TO TAKE THEIR KIDS TO SEE ‘LIGHTYEAR,’” TWEETED BEN SHAPIRO, ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR RIGHT-WG PODST HOSTS. HIS POST CLUD A SCREENSHOT OM THE UPG ANIMATED MOVIE THAT FEATUR TWO LBIAN PARENTS EMBRACG EACH OTHER. “CHILDREN ARE NOT ADULTS. WHAT MAY BE APPROPRIATE FOR ADULTS IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN,” THE PODSTER NTUED. “THAT THIS MT BE SAID MONSTRAT THAT OUR SOCIETY IS A STATE OF MORAL LLAPSE.”SHAPIRO’S PORTRAYAL OF LGBTQ+ PEOPLE AND RELATNSHIPS AS HERENTLY LEWD OR PORNOGRAPHIC, AND TH, APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN, HAS BEE THE NORM AMONG MANY NSERVATIV. OVER THE PAST THREE MONTHS, THE BIGGT NAM NSERVATIVE MEDIA HAVE RURRECTED AN ALL-OUT WAR AGAST LGBTQ+ AMERINS, ATTEMPTG TO TRIGGER A MORAL PANIC THAT IS GROWG MORE EXTREME AND MORE WISPREAD WH EACH PASSG WEEK. AS STATE LEGISLATUR TEE UP HUNDREDS OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ PROPOSALS THIS YEAR, A STUDY OM THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN CLARED THAT 2022 ULD BE THE MOST ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATIVE YEAR HISTORY, PER USA TODAY. THIS MPAIGN HAS ALSO LATED NSERVATIVE MEDIA; MARCH, FAR-RIGHT PUNDS BEGAN MALIGNG TORS WHO TALK ABOUT GENR INTY OR SEXUAL ORIENTATN AS “GROOMERS” WHO SEEK TO PREY ON SCHOOLCHILDREN. THE REVIVAL OF THIS AGE-OLD SMEAR WAS ADOPTED BY SOME OF THE RIGHT’S MOST POPULAR PUNDS AND POLICIANS. BUT THE FOC OF THE ATTACKS HAS SCE SHIFTED OM SCHOOLS, EVOLVG TO MUCH BROAR ATTACKS ON LGBTQ+ PEOPLE ALL PUBLIC SPAC.IN A TOWNHALL LUMN TLED “WHEN A KISS IS NOT JT A KISS,” TALK RAD HOST LARRY O’CONNOR PHED BACK AGAST A PEREZ HILTON TWEET NOTG THAT LIGHTYEAR IS “BANNED MULTIPLE UNTRI OVER A GAY KISS. CARTOONS KISSING, Y’ALL. THAT’S SOME MMENT TO HOMOPHOBIA.”“THIS IS THE STANDARD RPONSE WHENEVER OBJECTNS ARE RAISED TO THE SLOW-MOTN GRADATN OF OUR PRCIPL AND VALU THAT WE TRY TO STILL OUR CHILDREN,” O’CONNOR WROTE. “NOW, DISNEY HAS CID TO WARP S CREDIBILY WH PARENTS EVERYWHERE BY LETTG KNOW THAT EVEN S RTOONS ARE NO LONGER EE OM NTENT THAT MIGHT BE OBJECTNABLE.” LIKEWISE, THE AMERIN CONSERVATIVE’S ROD DREHER NMNED DISNEY’S CISN TO CLU THE LIGHTYEAR SCENE, ACCG THE PANY OF APPEASG A “WOKE MOB THAT WANTS TO SEXUALIZE CHILDREN” AND TRYG TO “TURN POPULAR ART TO CULTURE-WAR PROPAGANDA.” (AT ONE POT, DISNEY HIGHER-UPS REPORTEDLY CID TO REMOVE THE SCENE WHICH THE LBIAN UPLE SHAR A KISS, BUT THEY REVERSED THAT CISN MARCH RPONSE TO EMPLOYEE PROTTS OVER ANTI-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATN BEG PASSED FLORIDA.)