After initially refusing to comment on Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, the company faced a wave of criticism from employees and consumers. And last year’s Eternals, in which a male character named Phastos has a husband, was banned in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait.ĭisney has recently positioned itself as supportive of LGBTQ rights. Onward, from 2020, which showed a lesbian cyclops police officer that utters the phrase “it gets better,” was banned in several Middle Eastern countries. The live-action Beauty and the Beast, which showed two male characters dancing, was banned in Kuwait when it came out in 2017. Lightyear is not the first Disney film to be censored in other countries for its depiction of gay characters. “This being a children’s cartoon, a significant number of FCP members felt that the overt depiction of same-gender marriage would warrant a higher rating.” context, Singapore is a diverse society where we have multiple sensibilities and viewpoints,” said Cheryl Ng, chair of the country’s Films Consultative Panel (FCP), in a statement. “While it is an excellent animated film set in the U.S. In Singapore, the film has been approved only for audiences over 16 years of age, according to the agency in charge of media regulation in the country. Film censorship agencies in Malaysia and Indonesia have also flagged the movie for review, the New York Times reported.