Overview

• Snoop Dogg said on the It’s Giving podcast that he felt scared to go to the movies after his grandson asked about a lesbian couple depicted in Pixar’s 2022 film Lightyear.
• Updating his stance, Snoop later wrote on Instagram that he was caught off guard, asked the LGBTQ+ community to teach him, and added, “My bad for not knowing the answers for a 6 yr old.”
• Writer Lauren Gunderson posted that she “created the Lightyear lesbians” while working at Pixar in 2018, calling the choice a small detail with a significant representational impact.
• Gunderson criticized Snoop’s remarks with “He sucks,” said she hopes he “joins the side of Love,” and clarified she contributed additional material and had very little to do with the final script.
• The film shows Buzz Lightyear’s friend Alisha Hawthorne married to a woman, with a kiss that was initially cut and later reinstated after internal controversy and employee pushback, and the movie faced bans in several countries.