“IT’S GREAT THAT ’S BACK THE FILM,” ACTOR CHRIS EVANS, WHO VOIC THE CHARACTER BUZZ LIGHTYEAR, TOLD VANY FAIR AT LAST WEEK’S WORLD PREMIERE. “I THK ’S A SHAME THAT ’S SUCH A STORY. IT SHOULD BE MORE NORMALIZED, BUT I’M GLAD WE ARE MAKG THOSE STEPS.”IT’S NOT JT MOVI. IN A DIRECT REBUTTAL TO PRI MONTH CELEBRATNS TAKG PLACE ACROSS THE UNTRY, NSERVATIV HAVE ALSO NOUNCED LGBTQ+ SPAC AS NATELY PRAVED AND UNF FOR CHILDREN. “IT’S OK TO JT SAY YOU DON’T WANT KIDS TO GO TO DRAG SHOWS BEE YOU DON’T WANT THEM TO SEE MEN DRSED UP LIKE WOMEN,” WROTE NSERVATIVE MENTATOR ALLIE BETH STUCKEY A TWEET, ADDG THAT “MEN PRETENDG TO BE WOMEN SHOULD [NOT] BE CELEBRATED, PECIALLY BY CHILDREN.” EVEN REPRENTATIVE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE JUMPED ON THE WAR AGAST DRAG SAYG SHE WAS GOG TO PROPOSE A BILL MAKG ILLEGAL FOR CHILDREN TO BE EXPOSED TO DRAG PERFORMANC.“RANDOM DRAG QUEENS PUBLIC SPAC POSE EXACTLY 0 THREAT TO CHILDREN,” NATALIE WYNN, A POPULAR TRANS YOUTUBER, REMARKED ON THIS NTROVERSY A TWEET. “THE PEOPLE DON’T RE ABOUT PROTECTG CHILDREN, THEY RE ABOUT PROTECTG ‘CHILDHOOD NOCENCE’—IGNORANCE ROMANTICIZED; A BULLSH FANTASY MA UP BY ADULTS, REFLECTG EVERY ADULT PREJUDICE.”WYNN’S MENT UGHT NSERVATIVE PODSTER MATT WALSH’S ATTENTN, WHO RPONSE TO WYNN WROTE, “THE PEOPLE ARE MONSTERS” WHO “ACTIVELY WANT TO RPT YOUR CHILDREN.” WALSH, WHO APPARENTLY BEGAN UTILIZG THE “GROOMER” SMEAR AND PHG FOR LAWS TO BAN DRAG QUEEN STORYTELLG HOURS NEARLY A YEAR BEFORE SOME OF HIS PEERS JOED HIM, WENT ON TO WRE, “THIS IS WHY WE MT OPPOSE THEM WH EVERY FIBER OF OUR BEG, NO MATTER WHAT.” (MIGHT BE WORTH NOTG THAT WALSH, A CATHOLIC, HAS SHOWN FAR LS NCERN AND IRE TOWARD THE LARGT GROOMG SNDAL MORN HISTORY. “THE PEDOPHILE SNDAL THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS NOT A PEDOPHILE SNDAL. THE VAST MAJORY OF VICTIMS ARE POST-PUBCENT TEENS AND YOUNG MEN,” HE WROTE 2018. “THE REAL PROBLEM THE CHURCH THAT EVERYONE SE AND FEW WILL SAY OUT LOUD: GAY PRITS.”)MOST POPULARBARACK OBAMA IS ALSO SRED SHLS THAT DONALD TMP COULD W ANOTHER TERM: REPORTBY BS LEVLIZZO’S DETHRONG HAS BEEN SWIFTBY KENZIE BRYANTEVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT ARIANA GRAN AND HER NEW BOYIEND, SPONGEBOB (ETHAN SLATER)BY KENZIE BRYANTTHIS MPAIGN TO SEEMGLY OSTRACIZE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE OM SOCIETY ISN’T JT PLAYG OUT BETWEEN NSERVATIVE PUNDS; THERE’S A GROWG LEGAL PH TO DIFY BANS AGAST TALKG ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY CLASSROOMS, LIMG TRANS KIDS’ ABILI TO PARTICIPATE SPORTS, AND RECEIVE APPROPRIATE GENR-AFFIRMG HEALTH RE. DEMOCRATS HAVE TAKEN NOTICE TOO; ON WEDNDAY PRINT JOE BIN SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORR TO EXPAND ROURC TO LGBTQ+ AMERINS, OM HOG IATIV, TO HEALTH RE, AS WELL AS RCG THE EXPOSURE OF MORS TO NVERSN THERAPY.IN A STATEMENT TO VANY FAIR, AM PALEY, THE CEO OF THE TREVOR PROJECT, A LGBTQ+ YOUTH ADVOCY ANIZATN, WARNED THAT THE ANTI-TRANS NARRATIV BEG PROPAGATED BY NSERVATIV ULD HAVE DIRE NSEQUENC. “THE RURGENCE OF REGRSIVE ANTI-LGBTQ ATTACKS THAT SEEK TO SMEAR ADULTS—CLUDG PARENTS, TEACHERS, UNSELORS, AND DOCTORS—WHO AFFIRM AND