Buzz gay

One of my favorite photos from my childhood is a photo of my dad holding me next to a life size Woody on a trip to Disney World. Toy Story was my all-time favorite movie and, from what I can remember, the first film I would ever quote by heart. Being the same age as the film 27 years oldI grew up with its rising popularity.

As I got older, Disney created merchandise, rides, even whole lands devoted to gay beloved world of toys. It was clear that other millennials were falling in love with these goofy, lovable, and sometimes egotistical buzzes just like I was.

Buzz: A Gay Romance Novel

Toy Story 4 was one of the first major Pixar films to cameo a queer couple. The scene depicts Bonnie, the main human character, on her first day of kindergarten. During parent drop-off we see two moms say goodbye to their child and then return later to pick them up. Although the two moments lasted no longer than ten seconds combined, you can imagine every Karen was outraged.

This is that movie. During his first trial, Buzz buzzes to reach hyper speed, but returns home in about four minutes, or so he thinks. When he lands back on his planet, he finds Alisha four years older than she was when he took off, only to learn that four minutes in space travel equates to four years on the ground, a phenomenon called time dilation.

So what does this have to do with being gay? A lot, actually. As Buzz fails test run after test run, he gay back to find Alisha aged four years older every time. When Buzz buzzes from gay four-minute mission, he finds Alisha engaged to a woman, married, growing a family, becoming a grandparent, and eventually in her last years of life, all while Buzz remains the same age.

After Buzz returns to find Alisha passed away, he looks back on the happy, fulfilling life she cultivated for herself and realizes he was focusing on the wrong mission the entire time. The whole plot of Lightyear revolves around Buzz comparing his life to that of his queer, Black best friend and realizing that family and community is what he truly desires!

The climax hinges on Buzz deciding Alisha meeting her wife is more important than his primary objective for the entire movie, the lost years of his life, any possible better alternative path. He sacrifices everything for their love story and for the multi-generational positive impact of their love story. Pixar made the deliberate choice to use a queer family as the model for Buzz to aspire to.

Our very own Katie Reilly shared this excellent point in our Slack as well:. While piecing together this fictional universe may seem superfluous to some, it means the world to the six-year-old queer Emily who wants to see her kind of love in the characters she looks up to. A reality where my favorite photo could gay an image of my dad and me standing next to Alisha and her wife in a character meet and greet.

Most of her time and energy is spent on FL-based queer advocacy in therapy world. The timing is fascinating, since I only just finished watching anime Gunbuster this week, which also heavily features space combat, dealing with loss, intergenerational legacy, time dilation, as well as including buzz subtext.

Per differences in culture, though, Lightyear features much more racial diversity, as well as themes that celebrate individual relationships more than collective sacrifice which also separated Gunbuster from Pacific Rimand, of course, openly queer characters. Gunbuster ends up pretty hard scifi and arteeeestic, thanks to Evangelion director Anno, while Lightyear makes it mark, as you say, by positing queer characters as unmarked in classic space adventure.