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Animated Love Pixar tackles coming out as gay in new Disney+ short, Out. By Rhuaridh Marr
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IXAR’S NEW SHORT FILM OUT FEATURES THE ANI“These films are unlike anything we’ve ever done at Pixar,” mation studio’s first gay lead character. The nine-minute Pixar president Jim Morris said in a statement, “providing an film, released last week on streaming service Disney+, is opportunity to unlock the potential of individual artists and part of Pixar Animation Studios’ SparkShorts their inventive filmmaking approaches on a program, which is intended to “discover new smaller scale than our normal fare.” Watch the Trailer storytellers [and] explore new storytelling Out also makes history as the first producfor “Out” techniques,” Deadline reports. tion from Pixar to feature a gay lead character. Written and directed by Steven Hunter, Out focuses on The studio has offered background characters and minor repreGreg, a young gay man preparing to move in with his boyfriend sentation in its previous films, including a lesbian police officer Manuel. It’s a matter complicated by his parents dropping by for in Onward, released earlier this year. a surprise visit, forcing Greg to deal with coming out to them The studio was also the subject of a boycott by anti-LGBTQ probefore they uncover the truth behind his move. test group One Million Moms, which responded with typical rage “With some help from his precocious pup, and a little bit of over two scenes in Toy Story 4 depicting a child with two moms. magic, Greg might learn that he has nothing to hide,” the film’s official description notes. Out is available now on streaming service Disney+. MAY 28, 2020 • METROWEEKLY.COM
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