SUPPORT LGBTQ YOUTH IS CREDIBLY DANGERO,” SAID PALEY, “AND DIVERTS ATTENTN AWAY OM THE CRIL WORK BEG DONE TO PREVENT AND ADDRS ACTUAL CHILD ABE AND SEXUAL ASSLT PERPETRATED AGAST LGBTQ YOUTH.”SOME LGBTQ+ AMERINS HAVE ALREADY EXPERIENCED NEW THREATS SET OFF BY THE RIGHT'S LATT MORAL CSA. AT AN IDAHO PRI EVENT SATURDAY, 31 MEMBERS OF PATRT FRONT, A WHE NATNALIST GROUP, WERE ARRTED FOR NSPIRACY TO RT AFTER THEY TRAVELED TO THE EVENT ARMED WH SHIELDS, METAL POL, AND AT LEAST ONE SMOKE GRENA. THAT SAME DAY, A GROUP OF PROUD BOYS STORMED A CALIFORNIA LIBRARY’S DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR AND BEGAN HURLG ANTI-TRANS AND ANTIGAY SLURS AT ATTEN. SIARLY, A BAND OF REPORTED “CHRISTIAN FASCISTS” HARASSED AND THREATENED PATRONS OF DRAG QUEEN BNCH DALLAS LAST WEEK. DURG THE CINT, THE GROUP BEGAN DIRECTG “GROOMER” CHANTS AT THE EVENT’S PARTICIPANTS AND GUTS.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)CALEB ERMA
- OKLAHOMA MOVIE THEATER POSTS 'WARNG' SIGN ABOUT 'LIGHTYEAR' GAY KISS, LOL CALLS THE MOVE 'BIGOTED'
- REPORT: DISNEY TO INCLU GAY RELATNSHIP IN LIGHTYEAR MOVIE
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
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Me unr fire for s ial silence regardg a Florida bill rtrictg classroom discsn of sexual orientatn and genr inty — dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” by crics. Durg the tumult, Pixar employe lled out Disney executiv for cuttg “nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn” om the animatn stud’s films. 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.
PIXAR’S LIGHTYEAR IS TRIGGERG THE LATT RIGHT-WG ANTI-LGBTQ+ PANICCONSERVATIV ARE PHG TO ERASE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE OM PUBLIC LIFE, BANNG TALK OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN SCHOOLS, TARGETG DRAG PERFORMANC, AND MORE. THE LATT TARGET: ATTACKG THE PORTRAYAL OF A LBIAN UPLE THE TOY STORY SP-OFF OUT THIS WEEK.BY CALEB ERMAJUNE 16, 2022© WALT DISNEY CO./EVERETT COLLECTN.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHE NSERVATIVE OUTRAGE MACHE HAS PICKED S NEXT TARGET AND ’S ABOUT TO H THEATERS: DISNEY-PIXAR’S LIGHTYEAR, THE TOY STORY SP-OFF MOVIE OUT FRIDAY. “DISNEY WORKS TO PH A ‘NOT-AT-ALL-SECRET GAY AGENDA’…PARENTS SHOULD KEEP THAT MD BEFORE CIDG WHETHER TO TAKE THEIR KIDS TO SEE ‘LIGHTYEAR,’” TWEETED BEN SHAPIRO, ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR RIGHT-WG PODST HOSTS. HIS POST CLUD A SCREENSHOT OM THE UPG ANIMATED MOVIE THAT FEATUR TWO LBIAN PARENTS EMBRACG EACH OTHER. “CHILDREN ARE NOT ADULTS. WHAT MAY BE APPROPRIATE FOR ADULTS IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN,” THE PODSTER NTUED. “THAT THIS MT BE SAID MONSTRAT THAT OUR SOCIETY IS A STATE OF MORAL LLAPSE.”SHAPIRO’S PORTRAYAL OF LGBTQ+ PEOPLE AND RELATNSHIPS AS HERENTLY LEWD OR PORNOGRAPHIC, AND