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TopCat8 said:
I just noticed a Pixar short was added to Disney+ called "Out". It is about a relationship between two men, and I've never seen anything that blatant from Disney before. It was really well done, and I hope gay relationships can one day be normalized in cartoons.

Just got a chance to watch it myself. Out was adorable! I was charmed right off when the first thing that happens is a sparkle dog and sparkle cat arrive on the scene via rainbow in a case of tastefully subtle foreshadowing, haha! The painterly animation style was gorgeous and I thought the fantastical elements did the needed work of differentiating an otherwise straightforward coming out story enough to keep it from feeling cliched...and also just made it feel Pixar; accessible to kids and adults alike.

Also helping to keep Out from feeling cliched was the Disney/Pixar happy ending, which remains the exception and not the rule for gay representation in major media. I mean I think there's room and necessity for having all kinds of different endings to these stories in our media because they don't always end happily in real life, but at the same time, we as a community and society need to be able to imagine acceptance and there seems to be a bit of a shortage of such capacity as yet in our media landscape.