Does inside out 2 have gay characters

Is Riley from Inside : Maybe one of her friends or teammates can end up being queer, but it feels like Disney will keep playing it safe with Inside Out's Riley and not jeopardize a flagship character that many business segments love

Inside Out 2 is taking the world by storm right now, but after a recent report that one of the characters, Joy, was a part of the LGBTQ+ community, many turned their backs on the box office success. Inside Out 2 could have been the first confirmed instance of a Pixar movie protagonist being LGBTQIA+ if the story committed to Riley being gay.

More about Inside Out 2 Pixar Disney. Swipe for next article. But then, of course, there is the other way of looking at it. Queerness is inherently countercultural. It disrupts and subverts hegemonic social structures — the sort of structures around which huge capitalist conglomerates such as Disney are built.

Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. The alleged confirmation that the character is gay followed the June 14 release of "Inside Out 2," which reportedly lit up global box offices. Millions of children will grow up to be queer adults, and showing them queer characters on screen is a way of helping them believe that their own sexuality is normal and not a source of shame.

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What Inside Out 2’s : A new report on the making of the Pixar hit has claimed that Disney executives demanded the teenage protagonist be made ‘less gay’

It may be that the backlash surrounding Inside Out 2 will have made an impact on Disney. Parents and critics wept before it. Shrugging off any notion of post-pandemic slowdown, the film, still in cinemas, has risen to become the eighth highest-grossing movie of all time.

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Could it not change minds — and, by extension, even save lives?

There is an argument to be made that authentic queer representation — not just films that include queer characters, but films that are made with an authentically queer voice, with a sensibility that refuses to cater to heteronormative audiences — is impossible within the framework of large-scale studio filmmaking.

Even if this representation is flat and insincere, is it not better than no representation at all? Onward features a minor character named Officer Specter who mentions her girlfriend's daughter, and Wade's younger brother in Elemental, Lake, is Pixar's first non-binary character.

Seven years on, things have barely improved. The House of Mouse is far from the only major studio to come up short when it comes to queer representation on screen, but it is the largest and most egregious offender. Meanwhile, the omissions and shortcomings are ignored utterly.

Before going home to his real love interest, his wife. That is to say, if you went into Inside Out 2 hoping that Disney would use its platform to explore the inner life of a queer teenager, then boy, do I have a rickety bridge to sell you.

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