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New short film 'Out' features Pixar's first gay main character - NBC News
May 22, 2020 45 secs

Walt Disney Studios — the parent of Pixar and a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company — has lagged behind all other major film studios in terms of on-screen LGBTQ representation since 2012, according to LGBTQ media advocacy group GLAAD.

The studio, however, has been stepping up its LGBTQ representation recently by including LGBTQ storylines in films including "Avengers: Endgame" and "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker." It also recently made history with "Onward," an animated film that features a lesbian character voiced by Lena Waithe

A number of upcoming Disney projects are also slated to include LGBTQ characters, including "The Eternals" and "Thor: Love and Thunder." In March, Bob Chapek, CEO of the Walt Disney Company, shut down a critic who claimed that the company is losing money because its products "promote LGBT ideology." Chapek stated that the company wants "to tell stories that our audience wants to hear that reflects their lives."

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