The upcoming animated film Onward will feature the first-ever openly LGBT character in a Disney/Pixar children’s film.
The movie, which releases in theaters March 6, is set in a fantasy world and tells the story of two teenage elf boys who go on a magical road adventure to meet the father they never knew. It is during this road quest that a lesbian police officer named Officer Specter – who is a Cyclops – enters the scene.
When Specter and her police sidekick Officer Gore pull over a car, the male passenger complains that his girlfriend’s children distracted him. Specter then says, “My girlfriend’s daughter got me pulling my hair out.”
Viewers never see Specter’s girlfriend or her daughter – and Specter is a secondary character – but the moment nevertheless is historical. The LGBT media outlet Advocate calls Officer Specter the “first self-identifying LGBTQ character” ever in a Disney or Pixar children’s film.
The 2016 Disney/Pixar film Finding Dory included a brief scene with two women walking with a stroller, but the characters never spoke, and filmmakers neither confirmed nor denied their identification. The 2017 live-action Disney movie Beauty and the Beast briefly showed two men dancing, although – again – neither spoke about LGBT orientation.
The filmmakers behind Onward confirmed that Specter is lesbian.
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