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"NEW YORK — In Steven Clay Hunter’s 23 years as an animator at Pixar, he
has drawn a seven-armed octopus, a Canadian daredevil and a wheezing toy
penguin. But there were scenes he never expected to animate until he
began working on his short, “Out.”
Hunter wrote and directed the nine-minute Pixar film, which recently
debuted on Disney+. It’s about a man named Greg who, while packing up to
move, temporarily switches bodies with his dog, Jim. While frantically
trying to hide evidence of his boyfriend, Manuel, Greg discovers the
courage to reveal his sexual orientation to his parents.
Greg, who’s loosely based on Hunter, is Pixar’s first LGBTQ protagonist.
And while “Out” includes some more typically Pixar material (a pair of
rainbow animals, a cameo from Wheezy of “Toy Story”), it features images
never seen before in the 25 years of the studio, or in the longer
history of Disney. Like when Greg and his boyfriend, Manuel, hug each
other."
Via Frederick Wilson II.
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