TH, APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN, HAS BEE THE NORM AMONG MANY NSERVATIV. OVER THE PAST THREE MONTHS, THE BIGGT NAM NSERVATIVE MEDIA HAVE RURRECTED AN ALL-OUT WAR AGAST LGBTQ+ AMERINS, ATTEMPTG TO TRIGGER A MORAL PANIC THAT IS GROWG MORE EXTREME AND MORE WISPREAD WH EACH PASSG WEEK. AS STATE LEGISLATUR TEE UP HUNDREDS OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ PROPOSALS THIS YEAR, A STUDY OM THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN CLARED THAT 2022 ULD BE THE MOST ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATIVE YEAR HISTORY, PER USA TODAY. THIS MPAIGN HAS ALSO LATED NSERVATIVE MEDIA; MARCH, FAR-RIGHT PUNDS BEGAN MALIGNG TORS WHO TALK ABOUT GENR INTY OR SEXUAL ORIENTATN AS “GROOMERS” WHO SEEK TO PREY ON SCHOOLCHILDREN. THE REVIVAL OF THIS AGE-OLD SMEAR WAS ADOPTED BY SOME OF THE RIGHT’S MOST POPULAR PUNDS AND POLICIANS. BUT THE FOC OF THE ATTACKS HAS SCE SHIFTED OM SCHOOLS, EVOLVG TO MUCH BROAR ATTACKS ON LGBTQ+ PEOPLE ALL PUBLIC SPAC.IN A TOWNHALL LUMN TLED “WHEN A KISS IS NOT JT A KISS,” TALK RAD HOST LARRY O’CONNOR PHED BACK AGAST A PEREZ HILTON TWEET NOTG THAT LIGHTYEAR IS “BANNED MULTIPLE UNTRI OVER A GAY KISS. CARTOONS KISSING, Y’ALL. THAT’S SOME MMENT TO HOMOPHOBIA.”“THIS IS THE STANDARD RPONSE WHENEVER OBJECTNS ARE RAISED TO THE SLOW-MOTN GRADATN OF OUR PRCIPL AND VALU THAT WE TRY TO STILL OUR CHILDREN,” O’CONNOR WROTE. “NOW, DISNEY HAS CID TO WARP S CREDIBILY WH PARENTS EVERYWHERE BY LETTG KNOW THAT EVEN S RTOONS ARE NO LONGER EE OM NTENT THAT MIGHT BE OBJECTNABLE.” LIKEWISE, THE AMERIN CONSERVATIVE’S ROD DREHER NMNED DISNEY’S CISN TO CLU THE LIGHTYEAR SCENE, ACCG THE PANY OF APPEASG A “WOKE MOB THAT WANTS TO SEXUALIZE CHILDREN” AND TRYG TO “TURN POPULAR ART TO CULTURE-WAR PROPAGANDA.” (AT ONE POT, DISNEY HIGHER-UPS REPORTEDLY CID TO REMOVE THE SCENE WHICH THE LBIAN UPLE SHAR A KISS, BUT THEY REVERSED THAT CISN MARCH RPONSE TO EMPLOYEE PROTTS OVER ANTI-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATN BEG PASSED FLORIDA.)“IT’S GREAT THAT ’S BACK THE FILM,” ACTOR CHRIS EVANS, WHO VOIC THE CHARACTER BUZZ LIGHTYEAR, TOLD VANY FAIR AT LAST WEEK’S WORLD PREMIERE. “I THK ’S A SHAME THAT ’S SUCH A STORY. IT SHOULD BE MORE NORMALIZED, BUT I’M GLAD WE ARE MAKG THOSE STEPS.”IT’S NOT JT MOVI. IN A DIRECT REBUTTAL TO PRI MONTH CELEBRATNS TAKG PLACE ACROSS THE UNTRY, NSERVATIV HAVE ALSO NOUNCED LGBTQ+ SPAC AS NATELY PRAVED AND UNF FOR CHILDREN. “IT’S OK TO JT SAY YOU DON’T WANT KIDS TO GO TO DRAG SHOWS BEE YOU DON’T WANT THEM TO SEE MEN DRSED UP LIKE WOMEN,” WROTE NSERVATIVE MENTATOR ALLIE BETH STUCKEY A TWEET, ADDG THAT “MEN PRETENDG TO BE WOMEN SHOULD [NOT] BE CELEBRATED, PECIALLY BY CHILDREN.” EVEN REPRENTATIVE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE JUMPED ON THE WAR AGAST DRAG SAYG SHE WAS GOG TO PROPOSE A BILL MAKG ILLEGAL FOR CHILDREN TO BE EXPOSED TO DRAG PERFORMANC.