Lightyear film gay
Countries are censoring the novel 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 female.
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 Joined Arab Emirates (UAE) announced on Twitter that Lightyear violated the country’s media content standards, and as a result is not licensed for public evaluating.
Film censorship agencies in Malaysia and Indonesia contain also flagged the feature for review, the Recent 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 movie set in the
Fuel bills are through the roof and times are difficult. Are you going to spend roughly £30 taking your kids to survey Lightyear at the cinema, or stay until it lands on Disney+ sometime in August? Of course, you may have already cancelled your Disney+ subscription after recent controversies surrounding their evolving agenda. If that’s you, Lightyear is not going to change your mind.
This is the feature that famously contains Disney’s first lgbtq+ kiss. But queer relationships is not what the film is really about. Lightyear is not about how our masculine, muscle-bound hero Buzz Lightyear needs to be more liberal and absorb to accept people as they are. When his foremost friend, Alisha Hawthorne, kisses her wife, it is concise and Buzz doesn’t bat an eyelid. The story rapidly moves on.
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Yet conservative Christian commentators have been very angry about the inclusion of any same-sex attraction in a children’s production, no matter how short or incidental to the storyline. In response, liberal commentators have made fun of their consternation, unable or unwilling to view
Should you let your child view a film that includes a gay kiss? That’s a doubt many Christian parents will be wrestling with as they overhear about the controversy over Disney Pixar’s new release, Lightyear.
Lightyear tells the backstory of popular Toy Story character Buzz Lightyear. But it’s not Buzz that people are talking about, instead it’s his fellow Space Ranger Alisha Hawthorne in the spotlight. In a short sequence that jumps through many years, we overhear of Alisha’s engagement to her partner Kiko, see them hoist a son, celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary and, yes, kiss.
The controversy over Lightyear’s gay peck started well before the film’s release. Reports earlier this year said that the same-sex embrace had been deliberately cut from the film, as, it was claimed, had other moments of ‘overtly gay affection’ in earlier Pixar productions. The kiss was restored to the film in response to a statement from “the LGBTQIA+ employees of Pixar and their allies”.
The film’s emit has reignited the controversy. A number of countries have banned the film and others are ask
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 free, 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 woman 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 brief, the inclusion of Homosexual 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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