Tag: lightyear

Snoop Dogg is “scared to go to the movies,” and it’s not because of weed-based paranoia — it’s the 2022 animated origin story Lightyear. Specifically, the three-year-old movie’s representation of lesbian moms. “What you see is what you see, and they’re putting it everywhere,” Snoop told It’s Giving, a podcast hosted by “self-love guru” and traditional-values proponent Sarah Fontenot, on August 20. He recalled taking his grandson to see Lightyear in the movie theaters and watching a scene where a character has two moms. “They’re like, ‘She had a baby — with another woman,’” he said. “Well, my grandson, in the middle of the movie, is like, ‘Papa Snoop? How she have a baby with a woman? She’s a woman!’” Snoop claimed the problem is that “y’all throwing me in the middle of shit that I don’t have an answer for.” He added, “These are kids. We have to show that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer.” Someone should get Snoop Dogg a copy of And Tango Makes Three.

On August 30, Snoop clarified what he meant in a comment of a Hollywood Unlocked Instagram video. “I was just caught off guard and had no answer for my grandsons all my gay friends no what’s up they been calling me with love 💗 my bad for not knowing the answers for a 6 yr old 😳teach me how to learn I’m not perfect,” he wrote. Gay friends, please step forward.

Following Snoop’s comments, there have been calls to cancel his performance at the Australian Football League finals on September 27. One of those calls is from Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who called Snoop a “slur merchant” and requested the AFL book an Australian artist.

In the scene in question, the character Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba) kisses her wife, Kiko, for less than a second. The kiss led to the movie being banned in 14 countries. Initially, Disney cut the gay kiss from Lightyear, but in the wake of Disney funding politicians who supported Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Pixar employees wrote a letter accusing the company of censoring “overtly gay affection” in its films. “Even if creating LGBTQIA+ content was the answer to fixing the discriminatory legislation in the world, we are being barred from creating it,” the employees said in the statement. Following the letter, Pixar added the scene back into the film.

Since then, Disney and Pixar have removed gay content from films and TV, in line with the current conservative cultural shift that Snoop should be glad to hear about. Pixar reportedly cut any queer representation out of its 2025 movie Elio and made the main character more stereotypically masculine. Disney also cut a trans story line from the streaming show Win or Lose in 2024. Pixar executive Pete Docter told Bloomberg in 2024 that Pixar’s upcoming movies were going to be “less a pursuit of any director’s catharsis and instead speak to a commonality of experience,” widely interpreted as a move away from diversity. Sorry to Lightyear star Chris Evans; homophobia has not yet died out “like dinosaurs.”