How 'Strange World' troduc the first out gay teenager a Disney animated film

Contents:

• IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE? MAYBE
• HERE'S HOW 'STRANGE WORLD' TRODUC THE FIRST OUT GAY TEENAGER A DISNEY ANIMATED FILM: 'IT WAS A BETIFUL THG TO BE A PART OF'
• DISNEY RELEAS ITS GAYT KIDS’ MOVIE YET—AT THE CRAZIT TIME
• DISNEY’S ‘STRANGE WORLD’ TO FEATURE FIRST GAY TEEN ROMANCE ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
• DISNEY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ADMS TO ‘GAY AGENDA,’ ‘ADDG QUEERNS’ WHEREVER SHE COULD

IS LU PIXAR’S FIRST GAY MOVIE? MAYBE

Updated on June 7th, 2022 by Danielle Bnti: In the wake of Florida's extremely ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill and the strong cricism that me om wh The Walt Disney Company for not speakg up, seems like Disney is fally unrstandg out important LGBTQ+ reprentatn is for s fans and s st members.

While the word "gay" never is spoken  Better Nate Than Ever, the notn that Nate is gay is hted at relentlsly. Phastos is a geni and ventor turned superhero who also happens to be openly gay. Artie Cella is an openly gay character who teracts wh the ma character throughout the new movie that foc on Cella Vil om 101 Dalmatians.

Artie is able to be his thentic self and actor John McCrea is happy wh his portrayal of Artie and believ him to be a gay character, but Disney yet aga ma the mistake of not fully lvg to Artie beg an openly gay character. Orka and Flix Star Wars Ristance are two openly gay characters who aren't human and are actually two different speci but are openly a relatnship the seri.

HERE'S HOW 'STRANGE WORLD' TRODUC THE FIRST OUT GAY TEENAGER A DISNEY ANIMATED FILM: 'IT WAS A BETIFUL THG TO BE A PART OF'

Jungle Cise hasn't technilly been released yet, but Disney has been clear that one of the major characters the movie, McGregor Houghton, will be gay.

There's been a lot of ntroversy surroundg the announcement of Houghton beg a gay character. Certa groups are upset at the ia of a children's movie reprentg the LGBTQ+ muny while progrsiv are upset at Jack Whehall's stg, believg a gay actor should be st, and the ia that might be a stereotypil, harmful reprentatn. Viewers may not remember the gay prce om The Prcs Diari 2, and maybe that's bee the movie don't actually show him person.

In early 2017, Disney XD progrsed even more wh portrayals of gay love wh the rtoon Star Vs. Before the live-actn versn of Bety and the Beast me out 2017, director Bill Condon announced an terview that one character would have a gay sp. LeFou, Gaston's right-hand man, would be gay, the director said, g excement and anticipatn om the LGBTQ+ muny.

DISNEY RELEAS ITS GAYT KIDS’ MOVIE YET—AT THE CRAZIT TIME

Cys Goodman om Andi Mack was Disney's first character to ever utter the words, "I'm gay, " 2019. The show's creator and executive producer Terri Msky said that Cys and his story were largely spired by Terri's dghter's iends, who knew that they were gay middle school.

Pixar jt released a new short, aptly tled Out, that foc on a young man named Greg who has a secret: he's gay, and he has a boyiend named Manuel. 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.

DISNEY’S ‘STRANGE WORLD’ TO FEATURE FIRST GAY TEEN ROMANCE ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Pollari said the role was pecially meangful to him bee was siar to his own experience as a gay man. " Advertisement - Contue Readg Below8 Bella ThorneDiree Navarro//Getty ImagAdvertisement - Contue Readg Below9 Raven SymoneJason LaVeris//Getty ImagThe star of 'That's So Raven, ' a Disney Channel staple, officially me out when gay marriage was legalized across the Uned Stat by tweetg "I n fally get married!

Pixar featured a gay ma character a short film on Disney Pl, but Luz is the first bisexual character to make a Disney but on a televisn seri. “I was told by certa Disney learship that I uld not reprent any form of bi or gay relatnship on the channel.

23, the movie also monstrat the Moe Hoe's renewed mment to LGBTQ reprentatn by showsg the first out gay teenager a Disney rtoon feature. That character is Ethan Cla, and he's voiced by out gay edian and actor Jaboie Young-Whe. "For her part, Unn not that her recent remake of Cheaper by the Dozen — which premiered on Disney+ March — featured one of Disney's first live actn gay teens (played by Caylee Blosensk), but says much of that storyle was downplayed the fished film.

DISNEY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ADMS TO ‘GAY AGENDA,’ ‘ADDG QUEERNS’ WHEREVER SHE COULD

Both the 2020 animated feature, Onward, which featured Disney's first self-intified lbian character, and 2022's Lightyear, which featured the stud's first same-sex kiss, were banned Sdi Arabia and other Gulf natns where homosexual nduct is still illegal.

"I had very few openly gay role mols, " said Charlee, 30, who is the stepchild of Roy P.

Charlee's terview one month after Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Chapek apologized to employe for the pany's "silence" amid the passg of Florida's new legislatn, which is nounced by crics as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, after employe anized and wrote letters about the pany's handlg. That latter scriptn has been on my md the feelgs and memori were dug up this week bee I had a chance to watch the new Disney+ film Better Nate Than Ever, which jt may be the most gay-posive and enuragg youth programmg that Disney has ever released. Consirg everythg that’s been the news about Disney, Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, and the disturbg latn of unapologetilly anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric dissemated by GOP policians, uld be argued that ’s the bt time for a movie like this to e out.