In Pixar’s new animated movie, Lena Wahe plays Officer Spector, the first openly gay character the stud’s movi. Disney’s history of LGBTQ reprentatn is spotty, and the pany needs to do more.
Contents:
- PIXAR’S FIRST OUT GAY CHARACTER TO BE VOICED BY LENA WAHE ‘ONWARD’
- PIXAR’S ONWARD FALLY GETS THE “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” RIGHT
- ONWARD’S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER STILL LEAV DISNEY BEHD S PETORS
- ONWARD’S GAY CHARACTER PROV DISNEY’S REPRENTATN PROBLEM
- DISNEY ARE BEG LLED OUT OVER THEIR "FIRST OPENLY GAY" ANIMATED CHARACTER
PIXAR’S FIRST OUT GAY CHARACTER TO BE VOICED BY LENA WAHE ‘ONWARD’
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Meet Officer Specter, a cyclops police officer voiced by gay Emmy-wng Master of None actrs and screenwrer Lena Wahe.
And many viewers have speculated that certa characters Disney movi, such as Elsa om Frozen and Li Shang om Mulan, were secretly gay or bisexual, and such notg perceived subtext the relatnship between Gaston and Le Fou the live-actn versn of Bety and the Pratt and Tom Holland portray the ma characters Onward, teenagers Ian and Barley Lightfoot, who embark on a road trip to rurrect their ad father for 24 hours.
PIXAR’S ONWARD FALLY GETS THE “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT” RIGHT
Pixar’s g out wh s first openly gay character — a lbian police officer voiced by “Master of None” actrs-wrer Lena Wahe. In 2017, a live-actn remake of “Bety and the Beast, ” had the first openly gay character a Disney film.
ONWARD’S OPENLY GAY CHARACTER STILL LEAV DISNEY BEHD S PETORS
Her name is Officer Specter, and she’s a Cyclops p voiced by openly gay screenwrer and actrs Lena Wahe.
ONWARD’S GAY CHARACTER PROV DISNEY’S REPRENTATN PROBLEM
“We reprent a gay fay, and have a child, ” Sleiman revealed a recent terview wh the webse NewNowNext, addg that they filmed the MCU’s first same-sex kiss as well. From the “exclively gay moment” the live-actn Bety and the Beast to a kiss between two mor female characters last year’s The Rise of Skywalker, each baby step has been preced by a flotilla of verage proclaimg the advance—and each has been followed by the evable sense of nfn and betrayal when viewers see the movie and realize, That’s ?
The makers of Star Trek Beyond were eager to make sure you knew that s versn of Sulu was gay, even though they eded out the only physil sign of his affectns. (See: the gay bt iend nnumerable’90s rom-s. Or would Lawrence have been trotted out for a seri of fensive terviews explag that her character really was gay, but movi are plited and you have to serve the story—and who knows, maybe they’ll clu the leted scen.
DISNEY ARE BEG LLED OUT OVER THEIR "FIRST OPENLY GAY" ANIMATED CHARACTER
It’s important not to make too much of Onward’s exclively gay moment—or even to make too much of the movie not makg too much of . After all, children’s animated movi, pecially those om gay filmmakers—cludg ParaNorman and the How to Tra Your Dragon films—have been quietly cludg moments like this for years, whout anyone pattg themselv on the back.
Onward, Pixar’s first non-sequel movie sce 2017’s Co, notably featur the stud’s first openly gay character. This one le, livered passg wh no follow-up, marks the first verbal regnn of a character’s gay relatnship an animated Disney movie.
Elsa’s new ballad, “Show Yourself, ” sound pretty dang gay. Whether animators vertly add those gay moments, or ’s jt fans projectg, the bt-se scenar for Disney is to let LGBTQ muni celebrate potentially gay characters whout the pany havg to acknowledge their queerns.