February 24, 2020
Lena Waithe to Voice Disney's 1st Animated Gay Character, Twitter Reacts
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Out actor and writer Lena Waithe is making Disney history: She's lending her voice to the company's first openly gay animated character, BuzzFeed reports. But folks on Twitter aren't exactly lauding the Mouse House.
"Onward," a Pixar film about a "suburban fantasy world" where "two teenage elf brothers embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still magic left" in the world. The film also stars Chris Pratt, Tom Holland, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Octavia Spencer, Ali Wong, Mel Rodriguez, and more.
Waithe will voice Officer Spector, who comes out as gay early on in the film with a line of dialogue: "My girlfriend's daughter got me pulling my hair out," she says, according to BuzzFeed.
Despite the progressive move for LGBTQ inclusion, some people on Twitter weren't huge fans of the new queer character. Find some of the reactions below.
