The company Disney have decided to cancel previews on their platforms of the Pixar movie Light year and from the series Baymax in Middle Eastfrom a kiss between two female characters and to have characters from the LGBTIQ + community.

The global entertainment giant has decided, after an economic analysis, to cancel the launch of Light year in the region, because the story features a kissing scene between people of the same sex.

While the Disney + series Baymax It won’t even be released, as it includes LGBTIQ + characters.

Both Disney products, which show a marked openness to topics that were taboo in American society years ago, have drawn criticism from censorship entities in the Middle East, which Disney has accepted.

Light year is the protagonist Chris Evans as the space traveler from the Disney animated film toy storyreleased in 1995.

While Disney + Middle East does not show child-focused content with LGBTIQ + references, the platform will still include films such as Doctor Strange and the Crowd of Madnesswhich was banned from the theaters of the Gulf countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, for showing a scene of a few seconds with a couple of women.

In the past year, several Disney films have been censored in the Gulf: Thor: Love and thunder, History of the west side Y Eternaldue to LGBTIQ + scenes and themes.

The Disney Company has decided to access these measures as a platform launch strategy by accepting the standards of countries such as the United Arab Emirates.

From that country, the Media Regulatory Office, under the Ministry of Youth and Culture, had warned via the Twitter account that the film “is not authorized for public screening in UAE cinemas,” due to your violation of content standards of the media in the country.

“The office confirms that all films shown in theaters across the country are subject to monitoring and evaluation prior to their release date to the public, to ensure the security of the content disseminated according to the appropriate age classification ”, the statement continues.

The office did not process and did not respond to questions from the Associated Press. The tweet included an image of the movie’s poster, in which you can see the silhouette of its protagonist, Buzz Lightyear.with a red “no” symbol placed above it.

For their part, the actors of the film rated as disappointing the previous decision of the United Arab Emirates.

“It’s frustrating,” Evans told The Associated Press: “It’s nice to be part of something that’s making social progress, but it’s at this level. bittersweet frustration because, at the same time, there are still places they haven’t reached. ”

And in an interview with the British newspaper, The Guardian went tougher and referred to censorship. “The truth is that those people are idiots. Whenever there has been social progress upon awakening, American history, human history is constant awakening and social growth and that’s what makes us good.

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