“RANDOM DRAG QUEENS PUBLIC SPAC POSE EXACTLY 0 THREAT TO CHILDREN,” NATALIE WYNN, A POPULAR TRANS YOUTUBER, REMARKED ON THIS NTROVERSY A TWEET. “THE PEOPLE DON’T RE ABOUT PROTECTG CHILDREN, THEY RE ABOUT PROTECTG ‘CHILDHOOD NOCENCE’—IGNORANCE ROMANTICIZED; A BULLSH FANTASY MA UP BY ADULTS, REFLECTG EVERY ADULT PREJUDICE.”WYNN’S MENT UGHT NSERVATIVE PODSTER MATT WALSH’S ATTENTN, WHO RPONSE TO WYNN WROTE, “THE PEOPLE ARE MONSTERS” WHO “ACTIVELY WANT TO RPT YOUR CHILDREN.” WALSH, WHO APPARENTLY BEGAN UTILIZG THE “GROOMER” SMEAR AND PHG FOR LAWS TO BAN DRAG QUEEN STORYTELLG HOURS NEARLY A YEAR BEFORE SOME OF HIS PEERS JOED HIM, WENT ON TO WRE, “THIS IS WHY WE MT OPPOSE THEM WH EVERY FIBER OF OUR BEG, NO MATTER WHAT.” (MIGHT BE WORTH NOTG THAT WALSH, A CATHOLIC, HAS SHOWN FAR LS NCERN AND IRE TOWARD THE LARGT GROOMG SNDAL MORN HISTORY. “THE PEDOPHILE SNDAL THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS NOT A PEDOPHILE SNDAL. THE VAST MAJORY OF VICTIMS ARE POST-PUBCENT TEENS AND YOUNG MEN,” HE WROTE 2018. “THE REAL PROBLEM THE CHURCH THAT EVERYONE SE AND FEW WILL SAY OUT LOUD: GAY PRITS.”)MOST POPULARBARACK OBAMA IS ALSO SRED SHLS THAT DONALD TMP COULD W ANOTHER TERM: REPORTBY BS LEVLIZZO’S DETHRONG HAS BEEN SWIFTBY KENZIE BRYANTEVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT ARIANA GRAN AND HER NEW BOYIEND, SPONGEBOB (ETHAN SLATER)BY KENZIE BRYANTTHIS MPAIGN TO SEEMGLY OSTRACIZE LGBTQ+ PEOPLE OM SOCIETY ISN’T JT PLAYG OUT BETWEEN NSERVATIVE PUNDS; THERE’S A GROWG LEGAL PH TO DIFY BANS AGAST TALKG ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY CLASSROOMS, LIMG TRANS KIDS’ ABILI TO PARTICIPATE SPORTS, AND RECEIVE APPROPRIATE GENR-AFFIRMG HEALTH RE. DEMOCRATS HAVE TAKEN NOTICE TOO; ON WEDNDAY PRINT JOE BIN SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORR TO EXPAND ROURC TO LGBTQ+ AMERINS, OM HOG IATIV, TO HEALTH RE, AS WELL AS RCG THE EXPOSURE OF MORS TO NVERSN THERAPY.IN A STATEMENT TO VANY FAIR, AM PALEY, THE CEO OF THE TREVOR PROJECT, A LGBTQ+ YOUTH ADVOCY ANIZATN, WARNED THAT THE ANTI-TRANS NARRATIV BEG PROPAGATED BY NSERVATIV ULD HAVE DIRE NSEQUENC. “THE RURGENCE OF REGRSIVE ANTI-LGBTQ ATTACKS THAT SEEK TO SMEAR ADULTS—CLUDG PARENTS, TEACHERS, UNSELORS, AND DOCTORS—WHO AFFIRM AND SUPPORT LGBTQ YOUTH IS CREDIBLY DANGERO,” SAID PALEY, “AND DIVERTS ATTENTN AWAY OM THE CRIL WORK BEG DONE TO PREVENT AND ADDRS ACTUAL CHILD ABE AND SEXUAL ASSLT PERPETRATED AGAST LGBTQ YOUTH.”SOME LGBTQ+ AMERINS HAVE ALREADY EXPERIENCED NEW THREATS SET OFF BY THE RIGHT'S LATT MORAL CSA. AT AN IDAHO PRI EVENT SATURDAY, 31 MEMBERS OF PATRT FRONT, A WHE NATNALIST GROUP, WERE ARRTED FOR NSPIRACY TO RT AFTER THEY TRAVELED TO THE EVENT ARMED WH SHIELDS, METAL POL, AND AT LEAST ONE SMOKE GRENA. THAT SAME DAY, A GROUP OF PROUD BOYS STORMED A CALIFORNIA LIBRARY’S DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR AND BEGAN HURLG ANTI-TRANS AND ANTIGAY SLURS AT ATTEN. SIARLY, A BAND OF REPORTED “CHRISTIAN FASCISTS” HARASSED AND THREATENED PATRONS OF DRAG QUEEN BNCH DALLAS LAST WEEK. DURG THE CINT, THE GROUP BEGAN DIRECTG “GROOMER” CHANTS AT THE EVENT’S PARTICIPANTS AND GUTS.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)CALEB ERMA
