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- DISNEY’S BUZZ LIGHTYEAR MOVIE BANNED IN 14 COUNTRI OVER GAY KISS
- SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
DISNEY’S BUZZ LIGHTYEAR MOVIE BANNED IN 14 COUNTRI OVER GAY KISS
Lightyear, the latt film om Disney Pixar, has apparently been banned 14 untri over a gay kiss featured the film. * buzz lightyear banned gay kiss *
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. 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. Beyond qutng s public stance, fans and employe also cricized Disney for donatg to Florida policians who supported the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Plan to-renews until ncelledTry for eeThe Inpennt has reached out to reprentativ of Disney for had earlier rtored the same-sex kiss Lightyear March after staff released an open letter cricisg Disney’s rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
Homosexualy is nsired crimal many Middle Eastern untri. But she said filmmakers would not make chang to the has rejected other on-screen pictns of homosexualy the past.
SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
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: 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. ': 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.
(Disney/Pixar)There's lots of buzz over a particular scene Lightyear, and now the filmmakers and star are ready to addrs the Variety reported March, a same-sex kiss om Pixar’s upg Toy Story spoff was ially cut om the animated feature, only to be rtored after LGBTQ employe and alli at the Disney-owned pany sent a jot statement to stud executiv prottg the censorship of “overtly gay affectn. ”The stud’s about-face me as Disney was unr creased scty om s workforce over the rporatn’s perceived lax rponse to Florida’s ntroversial so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Related vio: Pixar restat 'Lightyear' same-sex kiss after backlash over Disney's rponse to Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' bill “We always tend for that relatnship to be there, ” Lightyear director Ang MacLane (Fdg Dory) tells Yahoo Entertament regards to the marriage between Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) — bt iend and fellow Space Ranger to Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans) — and the wife she grows old wh.
There’s also a robot t wh a funny accent, to balance out the needlsly meta Giv ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill the Fger, Rtor Same-Sex Kiss ‘Lightyear’Dpe all that sills, the UAE’s Media Regulatory Office announced that will not screen the film the untry. Doctor Strange troduc gay teen Ameri Chavez, played by Xochl Gomez, and Eternals featur a queer uple as well as the anchise’s first openly gay superhero, year’s Wt Si Story remake, also om Disney, was barred om release untri such as Sdi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwa due to the addn of a transgenr character, Anybodys, played by nonbary actor Iris Menas. Wh homosexualy illegal across the Middle East, basilly any films featurg overt LGBTQ+ ntent are at risk of censorship.