![]() ![]() The scene then cuts to Baby Dory lost in the ocean. The films opens with Dory as a baby in a tank playing with her parents Charlie, and Jenny. Their journey leads to them a Marine Life Institute where they begin a hilarious and heartwarming search and meet some new friends. ![]() One day when Dory remembers where her parents live, she, Marlin and Nemo head off on an epic quest to find them. The three of them have now become very close friends. In fact, as bad as #OscarsSoWhite has been for not recognizing any actors of color for two consecutive years, the last openly gay actor nominated for an Academy Award was more than a decade ago: Ian McKellen for playing a wizard in 2001’s “Lord of the Rings.In Finding Dory, It's been one year since Dory helped Marlin rescue his son Nemo. For all the talk about the men (or even women) who could play James Bond, there weren’t any headlines about gay actors who could portray him (although Rupert Everett suggested the idea in 1999). When Andrew Garfield suggested that Spider-Man could be gay, Sony Pictures quietly put the lid on that idea - and instead rebooted the character as a high school student. Last February’s “Deadpool,” the lone comic book hero who is pansexual, still only had sex with women. There’s yet to be a gay Marvel star in the “Captain America,” “Iron Man” or “Avengers” franchises. ![]() “Finding Dory” might feature the voice of Ellen DeGeneres, who became the first lesbian TV star to come out of the closet in 1997, but it joins the rest of the summer blockbusters that ignore the LGBT community.īryan Singer used to infuse his “X-Men” films with a gay subtext (the mutants had to “come out” to friends and family), but that’s not a theme of the latest installment. Just last summer, the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in the United States. This seems starkly out of touch with advancements in society for the gay and transgender community. ![]() (Disney and Paramount were the only studios with movies that didn’t feature a single gay character.) Many of those films were lower budget efforts, not the kind of blockbuster productions that have audiences lining up. According to a study from GLAAD, only 22 of 126 studio releases last year featured characters that identified as LGBT. Against a national - and international - conversation about the lack of diversity in Hollywood, gay characters are barely granted speaking roles in movies. ![]()
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