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Disney Censors Same-Sex Affection in Pixar Films, According to Letter From Employees
In a statement attributed to “the LGBTQIA+ employees of Pixar, and their allies” obtained by Variety, employees of the animation studio allege that Disney corporate executives have demanded cuts from “nearly every moment of overtly gay affection… regardless of when there is complain from both the creative teams and executive leadership at Pixar.”
The stunning claim is part of a wider reaction to the company-wide memo sent to Disney employees by CEO Bob Chapek on Monday regarding its response to the recently passed legislation in Florida known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. In the memo, Chapek states that the “biggest impact” the business can make “in creating a more inclusive world is through the inspiring content we produce.”
According to the Pixar letter, that claim is at odds with employees’ encounter of trying to create content with same-sex affection approved by Disney executives.
“We at Pixar include personally witnessed stunning stories, full of diverse characters, appear back from Disney corporat
Pixar's 'Elio' Downplayed LGBTQ+ Elements After Creative Overhaul
Pixar's latest film, Elio, has made headlines, but for all the wrong reasons. The sci-fi animated family production earned the studio's lowest opening weekend of all time with just $21 million. Despite solid reviews from critics, the clip hasn't quite performed up to the Pixar common and may not contain the long legs at the box office that Elemental did back in 2023. Elio had a long road to the big screen, having been delayed a whole year, and an initial teaser trailer from 2023 that showed a different clip than what audiences saw. The Hollywood Reporter has detailed an extensive account of what happened behind the scenes of Elio, and it certainly isn't good.
The report stated that Elio was initially portrayed as a queer-coded ethics, although the movie was never intended to be a coming-out story. Various changes made by Pixar leadership led to this being downplayed and all but removed from the final film, including pictures on Elio's wall of potential male crushes. "[The character] Elio was just so cute and so much fun and had so much personality, and now he feels much more generic to me,”
10 LGBTQ Disney Characters Who Paved The Way For 'Lightyear's Hawthorne
The evolution of LGBTQ+ Disney characters has always been agonizingly lethargic and unsteady. The corporation has taken baby steps over the years to start including queer visibility in its films and TV shows, usually by allowing Pixar to retain the two moms disguised in the back or okaying the idea of LeFou being gay after all.
RELATED: 'Lightyear': Disney Restores Scrapped Gay Kiss Tracking Backlash
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 lgbtq+ character in Pixar'sLightyearwho will have Disney's first-ever animated same-sex kiss.
Oaken And His Family (Frozen, 2013)
When Anna and Kristoff meet Oaken at Wandering Oaken's Trading Post 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.
While the Frozen filmmakers have never addressed this scene, it's an reliable assumption to assume the man in the sauna is
Is Priya Queer? Turning Red May Possess Pixar's 2nd Homosexual Character
Turning Red did many things differently from past Pixar movies, and it might have the studio’s second LGBTQ+ ethics thanks to Priya, one of Mei’s best friends. Inclusivity and representation of the LGBTQ+ collective in film and TV have been highly debated topics in recent years, and even though many writers, directors, and studios own worked towards finer representation of this community, there’s still a long way to go. Family-oriented studios like Disney and Pixar hold also worked towards this (though not always successfully), and Turning Red might be the latest example of Gay representation in a family-friendly movie.
Directed by Domee Shi, Turning Red follows Meilin "Mei" Lee (Rosalie Chiang), a 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian student who one day discovers that, whenever she gets too excited or stressed, she turns into a enormous red panda, but she can shift back if she becomes calm. This transformation is a family curse and it can be contained by executing a special ritual on one specific night, but that night coincides with the concert of Mei’s favorite young man band, and to further complicate ever
Pixar employees claim Disney censors LGBTQ love in its films: 'Every moment of overtly gay affection is cut'
As debate about Florida's infamous 'Don't Say Gay' Bill escalates, some employees of Disney's animation performance house Pixar have claimed that the corporate heads of their parent organization Disney routinely censor homosexual stories. A letter joint by unnamed Pixar employees states that protests about this censorship have gone unheeded. Disney or Pixar have yet to officially react to the allegations. (Also read: Turning Red review: Well-made film on growing up that gets representation right)
The letter was sent in response to a memo sent by Disney CEO Bob Chapek earlier this week. The memo addressed the controversial Florida bill, which has been criticised by many as discriminatory towards the LGBTQ community.
As per a report by Entertainment Weekly, the letter was signed by leadership from the LGBTQIA+ Employees of Pixar & Their Allies. It stated, "We at Pixar have personally witnessed lovely stories, full of diverse characters, come back from Disney corporate reviews shaved down to crumbs of what they once were." The letter further added how protests from the