The Walt Disney Company reportedly made a conscious effort to make Pixar’s Inside Out 2 “less gay” following the box-office failure of Lightyear, with studio executives blaming the latter movie’s much-discussed same-sex kiss for turning away audiences.
The result: Inside Out 2 was a box-office hit, bringing in more than $652 million domestically this summer.
Multiple sources told IGN that Disney leadership internally put a large part of the blame for Lightyear’s financial failure on a lesbian kiss, which was briefly removed then restored after an internal staff rebellion.
LGBTQ employees at Pixar reportedly sent a letter to Disney leadership, accusing them of censoring “overtly gay affection” at a time where employees were also protesting Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill, which protects public school students from radical gender theory, including transgenderism, and other forms of LGBTQ…