* how much gay is in lightyear *
“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.
: 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.
OKLAHOMA MOVIE THEATER POSTS 'WARNG' SIGN ABOUT 'LIGHTYEAR' GAY KISS, LOL CALLS THE MOVE 'BIGOTED'
A new report claims that The Walt Disney Company and Pixar will clu a gay relatnship their upg Lightyear film. * how much gay is in lightyear *
': Chris Evans on 'Lightyear, ' playg bad guys and beg 'a romantic person'In March, the kiss was rtored after Pixar animators spoke out agast Disney an open letter obtaed by Variety, sayg executiv had mand cuts "om nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn. Playg a character like Alisha a high-profile movie the wake of “Don’t Say Gay” and other siar legislatn “means everythg, ” Aduba adds. While there have been blk-and-you’ll-miss- queer moments prev Pixar outgs — the lbian uple Fdg Dory, for example -— ’s long sce time for a proment gay character or two one of the stud’s films.
Followg a year marked by turmoil wh s LGBTQ+ fan base and employe, Disney is releasg s first-ever movie that shows a gay kiss. Lightyear is not the first Disney film to be censored other untri for s pictn of gay characters.
REPORT: DISNEY TO INCLU GAY RELATNSHIP IN LIGHTYEAR MOVIE
After ially refg to ment on Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, the pany faced a wave of cricism om employe and nsumers. “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, ” their letter read.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
Beyond qutng s public stance, fans and employe also cricized Disney for donatg to Florida policians who supported the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
If you haven’t seen the movie yet, we’ll buy you five mut and you n head to another sector of verage at the lead up to the release of the upg movie Lightyear, ntroversy surroundg Florida’s "Don’t Say Gay" spilled over to the realm of Disney. More:Disney CEO fally speaks out on 'Don't Say Gay. ' But where's the gay Disney fairy tale?
The same-sex kiss first ma headl last month, when Pixar animators spoke out agast Disney an open letter obtaed by Variety, sayg that rporate executiv had mand cuts "om nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn. But was later rtored light of Disney's "Don't Say Gay" ntroversy, when was revealed the pany had donated roughly $200, 000 to Republin policians who supported the bill, which forbids discsns of sexual orient elementary school classrooms.