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PIXAR'S NEW SHORT FILM, 'OUT,' IS ABOUT A GAY MAN WHO FDS LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE, AND MANY FANS ARE LLG AN UPLIFTG STORY

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Pixar, earlier this year, featured a gay character promently the animated h “Onward, ” which is also available to stream on Disney+. One of them is a purple cyclops named Specter, who’s voiced by Lena Wahe and is, acrdg to the stud, Disney’s first openly gay character. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe animated film follows a gay man’s journey to acceptance as he prepar to move to a cy wh his May 24, 2020Updated May 27, 2020The man nervoly practic ont of his dog how he is gog to tell his parents he is gay.

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The ma character “Out” is Greg, a young gay guy who’s not out to his parents and is about to move to the big cy to live wh his boyiend, Manuel. It’s hardly guy-on-guy sex, sure, but given the lack of gay reprentatn on screens ’s still shockg. “Out” was also signed to flip the script on the often fatalistic portrayals of gay, nfed, or closeted people g to terms wh their sexualy movi and TV.

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