Lu on Disney+: Is Pixar’s new movie a gay allegory?

Contents:

• ¿TIENE 'LU' EL PRIMER PROTAGONISTA GAY PIXAR?
• ¿LU GAY O NO?: DIRECTOR LA PELI DISNEY RPONDIó
• HOW GAY IS PIXAR’S LU?
• IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE? MAYBE
• 'LU' DIRECTOR ADMS THEY 'TALKED ABOUT' MAKG THE LEADS GAY BUT CID TO FOC ON A 'PRE-ROMANCE' IENDSHIP
• LU PIXAR: ¿LU GAY? ¡EXPLICIóN ALBERTO & LUS!
• ‘LU’ Y LA POLéMI S MENSAJ: ¿ES UNA PELíCULA GAY O UNA FáBULA SOBRE LA MIGRACIóN?
• EL DIRECTOR LU FALMENTE ACLARA SI LA PELíCULA DISNEY SOBRE UN ROMANCE GAY

¿TIENE 'LU' EL PRIMER PROTAGONISTA GAY PIXAR?

El primer tráiler se ha hecho públi ta semana¿Ha querido ntar un g-of-age gay? El hecho que 'Lu' una historia cuyo protagonista homosexual.

¿LU GAY O NO?: DIRECTOR LA PELI DISNEY RPONDIó

El mensaje pue parecer peranzador a la hora que por f Pixar ponga a un protagonista homosexual en una s historias. Hasta ahora, se ha visto un secundar LGTBIQ en 'Onward', y ya ntó n un protagonista gay en el rto 'Salir' ('Out') ntro l programa Sparkshorts. ¿Podría el tud animación dar el salto y oecer un personaje homosexual en un largometraje?

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.

HOW GAY IS PIXAR’S LU?

This elis the fact that beg gay, queer, or LGBTQ+ is not simply a matter of partners or relatnships or sex. 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.

IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE? MAYBE

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. Muchos pectador han peculado n la ia un romance gay entre los dos chis que protagonizan la historia. Esa amistad crece a lo largo la película que tá disponible en Disney Pl, n cenas celos cluidas, lo que ha llevado a muchos a terpretar una implíca relación gay entre los protagonistas.

"En mi primera imagen me di cuenta que no habíamos hecho que los niños fueran niños", claró Casarosa, quien aclaró que solo quiso relatar una etapa en la vida los niños, por lo que jamás quiso relatar un romance gay. When director Enri Casarosa says he didn’t tend to make Lu a gay romance, I believe him.

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

OK, but isn’t still a ltle b gay? 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.

LU PIXAR: ¿LU GAY? ¡EXPLICIóN ALBERTO & LUS!

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.

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.

‘LU’ Y LA POLéMI S MENSAJ: ¿ES UNA PELíCULA GAY O UNA FáBULA SOBRE LA MIGRACIóN?

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.

EL DIRECTOR LU FALMENTE ACLARA SI LA PELíCULA DISNEY SOBRE UN ROMANCE GAY

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