Hawthorne Lightyear is famed for beg a gay character a Disney film, but shows like Raven's Home and movi like Eternals have featured LGBTQ+.
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LIGHTYEAR: PIXAR RTOR SAME-SEX KISS FOLLOWG ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL BACKLASH
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' But where's the gay Disney fairy tale? The same-sex kiss first ma headl last month, when Pixar animators spoke out agast Disney an open letter obtaed by Variety, sayg that rporate executiv had mand cuts "om nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn. But was later rtored light of Disney's "Don't Say Gay" ntroversy, when was revealed the pany had donated roughly $200, 000 to Republin policians who supported the bill, which forbids discsns of sexual orient elementary school classrooms.
"Other live-actn Disney films have relegated queer characters to the background, like a blk-and-you'll-miss- kiss between two women "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, " or the "exclively gay moment" of Josh Gad's LeFou dancg wh another man "Bety and the Beast. The pany has taken baby steps over the years to start cludg queer reprentatn s films and TV shows, ually by allowg Pixar to keep the two moms hidn the back or okayg the ia of LeFou beg gay after all. Whether 's two moms at the aquarium wh Dory, a teenage g out story on Disney Channel, or the blk-and-you'll-miss- gay moment Frozen, every one of the characters paved the way for Hawthorne, a queer character Pixar'sLightyearwho will have Disney's first-ever animated same-sex kiss.