So I can’t decide if this news makes me pretty glad or kinda sad, so in the end I’ll go with both. After a lot of wishful thinking on our parts, Disney has now announced the first official LGBTQ animated character in its history. Cue the horns and confetti. Let’s go inclusive representation, let’s go! This historic character appears in the new Pixar film “Onward,” about two brother boy wizards who are trying to bring their late father back to life.
The kinda sad part is this Very Important Milestone apparently is just one scene which features a minor character who casually outs herself on screen and is then never seen or heard from again. That character, played by the ubiquitous Lena Waithe, is a one-eyed Cyclops unicorn lesbian cop – naturally.
While I obviously applaud Pixar and its fathership Disney with finally accepting the reality that us LGBTQ people are just a normal part of life and as such should then naturally be represented in all the animated worlds it creates. But I’m also like, what took you so long, and we’re in just one small scene?
The time for tokenism is long over. Also, seriously Pixar, another movie with exclusively male leads? I love you, but representation matters.
A cop - no surprise there:)
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time in a long time that I’m not interested in a Pixar movie. Probably since Cars 2/3
ReplyDeleteDisney has always had gay representation. Each and every one of the villainesses in every movie was a drag queen. How about the gay villain lion in The Lion King. Not only gay but had a darker mane. Personally not happy with a cyclops unicorn representing.
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