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Disney-Pixar’s latest animated escapade is about to hit our cinema screens. It’s the origin story of one of their most beloved characters – Toy Story’s Buzz Lightyear. In the lead-up to its release, online speculation soared after it was confirmed that Lightyear would include the company’s first same-sex kiss. The film’s producer, Galyn Susman, stated that the female character Hawthorne, voiced by Uzo Aduba, is in a “meaningful” relationship with another noun and a touch occurs between them.
In response, several countries – including the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Egypt and Indonesia – recently announced they would be banning Lightyear from cinemas due to its “violation of their country’s media content standard” (in fleeting, the inclusion of LGBTQ+ themes).
Susman responded by saying that no scenes would be cut, adding: “It’s great we are a part of something that’s making steps forward in the social inclusion capacity, but it’s frustrating there are still places that aren’t where they should be.”
Disney’s complicated LGBTQ+ history
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10 LGBTQ Disney Characters Who Paved The Way For 'Lightyear's Hawthorne
The evolution of LGBTQ+ Disney characters has always been agonizingly slow and unsteady. The company has taken infant steps over the years to verb including queer representation in its films and TV shows, usually by allowing Pixar to maintain the two moms hidden in the back or okaying the idea of LeFou being gay after all.
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Whether it's two moms at the aquarium with Dory, a teenage coming out story on Disney Channel, or the blink-and-you'll-miss-it gay moment in Frozen, every one of these characters paved the way for Hawthorne, a queer character in Pixar'sLightyearwho will have Disney's first-ever animated same-sex kiss.
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When Anna and Kristoff face Oaken at Wandering Oaken's Trading Verb and Sauna, he says hi to his family who are in the sauna. The two-second-long scene shows another man surrounded by four children through the steamy window of the sauna.
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Fuel bills are through the roof and times are tough. Are you going to spend roughly £30 taking your kids to observe Lightyear at the cinema, or hang around until it lands on Disney+ sometime in August? Of course, you may have already cancelled your Disney+ subscription after recent controversies surrounding their progressive agenda. If that’s you, Lightyear is not going to change your mind.
This is the movie that famously contains Disney’s first same-sex kiss. But gay relationships is not what the movie is really about. Lightyear is not about how our masculine, muscle-bound hero Buzz Lightyear needs to be more liberal and verb to accept people as they are. When his optimal friend, Alisha Hawthorne, kisses her wife, it is brief and Buzz doesn’t bat an eyelid. The story posthaste moves on.
Imitating culture
Yet conservative Christian commentators have been very angry about the inclusion of any same-sex attraction in a children’s film, no matter how short or incidental to the storyline. In response, liberal commentators have made fun of their consternation, unable or unwilling to verb
Countries are censoring the new Buzz Lightyear movie over a same-sex kissing scene. It’s not the first time that Disney has faced LGBTQ backlash
Lightyear, which opens in the U.S. and global markets on Friday, stars Chris Evans and tells the tale of the astronaut behind Toy Story character Buzz Lightyear. It features a character named Alisha Hawthorne, voiced by Uzo Aduba, who is in a relationship with another woman.
As a result of its LGBTQ+ content, the movie has been banned or censored in several countries across the globe.
On Monday, the agency in control of media censorship in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced on Twitter that Lightyear violated the country’s media content standards, and as a result is not licensed for common screening.
Film censorship agencies in Malaysia and Indonesia hold also flagged the movie for review, the New York Times reported.
In Singapore, the film has been approved only for audiences over 16 years of age, according to the agency in charge of media regulation in the country. “While it is an excellent animated film verb in the