Pixar’s animated film Lu may not be a gay narrative, but ’s a queer one - Polygon

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Pixar director Enri Casarosa drew heavily om faiar g-out stori and other "gay narrative" trop for his animated movie Lu. (It’s all there, om nversn therapy to passg privilege.) But he’s still nyg any gay ntent, shuttg down queer viewers who see themselv the film. The bate mirrors other s, om Star Wars’ Le Skywalker to Anthony Mackie’s ments on The Faln and the Wter Soldier, where LBGTQ+ viewers terpret stori through their own lens, and the creators try to ny them. Here’s why eedom of terpretatn matters.

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POVIA, ‘LU ERA GAY’ E LE POLEMICHE PER L’OMOFOBIA

* luca era gay critiche *

La sua rriera è stellata di ternazni ntroverse sul tema ll’omossualà, culmate n il ntenuto lla nzone “Lu era gay” n cui si classificò sendo a Sanremo 2009. Il nttore avrà e "avversaria" difa lla squadra "Gay Pri" Vladimir Luxuria, di cui parlò un'tervista l 2014.

HOW GAY IS PIXAR’S LU?

Lu is marketed as a "metaphor for anythg" but the sea monster setup is a perfect allegory for a gay story, and LGBTQ viewers n read that way. * luca era gay critiche *

Il Sanremo lle polemiche n Lu era Gay La polemi vera sppiò due anni più tardi, ocsne lla partecipazne di Povia al Ftival di Sanremo n "Lu era gay". Quta ti era stata già prsa scherzosamente dall'artista nel 2005, nel rso di un'tervista a Panorama, prima di sere rettifita dallo stso Povia un'ulterre tervista rilasciata a GayTv.

When director Enri Casarosa says he didn’t tend to make Lu a gay romance, I believe him.

OK, but isn’t still a ltle b gay?

DO DISNEY’S ‘LU’ HAVE A GAY CHARACTER?

Si è parlato molto lla nzone Lu era Gay di Gieppe Povia. Una nzone che ha fatto plore una polemi lunga almeno per un cenn. * luca era gay critiche *

Still, there have been so many siar discsns about queer inty Disney movi that you n almost predict the disurse ahead of time: “They’re gay!

” “But why do they have to be gay? ” “But why n’t they be gay?

For both live-actn and animated movi, the stud has overhyped what have bee known as “exclively gay moments, ” ty morsels of reprentatn that are eher so subtle you hardly notice them (a kiss between two women the background of a Star Wars movie) or so plot-irrelevant that they n be easily chopped or overlooked by ternatnal censors (here’s lookg at you, Endgame’s unnamed Grievg Man). Meanwhile, while Disney has ngratulated self and claimed to blaze new trails, plenty of other animatn studs have been ahead of them: Laika’s ParaNorman, for example, featured an openly gay character way back 2012. Ironilly, the Disney movie that gave the term “exclively gay moment” the first place took a different tack: The live-actn Bety and the Beast’s LeFou is more the spir of the stud’s long-standg tradn of strongly queer-d, if not explicly gay, villas.

IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE? MAYBE

Fans have sce picked up on homoerotic unrton Raya and the Last Dragon and the live-actn Mulan, but the movi rema rabow Rorschach tts, wh dienc havg to read between the l or project their own meangs to fd queer reprentatn.

How gay is ? Whatever the director’s stated tent, the answer seems to be: as gay as you want to be. Jt a ltle over halfway through Pri Month, we are seeg people flock to Twter to prent their theori on why and how the lead duo Disney and Pixar’s latt g-of-age animated feature film, Lu, is, fact, gay.

So do Lu have a gay character after all, or is this jt a se of fans creatg a headnon that’s gag tractn and onle clout?

POVIA NTRO IL DDL ZAN: “CON QUTA LEGGE LU ERA GAY SAREBBE CENSURATA. STO SCRIVENDO ‘OMOFOBIA NON ISTE’: SE PASSA LA LEGGE POTRò NTARLA?”

Do Lu have a gay character? While Disney has not e on the rerd sayg that Lu and Alberto are gay, we (and many a Twter er! ) believe that the great mds at Pixar may have meant for the movie’s plot to be an overall metaphor for gayns and acceptance.

LU MAY NOT BE A GAY NARRATIVE, BUT ’S ABSOLUTELY A QUEER ONE

I KNOW #Lu isn’t an explicly gay movie.

So while no character Lu has been intified by Disney outright as gay, we n very well read the subtext, metaphors, and straight-up visual evince (all of those nocent touch! 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.

” 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.

“LU ERA GAY” DI POVIA ERA DAVVERO OFFENSIVA? | LA VERà

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.

Victor and Benji grapple wh tra-gay nflicts jt as much as they do wh the wary nsiratns of the straight world. Il nttore, quello di “Lu era gay”, ha sento il dovere di dire la sua n un post pubblito sui social. Lu era gay, 2º posto a Sanremo, prem Stampa/RadTv, Prem Mogol, dis d’oro e plato.

Se passa la legge i gay entrano nell’artilo 604Bis e diventano a tutti gli effetti una ‘razza’ fossi gay? In rponse to viewers who reacted to trailers by hopg the film might be a childhood gay romance, Lu director Enri Casarosa rapidly shut the notn down, sayg “I was really keen to talk about a iendship before girliends and boyiends e to plite thgs.

'LU' DIRECTOR ADMS THEY 'TALKED ABOUT' MAKG THE LEADS GAY BUT CID TO FOC ON A 'PRE-ROMANCE' IENDSHIP

The Deep is portrayed as horrible place of self-nial, but they’re willg to make him suffer to keep him away om what they see as immoral, a clear parallel to the nversn therapy or wilrns therapy that so many young LGBTQ+ people are subjected to by homophobic muni. His rponse was simple: “I’d say is meant to be terpreted by the viewer […] If you thk Le is gay, of urse he is.

” Hal regnized that some people benefted om readg the character as gay, and acknowledged that there isn’t a sgle rrect terpretatn of Le. Lu is marketed as a "metaphor for anythg" but the sea monster setup is a perfect allegory for a gay story, and LGBTQ viewers n read that way.

Lu has arrived on Disney+ and, spe what Pixar says, the movie prents a strong allegory for growg up gay and fdg a nnectn wh other LGBTQ people. This elis the fact that beg gay, queer, or LGBTQ+ is not simply a matter of partners or relatnships or sex.

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Young gay people often feel very different om others before such feelgs velop, which n occur squarely the age bracket the story plac Lu and Alberto. In the ments, Casarosa is enuragg such terpretatn, meang that, if you see there, Lu is a gay story, Pixar's first feature film wh LGBTQ+ leads. The parallels of the boys secretly beg sea monsters and gay and LGBTQ+ people beg forced to hi their inti cuts closer than other mory groups, ratnalizg a queer readg of the movie.

So while Pixar ni Lu is a gay story due to s settg and the age of s characters, viewers should read the LGBTQ+ narrative for what is. Si è parlato molto lla nzone Lu era Gay di Gieppe Povia.

LU FANS ARE NVCED 'S A GAY LOVE STORY AND THE MEM ARE INIC

Una nzone che ha fatto plore una polemi lunga almeno per un ntante I bambi fanno Oh si prenta al Ftival di Sanremo 2009, n una vtoria alle spalle grazie a Vorrei avere il bec, n Lu era Gay.

Lu era gay, Il racnto di PoviaPiù volte Gieppe Povia a onte di Lu era gay ha parlato di una “storia” e non lla necsà di ver ogni gay pronto a trasformarsi etero.

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